Open Library Developer Docs

APIs

• [[docs/api|Open Library JSON API]]
  
• [[docs/api/covers|Covers]]
  
• [[docs/api/books|Books]]
  
• [[/api_sandbox|API Sandbox]]
  
• [[/docs/api/widget|JavaScript Widget]]

Developer Notes

• [[http://openlibrary.org/dev|Some developer notes]]
  
• [[docs/bookurls|Archive.org book URLs]]
  
• [[docs/bookreader|Using the Internet Archive BookReader]]
  
• [[docs/wikiformatting|Using Markdown, our wiki formatting syntax]]
  
• [[docs/infogami|Infogami Developer Tutorial]]
  
• [[/dev/docs/setup|Set up a development instance of Open Library]]
  
• [[/dev/docs/committing|Committing changes to github.com/openlibrary/openlibrary ]]

Data

• [[docs/setup|Installing your own copy of the Open Library]]
  
• [[docs/pages|Importing and exporting pages]]
  
• [[docs/jsondump|Bulk Download Open Library Data]]

Older pages, shouldn't be relied upon. Check the date last edited.

• [[docs/ui|The State of the UI]]
  
• [[docs/data|The state of data import]]
  
• Open Library Info Sheet
  
• Video from the 2008 OL Developers' Meeting
  
• [[/docs/virtualshelf|Virtual Shelf Prototype Guided Tour]]
  
• [[docs/logs|Open Library logs]]
  
• [[docs/ia|Resources we have from the Internet Archive]]
  
• [[docs/deploy|How to deploy code changes]]
  
• [[docs/hardware|Proposed hardware changes]]
  
• [[/about/architecture|Open library server architecture]]