Open Library FastAPI
Internet Archive's free and open catalogue of the world's books
Open Library (OL), an initiative by the Internet Archive, is the world's largest digital public library, accessible to anyone with an internet connection. In recent years, the website has struggled to keep up with increased traffic and frequent DDoS attacks, resulting in major slowdowns and outages. This project will increase the resilience and performance of OL by upgrading the most-visited HTML endpoints to FastAPI, replicating the recent successful migration of its JSON endpoints. Additionally, the project will expand Open Library’s role in the federated web by implementing connections with BookBrainz and Inventaire. Ultimately, this project takes critical steps toward resilient global access to millions of books while strengthening collaboration across the broader open knowledge commons.
- The project's own website: https://openlibrary.org
Run by Open Library
This project was funded through the NGI0 Commons Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101135429. Additional funding is made available by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).
