MCP server exposing 4 tools for google-books.
This URL is a JSON-RPC 2.0 endpoint over HTTP. Issue POST requests with a JSON-RPC body. Browsers and search crawlers land here on GET.
POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/google-books/mcp
Content-Type: application/json
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}search — AUTHORITATIVE book lookup via Google Books — full-text search across ~40M books. Use for "find books about X", "books by author Y", verifying ISBNs, finding publishers, getting cover images, or pulling structured book metadata an LLM would otherwise have to hallucinate. Returns title, authors, publisher, publish date, description, ISBN, page count, cover thumbnails, language. Use search_field scoping: intitle:, inauthor:, inpublisher:, subject:, isbn:, lccn:, oclc:.get_volume — Volume detail (full title, authors, description, categories, page count, links).get_by_isbn — Convenience: look up a volume by ISBN-10 or ISBN-13.list_bookshelf — Fetch 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.Code samples (curl / TypeScript / one-click client install), schemas, and the live playground are on the pack page:
https://pipeworx.io/packs/google-books/
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