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2 [Click here](/developers/dumps) to browse monthly bulk data dumps of Open Library's books, authors, and subjects catalog. 3 Open Library provides dumps of all its records in JSON format. If you want to download everything, please use this instead of our [API][8].
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5 See [Open Library Data Dumps](/developers/dumps) documentation for details.
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10 This page is mainly about *sending* data into Open Library. If you're curious about getting data back out in something other than a dump of the entire dataset, [check out our API][5].
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34 We are also analyzing relationships between works (example: all of these editions of Tom Sawyer are all editions the same conceptual work). From this we can add relationships to each object and create new objects (like works). This process is known in the library world as "FRBRization". See [https://frbr.org][7] for more information. <a name="downloads"> </a> 36 We are also analyzing relationships between works (example: all of these editions of Tom Sawyer are all editions the same conceptual work). From this we can add relationships to each object and create new objects (like works). This process is known in the library world as "FRBRization". See [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_Requirements_for_Bibliographic_Records][7] for more information. <a name="downloads"> </a>
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39 Open Library provides dumps of all its records in JSON format. If you want to download everything, please use this instead of our [API][8].
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41 See [Open Library Data Dumps](/developers/dumps) documentation for details.
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43 We're looking forward to making the API more flexible so you don't have to download the whole thing in chunks.
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74  [6]: https://archive.org/account/signup 74  [6]: https://archive.org/account/signup
75  [7]: https://frbr.org 69  [7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_Requirements_for_Bibliographic_Records
76  [8]: https://upstream.openlibrary.org/developers/api 76  [8]: https://upstream.openlibrary.org/developers/api
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83  [18]: https://code.google.com/p/openpub/wiki/OPDS 83  [18]: https://code.google.com/p/openpub/wiki/OPDS