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Open Library offers free, public **[Web APIs][2]** and **[Monthly Bulk Data Dumps](/data)** for accessing book and author catalog data. Open Library maintains an [official (Python) Client Library](https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary-client) for accessing data and [writing bots](https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary-bots#openlibrary-bots). The are also unofficial client libraries written in [Ruby](https://github.com/jayfajardo/openlibrary) and [Elixir](https://github.com/nithinbekal/openlibrary). |
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Open Library offers free, public **[Web APIs][2]** and **[Monthly Bulk Data Dumps](/data)** for accessing book and author catalog data. |
