Overview
Summary	Library data access
Category	Reference
Tags	reference books
Date Added	2008-05-07
Description	From their site: One web page for every book ever published. It's a lofty, but achievable, goal. To build it, we need hundreds of millions of book records, a brand new database infrastructure for handling huge amounts of dynamic information, a wiki interface, multi-language support, and people who are willing to contribute their time, effort, and book data. To date, we have gathered about 30 million records (13.4 million are available through the site now), and more are on the way. A project of the Internet Archive.
API Home Page	http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api
Latest API News	Open Library API: Cataloging 13 Million Books
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Protocol
Protocols	REST
Data Formats	JSON
Service Endpoint	http://www.openlibrary.org/api
Functionality
API Groups	Things, Objects
Example API Methods	/things
Client Install Required	No
Security
Authentication Model	None
SSL Support	No
Read-only Without Login	Yes
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Signup Requirements	None
Developer Key Required	No
Account with Service Required	No
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