Librario

Important

The repository for this project has been moved to SourceHut.

Librario, a play on the word librarian, is a simple book metadata aggregation API written in Go. It fetches information about books from multiple sources¹, merges everything intelligently, and then saves it all to a PostgreSQL database for future lookups.

You can think of it as a data source, or a knowledgeable companion that can provide comprehensive book information for online booksellers, libraries, book-related startups, bookworms, and more.

Demo

A pre-alpha build of this project is available at api.librario.dev².

curl \
  --silent \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer librario_ARbmrp1fjBpDywzhvrQcByA4sZ9pn7D5HEk0kmS34eqRcaujyt0enCZ' \
  'https://api.librario.dev/v1/book/9780345391803' \
  | jq .

Footnotes

1. Currently ISBNDB, Google Books, and Hardcover. ↩

2. The demo is running on a single VPS and is likely to break at random times, so, obviously, don't rely on it. ↩