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Book Search (Open Library) MCP Server

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Book Search (Open Library) is answering right now. Last checked 6 min ago. It exposes 2 tools.

Search books and authors across Open Library, the Internet Archive open catalog.

Uptime history 5 hours of history
5 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
18 of 18 checks
2
Tools
read from the server
283 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 6 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add book-search --transport http https://invokera.com/r/book-search
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "book-search": {
      "url": "https://invokera.com/r/book-search"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.book-search]
url = "https://invokera.com/r/book-search"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "book-search": {
      "url": "https://invokera.com/r/book-search"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "book-search": {
      "url": "https://invokera.com/r/book-search"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 2

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

authors
search_authors
Search authors by name. Returns author records (name, birth date, top work, work count) matching the query. Returns: Matching author records..
books
search_books
Search books by keyword. Full-text search across titles, authors and subjects. Keep "fields" small to avoid huge responses. Returns: Matching book records..

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://invokera.com/r/book-search streamable-http answering 294 ms 6 min ago

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Book Search (Open Library) — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Book Search (Open Library) do?
It exposes 2 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: search_authors, search_books. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Book Search (Open Library) working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 18 of 18 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 283 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Book Search (Open Library)?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Book Search (Open Library) need an API key?
No. Book Search (Open Library) completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 2 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Book Search (Open Library)?
It answers our handshake in 283 ms on average, which is faster than 50% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.