I recently discovered the https://openlibrary.org/ by The Internet Archive. On the face of it, their "about" page[1] sounds appealing (not least because it resonates with my open source values):
One web page for every book ever published. It's a lofty but achievable goal.
To build Open Library, we need hundreds of millions of book records, a wiki interface, and lots of people who are willing to contribute their time and effort to building the site.
To date, we have gathered over 20 million records from a variety of large catalogs as well as single contributions, with more on the way.
Open Library is an open project: the software is open, the data are open, the documentation is open, and we welcome your contribution. Whether you fix a typo, add a book, or write a widget--it's all welcome. We have a small team of fantastic programmers who have accomplished a lot, but we can't do it alone!
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They also seem to provide an API[2].
For an invite, please send me an email at [email protected] or go to: https://openlibrary.org/volunteer
# APIs & Data Dumps
- https://openlibrary.org/developers/api
- https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api/books
- https://openlibrary.org/developers/dumps monthly data dumps for if you need bulk access and the APIs are not enough.
# Spread the word
Also, if you want to help raise awareness of this resource, please help us get the word out on twitter!
1. https://twitter.com/openlibrary/status/1338185940469051392
2. https://twitter.com/openlibrary/status/1338186553915367425
# Issues
Thank you all for helping us discover some issues with our goodreads importer and search (recently migrated to Python3 + thanks @cdrini et al for these fast bug fixes! If you notice an problem, please help open an issue here: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/new/ch...
# Learn More
- https://archive.org/details/openlibrary-tour-2020/openlibrar... if you want to learn more about Open Library, here's a short intro vid.
- https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary if you want to follow on github.