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Search the Internet Archive's Open Library and get flat book rows — title, first author, first publish year, editions and ISBN.

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Open Library Search — Books by Title, Author or Subject API through CLI

The Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use Open Library Search — Books by Title, Author or Subject locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install Apify CLI

Using installation script (macOS/Linux):

$curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash

Using installation script (Windows):

$irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex

Using Homebrew:

$brew install apify-cli

Using npm:

$npm install -g apify-cli

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Open Library Search — Books by Title, Author or Subject API in Python

Open Library Search — Books by Title, Author or Subject API in JavaScript

Open Library Search — Books by Title, Author or Subject OpenAPI definition

Open Library Search — Books by Title, Author or Subject API

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