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Open Library Author Bibliography Scraper

Resolve author names to their full Open Library bibliography: works list with first-publish year, edition count, subjects, and cover URLs. Returns bio, birth/death dates, external IDs (VIAF, Wikidata, ISNI), and alternate names. For literary databases, recommendation engines, and RAG pipelines.

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Open Library Author Bibliography Scraper API through CLI

The Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use Open Library Author Bibliography Scraper 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

Other API clients include:

Open Library Author Bibliography Scraper API in Python

Open Library Author Bibliography Scraper API in JavaScript

Open Library Author Bibliography Scraper OpenAPI definition

Open Library Author Bibliography Scraper API

Open Library Scraper

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Open Library Books Scraper

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Pierrick McD0nald

Open Library Book Intelligence

benthepythondev/book-intelligence

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ben

Open Library Scraper — Books, Authors & Editions

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