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Your agent misremembers book details and ISBNs; this returns real bibliographic data from Open Library.

3 tools

Open bibliographic data: search books by title, author, or keyword, look up a work's details, and resolve a book by ISBN. Sourced from Open Library (Internet Archive), open data.

Knowledge & Referencebooksisbnauthorspublishingbibliographic

Tools (3)

▶work_details

Get details for a work (the abstract book) by its Open Library work ID.

0.1 credits/call ($0.0001) · 0.1 credit per call

Example prompts

“Get details for work OL45883W”
“What is the description and subjects of this work?”
“Show the work record for this book”

Parameters

work_idstringrequired

Open Library work ID, e.g. "OL45883W".

API Usage

curl -X POST "https://skill.askfaro.com/skills/books/run" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer faro_<your_key>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "intent": {
    "prompt": "Get details for work OL45883W"
  }
}'

CLI Usage

askfaro describe books/work_details

Install pip install askfaro-cli, then askfaro auth login.

▶book_by_isbn

Resolve one or more books by ISBN into normalized bibliographic data.

0.1 credits/call ($0.0001) · 0.1 credit per call

Example prompts

“Look up the book with ISBN 9780451526538”
“Get bibliographic data for ISBN:0451526538”
“Resolve these ISBNs to book details”

Parameters

bibkeysstringrequired

Comma-separated ISBN keys, each "ISBN:<number>" (e.g. "ISBN:0451526538").

API Usage

curl -X POST "https://skill.askfaro.com/skills/books/run" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer faro_<your_key>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "intent": {
    "prompt": "Look up the book with ISBN 9780451526538"
  }
}'

CLI Usage

askfaro describe books/book_by_isbn

Install pip install askfaro-cli, then askfaro auth login.

▶search

Search books by free-text query, title, or author.

0.1 credits/call ($0.0001) · 0.1 credit per call

Example prompts

“Search for books about the French Revolution”
“Find books by Ursula K. Le Guin”
“Look up the book "The Left Hand of Darkness"”

Parameters

qstringoptional

Free-text search query.

langstringoptional

ISO 639-1 language code to localize results (e.g. "en").

pageintegeroptionaldefault: 1

Result page (starts at 1).

sortstringoptional

Sort order (e.g. "new", "old", "rating", "editions").

limitintegeroptionaldefault: 20

Results per page (1-100).

titlestringoptional

Search by book title.

authorstringoptional

Search by author name.

fieldsstringoptional

Comma-separated fields to return (e.g. "key,title,author_name,first_publish_year"). Use "*" for all.

API Usage

curl -X POST "https://skill.askfaro.com/skills/books/run" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer faro_<your_key>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "intent": {
    "prompt": "Search for books about the French Revolution"
  }
}'

CLI Usage

askfaro describe books/search

Install pip install askfaro-cli, then askfaro auth login.