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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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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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83  [18]: https://code.google.com/p/openpub/wiki/OPDS 83  [18]: https://code.google.com/p/openpub/wiki/OPDS