Is openlibrary.org safe?
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL21745884W/Project_Hail_Mary
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 4 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (61 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Open Library book page shows no security threats and only a non-profit donation request
This is a book catalog page on Open Library, a project the page says is run by the Internet Archive, a nonprofit. The domain is over 25 years old, security checks found no detections, and the only money-related request we saw was a donation appeal. There are no shop, checkout or subscription flows on the page, so the score sits in the Safe band.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 93/100
Safe covers scores 85–100. No adverse finding was saved; 3 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
No adverse finding was saved with this report.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsNo detections from 93 engines, and no Safe Browsing warning.
- SupportsThe domain is about 9,247 days old.
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection
Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
This is a book catalog page on Open Library, a project the page says is run by the Internet Archive, a nonprofit. The domain is over 25 years old, security checks found no detections, and the only money-related request we saw was a donation appeal. There are no shop, checkout or subscription flows on the page, so the score sits in the Safe band.
Technical checks came back clean
None of 93 security engines flagged the address as malicious or suspicious. The browser threat feed returned no warning, and the connection is properly encrypted. These results mean nothing harmful was detected. They are not a guarantee on their own, but they fit the rest of the evidence.
Who runs it and what visitors are asked to do
The page shows a banner asking visitors to chip in. It says the Internet Archive runs this project and is a nonprofit funded by online donations averaging about $14. The Donate link points to archive.org, the Internet Archive's own site.
The other outbound links are informational. They lead to the Terms of Service, Careers, the Wayback Machine and help guides on archive.org, release notes on GitHub, and the project's social media account. We found no affiliate sales or paid checkout on the page.
The domain has been registered for 9,247 days, which is over 25 years. That is consistent with a long-running established service.
Why the score is 93
The saved checks and analysis found no material threat. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 93
No detectionsFresh result
No detections across 61 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 32 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
All 93 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Clean
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Clean
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Clean
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiReference
- BitDefendereducation
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerreference materials
- Sophosreference
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
Please Don't Scroll Past This. Can you chip in? Open Library works to keep the record straight by preserving educational books, government works, historical documents, and more. The Internet Archive (which runs this project) is a nonprofit, powered by online donations averaging about $14.
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Please Don't Scroll Past This. Can you chip in? Open Library works to keep the record straight by preserving educational books, government works, historical documents, and more. The Internet Archive (which runs this project) is a nonprofit, powered by online donations averaging about $14.
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
Human Verification | Open Library
- Meta description
Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.
Pages we read
- Main page/verify_humanRead
- Support / FAQ/helpRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Human Verification | Open Library
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 61 antivirus results.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
What remains unverified
The checks completed, but ownership, business claims, and future site behavior can still change after this snapshot.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Content
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01No detections from 93 engines, and no Safe Browsing warning.
- 02The domain is about 9,247 days old.
- 03There is a nonprofit donation appeal that links to archive.org.
Web research findings
Independent findings for openlibrary.org, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for openlibrary.org. That is common for new or low-traffic sites and does not clear the site.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainopenlibrary.org
- Redirects toopenlibrary.org
- Hosted byInternet Archive
- Referencesarchive.org · github.com
Domain Timeline
- Jun 25, 2001Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 25 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 19, 2026Saved security review — Rated Safe
This saved scan found no active threat signals in the checks it completed.
openlibrary.org has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- Links to 5 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for www.openlibrary.org.
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Operator / customer risk
unknownComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 0 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | No adverse finding | fresh · analysed Oct 19, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 19, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 19, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 19, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 19, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Oct 19, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 19, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 19, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 19, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 19, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is openlibrary.org legit and safe?
Is openlibrary.org safe to use?
Could a legitimate site like openlibrary.org still be used in a scam?
Has openlibrary.org been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is openlibrary.org on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the openlibrary.org domain?
Does openlibrary.org have a valid SSL certificate?
Where is openlibrary.org hosted?
Is openlibrary.org a well-known website?
How often is the openlibrary.org report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Open Library book page shows no security threats and only a non-profit donation request
This is a book catalog page on Open Library, a project the page says is run by the Internet Archive, a nonprofit. The domain is over 25 years old, security checks found no detections, and the only money-related request we saw was a donation appeal. There are no shop, checkout or subscription flows on the page, so the score sits in the Safe band.
09 · Community
Community
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