@skeems/openlibrary

Read-only Open Library adapter for skeem.

adapter: openlibrary
connection:
  url: https://openlibrary.org

No authentication; a descriptive User-Agent is sent.

Tier: Read

Collections: works, editions, authors, keyed by bare Open Library ids (OL2163649W / OL27297031M / OL272947A). Path-prefixed keys (/works/OL…) are accepted on input and stripped everywhere on output.

skeem get authors OL272947A --json                     # Douglas Adams
skeem get works OL2163649W --json
skeem find works --where title="Hitchhiker's Guide" --json
skeem find authors --where name="Douglas Adams" --json
skeem find editions --where isbn=9780261103569 --json  # ISBN lookup

externalIds

Shared vocabulary — see docs/reference/external-ids.md:

• authors expose remote_ids: wikidata, viaf, isni, imdb, musicbrainz_artist, goodreads_author, lc_naf, librarything, amazon (unknown keys pass through as-is).
• editions expose isbn_10/isbn_13 (normalized), oclc, lccn, and identifiers (goodreads_book, …).

Notes

• Edition records are fetched via /books/{id}.json (Open Library's path for editions); ISBN lookups go through /isbn/{isbn}.json and follow the redirect. A missing ISBN returns an empty find result, not an error.
• Merged records (HTTP 200 with a /type/redirect body) are followed one hop.
• ISBNs are normalized: hyphens/spaces stripped, X uppercased, and all-digit values shorter than 10 left-padded (the CLI's number coercion eats leading zeros — --where isbn=0261103563 still works).
• --sort is unsupported (validation error); works/authors search supports --limit/--offset.

Writes are rejected as read-only.