Open Library
Online project for book data by the Internet Archive
Also known as OpenLibrary
- Founded
- July 16, 2007
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Sources- 1.“Announcing the Open Library (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)”aaronsw.com/weblog/openlibraryRetrieved 2025-12-08
- July 16, 2007
- Written in
- License
- GNU Affero General Public License, version 3.0
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Sources- 1.Stated in GitHub“openlibrary/LICENSE at master · internetarchive/openlibrary”github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/blob/master/LICENSERetrieved 2025-03-26
- GNU Affero General Public License, version 3.0
- Website
- openlibrary.org
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Sources- 1.api.github.com/repos/internetarchive/openlibraryRetrieved 2018-07-29
- openlibrary.org
Overview
All data
70 statements · 17% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Motto text
- One web page for every book ever published
- Alexa rank
- 9,565(August 11, 2020)
- 14,360(January 29, 2021)
- 13,290(November 28, 2017)
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Sources- 1.Stated in Alexa Internetalexa.com/siteinfo/https://openlibrary.org/Retrieved 2017-11-28
- Search formatter URL
- https://openlibrary.org/search?q=$1 language: English
- Social media followers
- 274(December 16, 2024) mastodon address: OpenLibrary@mastodon.archive.org
- 42,526(February 3, 2023) x (twitter) numeric user id: 19094000
- 177(June 17, 2024) mastodon address: openlibrary@mastodon.archive.org
- 148(April 11, 2024) mastodon address: openlibrary@mastodon.archive.org
- 132(March 16, 2024) mastodon address: openlibrary@mastodon.archive.org
- 107(February 11, 2024) mastodon address: openlibrary@mastodon.archive.org
- 39,864(January 27, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 19094000
- 33,723(January 5, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 19094000
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- 21,837(May 10, 2018) x (twitter) numeric user id: 19094000
- Collection or exhibition size
- 5,000,000 item
On other databases
17 identifiers linking Open Library across the web's reference databases
- AlternativeTo IDopen-library
- BabelNet ID02366807n
- Bing entity IDd3385649-f1d6-5e43-ff01-10dbf63d122f
- Bluesky handleopenlibrary.org
- DBIS Resource ID11643
- Domain nameopenlibrary.org
- Freebase ID/m/04y5fy5
- GitLab.com topic IDopen-library
- Interwiki prefix at Wikimediaopenlibrary
- Japan Search name IDオープン・ライブラリ
- Linked Open Data Cloud IDopen-library
- Mastodon addressopenlibrary@mastodon.archive.org
- Matrix room ID#theopenlibrary_Lobby:gitter.im
- Open Library subject IDopen_library
- PersonalData.IO IDQ2320
- Quora topic IDOpen-Library
- X (Twitter) usernameopenlibrary