Google Books
liveBooksGoogle Books search + volume metadata (~40M+ books). Public reads keyless; optional key for higher rate limits.
Tools
searchrequired: queryFULL-TEXT search inside the actual scanned/printed content of ~40M books via Google Books — find an exact phrase, name, or passage buried inside a book's text, not just its metadata. Use for "search f
queryreqstring—search_fieldoptstringintitle | inauthor | inpublisher | subject | isbn | lccn | oclcfilteroptstring—languageoptstring—print_typeoptstring—order_byoptstring—limitoptnumber—offsetoptnumber—Try it
get_volumerequired: idVolume detail (full title, authors, description, categories, page count, links).
idreqstring—Try it
get_by_isbnrequired: isbnConvenience: look up a volume by ISBN-10 or ISBN-13.
isbnreqstring—Try it
list_bookshelfrequired: user_idFetch the public bookshelves for a Google account (by numeric user_id). Omit shelf to list all public shelves; provide a numeric shelf id to list the volumes on that specific shelf.
user_idreqstring—shelfoptstring—Try it
Test with curl
The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/google-books/mcp \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/google-books/mcp \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search","arguments":{"query": "hello"}}}'Use with the SDK
Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("search", {"query":"example"});// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("google books search + volume metadata (~40m+ books)");