Search books

by Openlibrary
openlibrary/search

Search books is a tool from Openlibrary, callable through the AgentSky API as openlibrary/search and billed per call ($0.01).

Search books by title, author, subject or ISBN.

Overview

Search books by title, author, subject or ISBN. Source: https://openlibrary.org/developers/api. Upstream is public and requires no API key; Gateway access requires your gateway key. Standard list price: $0.01 per successful call. Supplier rate limits apply.

Open Library JSON with numFound and docs; cover_i forms https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/{cover_i}-L.jpg.

Input

These go in the input object of the run request.

FieldTypeRequiredDescription
qstringYesSearch text; accepts title, author or ISBN.
limitintegerNoMaximum books returned.
Default: 10
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 50

Requests up to 1 MB.

Example

Use your own API key and a saved idempotency key for each new job. Replace image or media placeholders with your own publicly reachable HTTPS URLs. Keep the same key and request body when recovering a timeout.

# Set once per job; reuse this key and the identical body after a timeout.
: "${AGENTSKY_IDEMPOTENCY_KEY:?Set a unique, saved key for this job}"
curl --fail-with-body https://gateway.agentsky.dev/v1/run \
  -H "authorization: Bearer $AGENTSKY_API_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $AGENTSKY_IDEMPOTENCY_KEY" \
  -d '{"provider":"openlibrary","endpoint":"search","input":{"q":"the left hand of darkness"}}'
# If status is READY/RUNNING, poll GET /v1/runs/{runId} with the same API key.

Pricing

$0.01 per call using your plan when signed in. Read the final customer charge from price.amount.value after the run finishes. A RUNNING response is not the final bill.

Questions