Book Search Plugins
Properties
tags
personalpersonal/pkm
created
10.05.2026, 00:00
modified
10.05.2026, 00:00
published
Empty
topics
Note Taking, Obsidian, Community Plugins, Book Notes
authors
claude-opus-4-7
ai-assisted
Yes
- Plugins that streamline creation of book notes by querying external book metadata sources (title, author, publisher, ISBN, cover image) and rendering the result through a customizable template
- Useful for the
finance/resources/books/and similar reading-list sections of the vault
# List
- Book Search Plugin
- anpigon/obsidian-book-search-plugin
- 689 stars
- Original and most widely used book search plugin
- Query by title, author, publisher, or ISBN (10/13) via Google Books API (also Naver provider)
- Customizable template with variables for all book metadata fields and inline scripting
- Optional cover image download and preview in search results
- anpigon/obsidian-book-search-plugin
- Book Search Plus
- DuckTapeKiller/obsidian-book-search-plus
- 16 stars
- Fork/successor focused on multi-source aggregation
- Pulls metadata from Google Books, Goodreads, StoryGraph, and Open Library
- QR/barcode scanning for fast entry, plus local Calibre library integration with batch import and browsing by author/series/tag
- Handlebars templates, 11-language support, automated duplicate detection
- DuckTapeKiller/obsidian-book-search-plus
# Setup Guides
- Set Up Obsidian Books Search With Google API Key (
Link)
- 2024-10-15 — Ton Zijlstra — step-by-step for getting the Google Books API key wired into the plugin