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Suverse Open Library Book Search
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Suverse Open Library Book Search 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).
Search the Open Library catalog by title, author, or keyword and return matching works with metadata including title, author, first publish year, and edition counts.
Price / call$0.002
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How this service works
Search Open Library books by title, author, or keyword, no key. Returns matching works with title, author, first publish year, and edition counts. For AI agents in books, research, and library use cases.
Output
A list of matching works from the Open Library catalog, each containing the book title, author name(s), first publish year, and total edition count. Results are ranked by relevance to the search query.
Example use cases
Finding a classic novel's publication history
“Can you search Open Library for '1984' and tell me when it was first published and how many editions exist?”
Researching books by a specific author
“Look up all the books by Ursula K. Le Guin in the Open Library catalog — I want the titles, years, and edition counts.”
Topic-based book discovery for research
“Search Open Library for books about 'quantum mechanics' and give me a list of matching works with their authors and first publish years.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://proxy.suverse.io/v1/data/suverse-openlibrary-searchWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need quick, no-auth bibliographic lookups against the Open Library catalog — especially for title searches, author bibliographies, publication year verification, or edition counts. Prefer it over paid book APIs when cost-sensitivity matters and Open Library's coverage (primarily English-language works) is sufficient. Ideal for research assistants, reading list builders, and library-themed agents.
Side effects
- No results returned for obscure or misspelled queries
- Ambiguous author names may return unrelated works
- Open Library upstream unavailability causing proxy errors
- Very common keywords may return noisy or irrelevant results
- Non-English titles may have limited coverage
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
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| inputrequired | object | |
| output | object |
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