@pipeworx/bookbrainz

Connect: https://pipeworx.io/mcp — every tool in the catalog, including @pipeworx/bookbrainz’s. Install: one-click buttons

No MCP client? Skip the connection: POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_packs {"query":"..."} to find a tool below, GET /v1/tools/<name> for its schema, POST the same URL with arguments for the data — see For AI agents.

Tools: 3

BookBrainz MCP — open book metadata database run by the MetaBrainz Foundation (sister project to MusicBrainz). No auth.

Tools

• search(query, type, limit?, offset?) — search any entity type: work / edition / author / publisher / series / edition-group
• lookup(type, bbid, includes?) — fetch a single entity by BookBrainz UUID
• browse(type, ...) — list works/editions/authors filtered by relationships

Data source

https://api.bookbrainz.org/ — public REST + JSON. Coverage is much smaller than Open Library or Google Books but it’s the canonical home for open editions / works for Wikidata-style data modeling.

Tools

• search — Search BookBrainz (MetaBrainz open book database) for works, editions, authors, publishers, series, or edition-groups by free-text query. Returns matching entity records with their BookBrainz UUIDs (b
• lookup — Fetch a single BookBrainz entity (work, edition, author, publisher, series, or edition-group) by its UUID (bbid), with optional sub-resources (aliases, relationships, identifiers) via the includes par
• browse — Browse entities of a type filtered by a related entity. e.g. browse editions by work, works by author.