@pipeworx/bookbrainz
Connect: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/bookbrainz/mcp · Install: one-click buttons
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-grouplookup(type, bbid, includes?)— fetch a single entity by BookBrainz UUIDbrowse(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.
Tools
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browse— Browse entities of a type filtered by a related entity. e.g. browse editions by work, works by author. -
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 -
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