mcp-open-library

8enSmith/mcp-open-library

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A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for the Open Library API that enables AI assistants to search for book and author information.

Tools

Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions

get_book_by_title

Search for book information by title.

get_authors_by_name

Search for author information by name.

get_author_info

Get detailed information for a specific author using their Open Library Author Key.

get_author_photo

Get the URL for an author's photo using their Open Library Author ID (OLID).

get_book_cover

Get the URL for a book's cover image using a specific identifier (ISBN, OCLC, LCCN, OLID, or ID).

get_book_by_id

Get detailed book information using a specific identifier (ISBN, LCCN, OCLC, or OLID).

Prompts

Interactive templates invoked by user choice

No prompts

Resources

Contextual data attached and managed by the client

No resources