BookBrainz

liveBooks

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

3tools
0msauth
free tier50 calls/day

Tools

lookuprequired: type, bbid

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

Parameters
NameTypeDescription
typereqstring—
bbidreqstring—
includesoptstring—
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browserequired: type

Browse entities of a type filtered by a related entity. e.g. browse editions by work, works by author.

Parameters
NameTypeDescription
typereqstring—
authoroptstring—
workoptstring—
editionoptstring—
publisheroptstring—
seriesoptstring—
edition_groupoptstring—
limitoptnumber—
offsetoptnumber—
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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)");