Creating Your User-Agent
Open Library asks every API client to identify itself with a User-Agent header. You create this value yourself; it is not issued by Open Library. No portal login is required — you simply choose a name and email to identify your application.
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Format your User-Agent string
Combine your product or service name (the name of the application that will be making API calls to Open Library) with a contact email address in parentheses.
- Format:
AppName (contact@example.com) - Example:
AcmeBooksBot (admin@acme.com) - Open Library uses this to identify your traffic and apply per-client rate limits (identified clients get higher limits than anonymous ones)
- A missing or generic value may cause your requests to be throttled or blocked
Linking the Account from the Hub
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Navigate to the Hub
Use one of the three Linking Account Methods to access the Hub.
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Fill out the fields
Fill out the following fields using details from your provider:
- User-Agent
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Connect
- Click Connect
- If applicable, the provider will redirect you to a sign-in or authorization page. Complete the provider’s authorization flow.
- Once authorization is successful, you will see a confirmation popup
If the account linking is successful, you will see the newly linked account in your Accounts page.