# Kavita Library API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/kavita/kavita-library-api/  
**Provider:** Kavita — https://apis.io/providers/kavita/  
**Documentation:** https://wiki.kavitareader.com/

Kavita Library API is one of 48 APIs that [Kavita](https://apis.io/providers/kavita/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Library. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification.

The Library API from Kavita — 25 operation(s) for library.

## Operations (25)

| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| POST | `/api/Library/create` | Creates a new Library. |
| GET | `/api/Library/list` | Returns a list of directories for a given path. |
| POST | `/api/Library/has-files-at-root` | For each root, checks if there are any supported files at root to warn the user… |
| GET | `/api/Library` | Return a specific library |
| GET | `/api/Library/libraries` | Return all libraries in the Server |
| GET | `/api/Library/user-libraries` | Gets libraries for the given user that you also have access to |
| GET | `/api/Library/jump-bar` | For a given library, generate the jump bar information |
| POST | `/api/Library/grant-access` | Grants a user account access to a Library |
| POST | `/api/Library/scan` | Scans a given library for file changes |
| POST | `/api/Library/folder-watch/retry` | Watches the library again after its watcher missed a change or kept failing |
| GET | `/api/Library/watch-status` | How the library notices changes now and why |
| POST | `/api/Library/scan-multiple` | Enqueues a bunch of library scans |
| POST | `/api/Library/scan-all` | Scans a given library for file changes. |
| POST | `/api/Library/refresh-metadata` | Create api library refresh metadata |
| POST | `/api/Library/refresh-metadata-multiple` | Create api library refresh metadata multiple |
| POST | `/api/Library/copy-settings-from` | Copy the library settings (adv tab + optional type) to a set of other libraries |
| POST | `/api/Library/scan-folder` | Given a valid path, will invoke either a Scan Series or Scan Library. |
| DELETE | `/api/Library/delete` | Deletes the library and all series within it |
| DELETE | `/api/Library/delete-multiple` | Deletes multiple libraries and all series within it |
| GET | `/api/Library/name-exists` | Checks if the library name exists or not |
| POST | `/api/Library/update` | Updates an existing Library with new name, folders, and/or type |
| GET | `/api/Library/metadata-providers` | Return all Kavita.Models.Entities.Enums.MetadataProviders that are supported by… |
| GET | `/api/Library/metadata-enabled-libraries` | Kavita.Models.Entities.Enums.LibraryType with KavitaPlus metadata support |
| GET | `/api/Library/scrobble-enabled-libraries` | Kavita.Models.Entities.Enums.LibraryType with KavitaPlus scrobble support |
| GET | `/api/Library/type` | Returns the type of the underlying library |

## Machine-readable artifacts (1)

- **OpenAPI** — https://artifacts.apis.io/kavita/openapi/kavita-library-api-openapi.yml

## Other Kavita APIs (12)

- [Kavita API](https://apis.io/apis/kavita/kavita-api/)
- [Kavita Account API](https://apis.io/apis/kavita/kavita-account-api/)
- [Kavita Activity API](https://apis.io/apis/kavita/kavita-activity-api/)
- [Kavita Admin API](https://apis.io/apis/kavita/kavita-admin-api/)
- [Kavita Annotation API](https://apis.io/apis/kavita/kavita-annotation-api/)
- [Kavita Book API](https://apis.io/apis/kavita/kavita-book-api/)
- [Kavita Cbl API](https://apis.io/apis/kavita/kavita-cbl-api/)
- [Kavita Chapter API](https://apis.io/apis/kavita/kavita-chapter-api/)
- [Kavita Collection API](https://apis.io/apis/kavita/kavita-collection-api/)
- [Kavita Color Scape API](https://apis.io/apis/kavita/kavita-colorscape-api/)
- [Kavita Device API](https://apis.io/apis/kavita/kavita-device-api/)
- [Kavita Download API](https://apis.io/apis/kavita/kavita-download-api/)

## Tags

Library

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