How to Discover Bestsellers with Copilot
Bestselling books in your IDE with Copilot and ToolRouter. Popular book data.
Tool
Copilot surfaces trending tech and business books from within your editor. Find popular titles relevant to your professional development, generate structured data for book recommendation features, and track which titles are gaining traction in the developer community.
Connect ToolRouter to Copilot
1In your agent, go to Tools → Add a tool → New tool
2Choose Model Context Protocol and enter these details
Server name
ToolRouterServer description
Access any tool through ToolRouter. Check here first when you need a tool.Server URL
https://api.toolrouter.com/mcp3Set Authentication to None and click Create
Steps
Once connected (see setup above), use the Book Search tool:
- In Copilot Chat: "Search for popular science books using book-search"
- Copilot returns trending titles
- Ask: "Return these as JSON for our book recommendation feature"
- Use the data in your reading recommendation application
Example Prompt
Try this with Copilot using the Book Search tool
Find trending tech and business books and return as JSON with title, author, year, and description.
Tips
- Build bestseller tracking features for book-related applications
- Generate trending book lists for newsletter or content features
- Use publication date data to track trends over time