# OverDrive

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/overdrive/  
**Website:** http://www.overdrive.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

OverDrive is a digital reading platform that distributes ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines to public libraries and schools worldwide, best known for its Libby and Sora reading apps. OverDrive publishes a set of REST APIs that let library systems, integrators, and partners work against a library's OverDrive collection: Discovery APIs (Library Account, Search, Metadata, and Library Availability), Circulation APIs (patron information, checkouts, and holds), Reporting APIs (checkouts report), and a Title Link API. Access is authorized with OAuth 2.0 client-credentials (client authentication) for discovery and patron authentication (including QR-code sign-in) for borrowing and holds, with a dedicated integration environment for testing against real titles before going live.

## Kin Score — 26.1 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 26.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 92.6 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 3.1 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 52.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 13.2 |

## Agent readiness — 14.4 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| MCP Server | derived |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | yes |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (3)

- **OverDrive Discovery API** — Discovery APIs to search and find information about titles in a library's OverDrive collection — Library Account, Search, Metadata, and Library Availability.
- **OverDrive Circulation API** — Circulation APIs to authenticate patrons and manage checkouts and holds against a library's OverDrive collection.
- **OverDrive Reporting API** — Reporting API to see the titles that were borrowed from a specific collection during a specific time period (public libraries only).

## MCP servers (1)

- **overdrive-mcp.yml**

## Security (3)

- **Overdrive Authentication** — oauth2 · 3 schemes
- **Overdrive Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC
- **Overdrive Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Tags

Company, Books, Libraries, Ebooks, Audiobooks, Digital Media, Publishing, Education, Reading, Circulation

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/overdrive/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.