What can you do with the Audiobookshelf integration?

LiveContext exposes 40 operations on Audiobookshelf, covering librarie, notification, serie and author.

Audiobookshelf integration

Audiobookshelf is a self-hosted server for audiobooks, ebooks and podcasts. The API lets an agent list and manage libraries and their contents, page through library items, series and authors, read and edit an author or a series, upload, download and match an author image, add a podcast from an RSS feed, search a podcast feed for episodes, queue and clear episode downloads, read, edit and delete a podcast episode, parse and create OPML podcast subscriptions, manage notification rules and test them, and configure the outgoing mail settings and e-reader devices used to send an ebook to a device. The host is part of the credential because every install is its own deployment. Authentication is the API token shown in the Audiobookshelf user account settings, sent as a bearer token.

40 toolsTokenAPI docs

Connect Audiobookshelf How integrations work

What you can do with Audiobookshelf

Each of these is one operation on one endpoint, available both as a workflow step and as a tool an AI agent can call on its own. Nothing bundles several operations into one action, so what a run did stays readable afterwards.

Most endpoints run on the free plan. A few, mainly the ones that publish on your behalf, need a paid plan.

Librarie, 5 operations

POSTcreate_library
Create a new library on server.
DELETEdelete_library
Delete a single library by ID on server.
GETget_library
Get a single library by ID on server.
GETlist_libraries
Get all libraries on server.
PATCHupdate_library
Update a single library by ID on server.

Notification, 4 operations

POSTcreate_notification
Create notification settings.
DELETEdelete_notification
Delete a notification.
GETlist_notifications
Get notification settings.
PATCHupdate_notification
Update a notification.

Serie, 4 operations

GETget_library_series
Get single series in library.
GETget_series
Get series.
GETlist_library_series
Get library series.
PATCHupdate_series
Update series.

Author, 3 operations

GETget_author
Get an author by ID.
GETlist_library_authors
Get all authors in a library.
PATCHupdate_author
Update an author by ID.

Episode, 3 operations

DELETEdelete_podcast_episode
Remove a podcast episode.
GETget_podcast_episode
Get a specific podcast episode.
PATCHupdate_podcast_episode
Update a podcast episode.

Image, 3 operations

DELETEdelete_author_image
Delete an author image by author ID.
GETget_author_image
Get an author image by author ID.
POSTupload_author_image
Add an author image to the server.

Setting, 2 operations

GETget_email_settings
Get email settings.
PATCHupdate_email_settings
Update email settings.

Checknew, 1 operation

GETcheck_new_episodes
Check and download new episodes.

Clear queue, 1 operation

GETclear_episode_download_queue
Clear episode download queue.

Create, 1 operation

POSTcreate_podcasts_from_opml
Bulk create podcasts from OPML feed URLs.

Download, 1 operation

GETlist_episode_downloads
Get episode downloads.

Download episode, 1 operation

POSTdownload_episodes
Download podcast episodes.

Ereader device, 1 operation

POSTupdate_ereader_devices
Update e-reader devices.

Feed, 1 operation

POSTfetch_podcast_feed
Get podcast feed.

Issue, 1 operation

DELETEdelete_library_items_with_issues
Delete items with issues in a library.

Item, 1 operation

GETlist_library_items
Get items in a library.

Match, 1 operation

POSTmatch_author
Match the author against Audible using quick match.

Match episode, 1 operation

POSTmatch_podcast_episodes
Quick match podcast episodes.

Notificationdata, 1 operation

GETget_notification_event_data
Get notification event data.

Parse, 1 operation

POSTparse_opml_feeds
Get feeds from OPML text.

Podcast, 1 operation

POSTcreate_podcast
Create a new podcast.

Search episode, 1 operation

GETsearch_podcast_episodes
Find episode by title.

Send ebook to device, 1 operation

POSTsend_ebook_to_device
Send ebook to device.

Use Audiobookshelf from Claude Code, Cursor or Codex

Connect Audiobookshelf in LiveContext, create an API key in Settings, then add the LiveContext MCP server to your client. Its Audiobookshelf operations become tools the client can call, next to every other integration you connected.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http livecontext https://livecontext.ai/mcp --header "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Codex (~/.codex/config.toml)

[mcp_servers.livecontext]
url = "https://livecontext.ai/mcp"

[mcp_servers.livecontext.http_headers]
"X-API-Key" = "YOUR_API_KEY"

Cursor, Claude Desktop and other JSON configs

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "livecontext": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://livecontext.ai/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Set up the MCP server step by step

How to connect Audiobookshelf

Create your workspace
Sign up free. Nothing to install.
Connect Audiobookshelf once
Add your Audiobookshelf connection in Settings. Every tool from this integration reuses it, and secrets are encrypted at rest and visible only to you.
Describe the job in chat
The workflow builds itself in front of you and picks the endpoints it needs. Drag the steps yourself on the canvas whenever you would rather be explicit.

Audiobookshelf integration FAQ

What can you do with the Audiobookshelf integration?: LiveContext exposes 40 operations on Audiobookshelf, covering librarie, notification, serie and author.