diff --git a/app.go b/app.go
index 74a8598..cbff814 100644
--- a/app.go
+++ b/app.go
@@ -24,8 +24,6 @@ import (
 	"syscall"
 	"time"
 
-	_ "github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql"
-
 	"github.com/gorilla/mux"
 	"github.com/gorilla/schema"
 	"github.com/gorilla/sessions"
diff --git a/database-lib.go b/database-lib.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..58beb05
--- /dev/null
+++ b/database-lib.go
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+// +build wflib
+
+/*
+ * Copyright © 2019 A Bunch Tell LLC.
+ *
+ * This file is part of WriteFreely.
+ *
+ * WriteFreely is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License, included
+ * in the LICENSE file in this source code package.
+ */
+
+// This file contains dummy database funcs for when writefreely is used as a
+// library.
+
+package writefreely
+
+func (db *datastore) isDuplicateKeyErr(err error) bool {
+	return false
+}
diff --git a/database-no-sqlite.go b/database-no-sqlite.go
index 10db7d5..a3d50fc 100644
--- a/database-no-sqlite.go
+++ b/database-no-sqlite.go
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// +build !sqlite
+// +build !sqlite,!wflib
 
 /*
  * Copyright © 2019 A Bunch Tell LLC.
diff --git a/database-sqlite.go b/database-sqlite.go
index 5fa3f6c..3741169 100644
--- a/database-sqlite.go
+++ b/database-sqlite.go
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// +build sqlite
+// +build sqlite,!wflib
 
 /*
  * Copyright © 2019 A Bunch Tell LLC.