Bookbrainz

Name: Bookbrainz
Author: pipeworx-io

by pipeworx-iocommunityv0.1.0

MCP server for querying BookBrainz, the MetaBrainz open book metadata database. It supports searching, looking up, and browsing entities such as works, editions, authors, publishers, series, and edition-groups.

From the registry: BookBrainz MCP — open book metadata (MetaBrainz / sister of MusicBrainz)

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Install & configure

Install in your client

Paste into the AI you're chatting with — it will figure out the rest

Please install the `bookbrainz` MCP server into my current AI client (that's you).

Canonical MCP server config (HTTP transport):
- url: `https://gateway.pipeworx.io/bookbrainz/mcp`

Note: README provides a direct HTTP MCP endpoint for the BookBrainz server via the Pipeworx gateway. It also mentions an alternative full Pipeworx gateway URL, but the service-specific BookBrainz endpoint is the canonical choice.

Add this MCP server to my current client's config in the correct format for you. If you need secrets or credentials I haven't provided, ASK me — do not invent values or leave raw placeholders. After adding it, tell me how to verify the server is connected.

Note: README provides a direct HTTP MCP endpoint for the BookBrainz server via the Pipeworx gateway. It also mentions an alternative full Pipeworx gateway URL, but the service-specific BookBrainz endpoint is the canonical choice.

Tools (3)

Search BookBrainz for works, editions, authors, publishers, series, or edition-groups by free-text query and return matching records with BookBrainz UUIDs (bbids).

lookup

Fetch a single BookBrainz entity by its UUID (bbid), optionally including sub-resources like aliases, relationships, and identifiers.

browse

Browse entities of a type filtered by a related entity, such as editions by work or works by author.