BookBrainz

live BooksResearch

Open book metadata DB from MetaBrainz (sister of MusicBrainz). Works, editions, authors, publishers, series. Keyless.

3 tools
0ms auth
free tier 50 calls/day

Tools

lookup required: type, bbid

Fetch a single entity by BookBrainz UUID.

Parameters
Name Type Description
type req string —
bbid req string —
includes opt string —
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browse required: type

Browse entities filtered by a related entity.

Parameters
Name Type Description
type req string —
author opt string —
work opt string —
edition opt string —
publisher opt string —
series opt string —
edition_group opt string —
limit opt number —
offset opt number —
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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/bookbrainz/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/bookbrainz/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search","arguments":{"query": "hello", "type": "example"}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript 
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("search", {"query":"example","type":"example"});
ask_pipeworx 
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("open book metadata db from metabrainz (sister of musicbrainz)");