Book by isbn

An MCP tool from the Public Knowledge server, hosted on mcp.hjlabs.in.

Look up a book by ISBN-10 or ISBN-13 (Open Library): title, authors, publisher, publish date, pages, subjects, description and cover.

Name on the gateway: knowledge__book_by_isbn · read-only.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`isbn` required	`string`	ISBN-10 or ISBN-13, hyphens allowed.

Through the Smart Gateway, any client can run it by name with call_tool, or let the gateway find it with search_tools:

call_tool arguments

{
  "name": "knowledge__book_by_isbn",
  "arguments": {
    "isbn": "…"
  }
}

Or connect the Public Knowledge server directly, which lists 47 tools including this one:

Run in your terminal

claude mcp add --transport http hj-knowledge https://mcp.hjlabs.in/mcp/knowledge \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

Use the book by isbn tool with isbn set to ….