---
title: "Goodreads API replacement: books by title, author or ISBN"
method: GET
path: "/api/books"
tags: ["Afterwren"]
---

# Goodreads API replacement: books by title, author or ISBN

`GET /api/books`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://afterwren.cybermaxtools.com`
- URL: `https://afterwren.cybermaxtools.com/api/books`
- Auth: one of:
  - none
  - API key in header `x-api-key`
  - HTTP bearer

Up to 10 books: title, authors, firstPublished, isbn13, isbn10, pages, editions, rating (Open Library readers), ratingsCount, wantToRead, subjects, publishers, cover image and Open Library URL.

## Query parameters

- `q` string
- `isbn` string
- `limit` string

## Response `200`

Results (same field names as the bulk version's dataset records) plus the free-tier limits.

- object

## Other responses

- `400`: Invalid input
- `401`: Invalid or revoked API key
- `429`: Free tier used up (100/day per IP) or rate/plan limit reached; the body has an upgrade link.
- `504`: Took too long; ask for fewer items

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/cybermaxtools/apis/afterwren-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/cybermaxtools/apis/afterwren-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/cybermaxtools/apis/afterwren-api/revisions/1b59acb5f5b2?raw)