# Open Library Author Search via Suverse Proxy

> Open Library Author Search via Suverse Proxy is a paid API for AI agents from proxy.suverse.io, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Searches Open Library for authors by name and returns matching author records including name, birth date, and work counts — no API key required.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://proxy.suverse.io/v1/data/suverse-openlibrary-authors
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/open-library-author-search-via-suverse-proxy-3616ed81
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_bjS8rMLZQBf49Rq89varE

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability open-library-author-search-via-suverse-proxy-3616ed81 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you look up the author Ursula K. Le Guin on Open Library and tell me her birth date and how many works she has listed?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to resolve or enrich author identity data without managing an API key, especially in agentic pipelines that need pay-per-call billing via x402 USDC micropayments. Ideal for bibliographic enrichment, citation verification, or disambiguating author names against the Open Library catalogue. Prefer over direct Open Library API calls when you need a metered, agent-friendly wrapper with predictable per-call pricing.

## Known failure modes

- No matching authors found for an obscure or misspelled name — returns empty results
- Ambiguous name matches many authors — returns multiple records requiring further disambiguation
- Open Library upstream unavailable — proxy may return a 5xx error
- Malformed request body (missing required fields) — returns 400 validation error
- Payment not processed (x402 protocol failure) — returns 402 Payment Required

## How this service works

Search Open Library authors by name, no key. Returns matching authors with name, birth date, and work counts. For AI agents resolving author identities.

## Output

Returns a list of matching author records from Open Library, each containing the author's canonical name, birth date, and a count of their works in the Open Library catalogue.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "properties": {}
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST",
      "PUT",
      "PATCH"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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