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Search and access book metadata via the Open Library API
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# Open Library API
## Overview
Open Library (by the Internet Archive) catalogs every book ever published — 40M+ editions, 20M+ unique works. The API provides book search, ISBN/OCLC lookup, cover images, and reading access for 2M+ borrowable ebooks. Particularly useful for monograph discovery, edition tracking, and bibliographic verification. Free, no authentication required.
## API Endpoints
### Search Books
```bash
# Full-text search
curl "https://openlibrary.org/search.json?q=machine+learning&limit=20"
