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Re:Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentione... by sheepjumpmoons on Sunday November 01, 2026 @01:02PM (#50327976)
Depends on what catalog system your local library is using. Many use the open source Evergreen ILS. It has a very robust API that I've used quite a bit for discovery.

There are some others, just one example.

Point being though is that every library system is different.

Re:Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentione... by porridgeraisin on Sunday November 01, 2026 @01:22PM (#50328185)
AI can help with that too! Have it pwn the library's public endpoints to get access to their catalog.
Re:Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentione... by kidnoodle on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:45PM (#50341573)
I have made extensive use of this while building my library book recommender doodad https://leafle.org

The LLMs are very good at reverse engineering undocumented apis!