Military Books API

Use this API for searchable bibliographic reference data around military books and manuals. It exposes normalized JSON endpoints with practical filters, source metadata, and lightweight reference tables so developers can add lookup and discovery features without maintaining their own scraper or curation pipeline.

Data live militarybooksmanualsbibliographyhistorywikipedia

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Use Cases

build defense-history bibliographies
tag military reference collections
filter works by subject, country, and author

Access

These endpoints are served through RapidAPI. The examples below are documentation examples, not direct browser links, because requests require RapidAPI authentication headers.

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Endpoints

GET/api/militarybooks/books

List military books and manuals or filter by title, author, country, subject, year, or free text.

Query parameters: title, author, country, subject, year, q, limit

/api/militarybooks/books?country=example&q=example

GET/api/militarybooks/countries

List countries represented in parsed book metadata.

/api/militarybooks/countries

GET/api/militarybooks/subjects

List subjects inferred from infoboxes and source categories.

/api/militarybooks/subjects

GET/api/militarybooks/sources

List Wikipedia categories used for collection.

/api/militarybooks/sources

Pricing

Basic: $0/day for 10 requests. Evaluation tier for testing the API in prototypes.
Pro: $9/month for 10000 requests. Small production apps, internal tools, and niche content sites.
Business: $29/month for 100000 requests. Higher-volume apps, catalog enrichment, and recurring data workflows.

Data Notes

Source: Wikipedia. Refresh cadence: 30d. Records include source attribution when exposed by the API response.

Primary table: military_books