Get book details
get_bookRead-onlyIdempotent
Look up one book in the Shelfclub catalog, by its Shelfclub id or by ISBN. Returns its description, authors, reader rating, series, an edition (ISBN, page count, publisher, publication date, language), its shelfclub.app link, and machine-generated mood, vibe, pace and genre tags. A lookup by id also returns the Shelfclub author id of each author that has an author record.
Input Schema
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | No | The Shelfclub id of the book, as the other tools return it. Give this or `isbn`, not both. | |
| isbn | No | An ISBN-10 or ISBN-13, with or without hyphens. |
Output Schema
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| book | No | ||
| status | Yes | "try_again_later": the service was busy and looked nothing up, so the other fields are absent. | |
| tagProvenance | No | Where the moods, vibes, pace and genres come from. | |
| retryAfterSeconds | No | With "try_again_later", when known: how long to wait. |