Saylor Innovations Data Desk
Author profile - birth and death dates, top work, work count, subjects, bio and alternate names from Open Library
Offering
- Provider
- saylorinnovations.com
- Method
- GET
- Offering type
- Api Endpoint
- Transport type
- http
- Category
- Science And Education
- Delivery
- Not provided
- Pricing model
- Not provided
- x402 version
- 2
Endpoint context
- URL
https://saylorinnovations.com/api/books/author- MIME type
- Not provided
- First seen
- 2026-10-16T01:59:13.392Z
- Last seen
- Tags
- author lookup, book author, open library, author bibliography, writer profile
Payment pricing
x402 payment terms are the authoritative price for calling this endpoint.
- Payment option 1
- 0.01 USDC
Atomic price: 10000 · Network: eip155:8453 · Asset: USDC · Scheme: exact - Payment option 2
- 0.01 USDC
Atomic price: 10000 · Network: solana:5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdp · Asset: USDC · Scheme: exact
Raw x402 terms
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]Observed health
- Status
- Healthy
- Latest latency
- 1233 ms
- Average latency
- 791 ms
- HTTP status
- 402
- Last checked
- Reachability
- 100% over 10 checks
Latency is measured to the first response headers. A reachable result does not verify response accuracy or merchant identity.
Input schema
{
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"method": {
"enum": [
"GET",
"POST",
"PUT",
"PATCH",
"DELETE",
"HEAD"
],
"type": "string"
},
"queryParams": {
"properties": {
"q": {
"description": "Author name, 1-80 characters",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"q"
],
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"const": "http",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method"
],
"type": "object"
}Output schema
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"properties": {
"method": {
"enum": [
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"POST",
"PUT",
"PATCH",
"DELETE",
"HEAD"
],
"type": "string"
},
"queryParams": {
"properties": {
"q": {
"description": "Author name, 1-80 characters",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"q"
],
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"const": "http",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method"
],
"type": "object"
},
"output": {
"properties": {
"example": {
"properties": {
"alternate_names": {
"description": "Alternate names",
"type": [
"array",
"null"
]
},
"bio": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"birth_date": {
"description": "Birth date",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"checked_at": {
"description": "Time the check was run (UTC)",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"death_date": {
"description": "Death date",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"key": {
"type": "string"
},
"matched": {
"description": "Number of items that matched the query",
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
},
"name": {
"description": "Name",
"type": "string"
},
"other_matches": {
"description": "Other candidates that matched the query, lower ranked",
"items": {
"type": "object"
},
"type": "array"
},
"query": {
"description": "The query as the server interpreted it",
"type": "string"
},
"source": {
"description": "Data source the values come from",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"top_subjects": {
"description": "Top subjects",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"type": "array"
},
"top_work": {
"description": "Top work",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"url": {
"description": "Canonical URL",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"wikipedia": {
"description": "Wikipedia article URL"
},
"work_count": {
"description": "Number of work",
"type": "number"
}
},
"required": [
"query",
"name"
],
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
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"type": "string"
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},
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}
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"type": "object"
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