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Hello! There are lots of ways you can work with the Open Library system, and the [ol-tech mailing list][1] is a great place to ask questions. |
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Welcome to Open Library's Developer Center. |
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# Accessing Open Library Data |
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Open Library offers free public [APIs][2] and [Monthly Bulk Data Dumps] for accessing catalog data. |
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## [APIs][2] |
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* [Covers](docs/api/covers) |
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* [Books](docs/api/books) |
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* [API Sandbox](/api_sandbox) |
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## Monthly Data Dumps |
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- [Bulk Download Open Library Bibliographic Data](data#bulk_download) |
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## API Client Libraries |
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- [The official Open Library Client (Python)][https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary-client] |
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- [Ruby interface for the API](https://github.com/jayfajardo/openlibrary), written by Jay Fajardo |
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## Friends Using Open Library APIs |
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If you are using Open Library's [[APIs|OL APIs]], please email openlibrary@archive.org and let us know about how you are using them. |
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- [**OpenBook Wordpress Plugin**][1] by [John Miedema](http://johnmiedema.ca)<br />Use the Open Library JSON API to inserts a book cover, title, author, and publisher in WordPress blogs. |
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- [**Evergreen OpenLibrary added content plug-in**](http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/browser/trunk/Open-ILS/src/perlmods/OpenILS/WWW/AddedContent/OpenLibrary.pm) by [David Christensen] (mailto:david.a.christensen@gmail.com) and [Dan Scott] (mailto:dscott@laurentian.ca)<br />Uses the OpenLibrary JSON API to display book covers and tables of contents as part of the item display in the [Evergreen open-source library system](http://evergreen-ils.org). |
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- [**Link to full text**](http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b386411) by [Ted Lawless] (mailto:lawlesst@gmail.com) <br /> Uses the OpenLibrary JSON API to dynamically insert links to full text titles into a library OPAC. |
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# [Contributing to Open Library](https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/wiki) |
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## [Getting Started](https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) |
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- [Set up a development instance of Open Library](https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary#installation) |
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- [Github Issue Tracker](https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues) ([old issue tracker](https://bugs.launchpad.net/openlibrary) on launchpad) |
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- [Git Cheat Sheet: Committing changes to github.com/openlibrary/openlibrary](https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/wiki/Git-Cheat-Sheet) (previously [/dev/docs/committing]) |
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## Writing Bots |
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- [Writing a Bot for Open Library](https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary-bots#openlibrary-bots) ([legacy bot docs](/dev/docs/bots)) |
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### About the Technology |
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Open Library is powered by [Infogami][4], a clean, simple wiki application framework built on [web.py][5]. Unlike other wikis, Infogami has the flexibility to handle different classes of data, including structured data. That makes it the perfect platform for Open Library. |
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Open Library is powered by [Infogami][4], a clean, simple wiki application framework built on [web.py][5]. Unlike other wikis, Infogami has the flexibility to handle different classes of data, including structured data. That makes it the perfect platform for Open Library. |
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Open Library also uses a text-to-HTML formatting language [Markdown][7], created by John Gruber. We also use the handy [WMD][8] Markdown WYSIWYG editor. |
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Open Library also uses a text-to-HTML formatting language [Markdown][7], created by John Gruber. We also use the handy [WMD][8] Markdown WYSIWYG editor. |
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Special thanks to [Browserstack][9] for cross browser compatibility testing. |
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**Developer Notes & Blogs** |
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- [Current documentation pages](https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/wiki) |
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- [Main older documentation page](https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs) & [API Documentation][2] |
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- [Ruby interface for the API](https://github.com/jayfajardo/openlibrary), written by Jay Fajardo |
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- [Using covers][3] |
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- [Set up a development instance of Open Library](https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary#installation) |
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- [Committing changes to github.com/openlibrary/openlibrary](/dev/docs/committing) |
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- [Writing a Bot for Open Library](/dev/docs/bots) |
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- [Using the Internet Archive BookReader](/dev/docs/bookreader) |
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- [Archive.org book URLs](/dev/docs/bookurls) |
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- [In-Library lending tech notes](/dev/docs/inlibrary) |
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- [Github Issue Tracker](https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues), [old issue tracker](https://bugs.launchpad.net/openlibrary) on launchpad |
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- Blogs by current and former devs: [Gio](http://gio.blog.archive.org/category/openlibrary/), [Raj](http://raj.blog.archive.org/tag/openlibrary/), [Anand](http://anand.blog.archive.org/) |
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**Data** |
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- [Bulk Download Open Library Bibliographic Data](data#bulk_download) |
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- [Archive.org Interfaces](/dev/docs/ia) to publicly-accessible books and updates |
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**Infogami** |
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- [Infogami Developer Tutorial](/dev/docs/infogami) |
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- [Infogami Developer Tutorial](/dev/docs/infogami) |
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### Open Library APIs in the Wild |
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Open Library graciously uses [Browserstack][9] for cross browser compatibility testing, Github for hosting our public code repository, and Travis CI + Github Actions. |
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If you are a user of [[api|OL APIs]], please add an entry here to let us know about how you are using it. |
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- [**OpenBook Wordpress Plugin**][1] by [John Miedema](http://johnmiedema.ca)<br />Use the Open Library JSON API to inserts a book cover, title, author, and publisher in WordPress blogs. |
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[1]: http://johnmiedema.ca/openbook-wordpress-plugin/ |
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- [**Evergreen OpenLibrary added content plug-in**](http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/browser/trunk/Open-ILS/src/perlmods/OpenILS/WWW/AddedContent/OpenLibrary.pm) by [David Christensen] (mailto:david.a.christensen@gmail.com) and [Dan Scott] (mailto:dscott@laurentian.ca)<br />Uses the OpenLibrary JSON API to display book covers and tables of contents as part of the item display in the [Evergreen open-source library system](http://evergreen-ils.org). |
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- [**Link to full text**](http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b386411) by [Ted Lawless] (mailto:lawlesst@gmail.com) <br /> Uses the OpenLibrary JSON API to dynamically insert links to full text titles into a library OPAC. |
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