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internetarchive / openlibrary

openlibrary

One webpage for every book ever published!

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What it is

One webpage for every book ever published!

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Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

I love Open Library (and the internet archive project in general)—I've read so many good books through them! I really hope they don't get shut down. They're also truly open…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 12:45:45 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year45 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-11-06 22:21:37 UTC to 2026-04-09 20:29:31 UTC.

051015202019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 21 mentions; 0 submissions, 21 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 0 submissions, 7 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC21021
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC707
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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raybb·Jul 22, 2021
Donations are fantastic but if you have engineering (or project management, design, etc) skills spending just 1 hour a week contributing to their open source goes a very long way! Open Library in particular has a very active repo with lots of volunteers, a weekly community call, and a rather accessible codebase. https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary If anyone knows webpack well would LOVE to have this dev-facing issue resolve to auto reload CSS https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/4955
In Reflections as the Internet Archive turns 25
mekarpeles·Apr 17, 2021
Yes! Here's the issue: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/5022 Sorry about that, on the docket for this upcoming week. We're currently staffed by two eng (myself included) w/ ~80 open PRs, 500 issues, just finalized a py2 to 3 migration, and reprovisioned all of our servers w/ docker so we're playing catch-up on some newly surfaced issues. Please do open such issues so we're aware! It's a huge way to help. The issue mentioned above is happening because our cron jobs got moved from one machine to another. Will reply here when resolved.
In Why has no one made a better Goodreads
mekarpeles·Apr 16, 2021
Mek here from internet archive's OpenLibrary.org. Open Library was started by @aaronsw. We're a library catalog with 3M+ books to read & borrow. We've been around for 15 years, not going anywhere. We're open source and non profit: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary We defend patron privacy, offer free APIs, and release all public data openly: https://openlibrary.org/developers/dumps Most projects on this page have likely used our data. We have a Reading Log and several other more substantial features in the works. Our catalog spans more than 20M works: https://openlibrary.org/stats You can help! https://openlibrary.org/volunteer
In Why has no one made a better Goodreads

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