Iranketab Books

Read-only Iranketab (iranketab.ir) books: search, translations compared, ratings, reviews, prices.

The tools below come from the iranketab-mcp MCP server. If they are not available, install it with claude mcp add iranketab -- uvx iranketab-mcp, or add "iranketab": {"command": "uvx", "args": ["iranketab-mcp"]} to the client's MCP servers config. It needs uv. Restart the session after installing.

Tools

• ik_search: Search Iranketab by name and return matching books, authors/translators, publishers or categories with their ids.
• ik_book: Read one book (a work): title, authors, categories, introduction, review count and a short list of every edition.
• ik_editions: Compare every translation and publisher edition of one book side by side: rating, votes, price, pages, year, ISBN.
• ik_reviews: Read reader comments about a book, 20 per page, newest first, with the publisher/edition when the reader named one.
• ik_profile: Read an author's or translator's profile (name, biography) and the books they wrote or translated.
• ik_publisher_books: List the books of one publisher (انتشارات) on Iranketab, best sellers first by default.
• ik_browse: List books of a category, bestseller list or award list, with sort, in-list search and sub-category filters.
• ik_categories: List Iranketab's menu categories, or the sub-category filter groups of one category.
• ik_book_extras: Read what else a book page offers: awards, series, praise quotes, excerpts, author bio, related books and articles.
• ik_recommend: Suggest books to read next from books the reader liked, using Iranketab's own recommender ("چی بخونم؟").
• ik_lists: List Iranketab's literary prizes, best-of lists, book series, countries, genres or literary movements with ids.
• ik_articles: Find articles on Iranketab's blog (book reviews, author profiles, reading lists), by search or newest first.
• ik_article: Read one Iranketab blog article (a book review or author essay) as plain text, with the book and author ids it links to.

Rules

• Prices are Toman. Convert before comparing with a Rial figure from anywhere else.
• Read-only: no login, basket, booking, order or payment. Give the user the link to finish on the site.
• Keep request rates low. These are undocumented site APIs that can change or rate-limit.
• On timeouts or HTTP 403 outside Iran, set IRANKETAB_MCP_PROXY to an HTTP proxy with an Iranian IP.