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  • Unhooking from Amazon Ebooks
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jun 2025
    There's also OpenLibrary by the Internet Archive:

    https://openlibrary.org/

  • πŸ“š Open Source Contribution (Day 1)
    2 projects | dev.to | 25 May 2025
    Website: openlibrary.org
  • Technische Universitat Chemnitz FTP Server
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Mar 2025
    fwrite("https://openlibrary.org",1,23,yyout);
  • Show HN: I built a modern Goodreads alternative
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Mar 2025
    - https://joinbookwyrm.com

    I was actually trying to determine the best free source of metadata for books. I was hoping for something like MusicBrainz.

    The best I could find seemed to be https://openlibrary.org. There is https://isbndb.com, but it is paid.

  • Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025)
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Feb 2025
    Thanks for letting me know. The link is working for me even in a private window. Not sure why that's happening. As an alternative you can visit https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/pulls and put the search as "is:pr author:RayBB is:merged"
  • Getting to Two Million Users as a One Woman Dev Team
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Dec 2024
    OpenLibrary has a pretty solid API that I've been using for a bit now. It returns metadata as well as over images.

    https://openlibrary.org/

    https://openlibrary.org/search.json?title=project%20hail%20m...

  • Internet Archive: Open Library
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Apr 2024
  • Ask HN: Anyone looking for contributors for their open source projects
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Mar 2024
    I'd like to make a pitch for Openlibrary.org the free online library from Internet Archive that includes a fulltext search of millions of books.

    I've been volunteering with them on and off for several years and it's always a lovely experience. Their backend is python and frontend mostly from python templates and some Vue for librarian stuff.

    Every Tuesday they have a call on Zoom that everyone is welcome to join to share what they're working on, ask for help, and generally chat a bit. It's a great time.

    Depending on what you're interested in there's a lot to do from helping build import pipelines for more book entries, writing bots to cleanup data, Performance improvements, better documenting public APIs, etc

    I'm currently slowly working on a wikidata integration for their authors page. We also could use some help upgrading to Vue 3, mentors for Google summer of code would be helpful, find of ML projects needing help, moving away from old jQuery libraries, etc.

    They can be quite responsive to PRs too like I blogged about here: https://blog.rayberger.org/idea-to-merged-in-less-than-30-mi...

    For example, here's a small issue that could use some help on the python side: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/8928

  • Building an Open Source Decentralized E-Book Search Engine
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Mar 2024
    OpenLibrary does provide search access to full texts. For example: https://openlibrary.org/search/inside?q=%22institutional+thi...

    It is open source and they're always looking for contributors. I think they'd especially welcome help improving search!

    https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/

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