books.librivox.search
Search 20K+ public-domain audiobooks by title, author, or genre. Returns book IDs, descriptions, languages, copyright years, total time, and ZIP download URLs. LibriVox public domain
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What books.librivox.search does on Apibase
AI agents call books.librivox.search to retrieve information from Apibase without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
genre | string | — | Genre filter — e.g. "Adventure", "Children's Fiction", "Mystery", "Plays", "Poetry". |
limit | integer | — | Max results to return (default 25, max 100). |
title | string | — | Substring search on audiobook title (e.g. "pride and prejudice", "treasure"). |
author | string | — | Author name search (e.g. "shakespeare", "twain", "tolstoy"). |
offset | integer | — | Pagination offset for stepping through large result sets. |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why books.librivox.search is rated Low
Retrieves metadata and download links for public-domain audiobooks; no side effects or mutations.
From the tool's definition Search 20K+ public-domain audiobooks by title, author, genre. Returns book IDs, descriptions, languages, copyright years, total time, and ZIP download URLs.
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The rule that runs books.librivox.search safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Apibase, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For books.librivox.search, this is the rule to start with:
books.librivox.search is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Apibase, apply this rule, and every books.librivox.search call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about books.librivox.search
Search 20K+ public-domain audiobooks by title, author, or genre. Returns book IDs, descriptions, languages, copyright years, total time, and ZIP download URLs. LibriVox public domain. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Apibase MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
books.librivox.search accepts 5 parameters: genre, limit, title, author, offset. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Apibase MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for books.librivox.search: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Apibase. Nothing to install.
books.librivox.search is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the books.librivox.search rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for books.librivox.search. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
books.librivox.search is provided by the Apibase MCP server (apibase-mcp-client). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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