Open Library Books Scraper
Pricing
from $0.75 / 1,000 book scrapeds
Go to Apify Store
Open Library Books Scraper
Scrape book metadata from Open Library (Internet Archive) — title, authors, ISBNs, publishers, first publish year, subjects, languages, page count, ratings, cover image and edition count — by search query or ISBN. Free, no key, no proxy.
Open Library Books Scraper 📚
Scrape book metadata from Open Library (the open, free book database by the Internet Archive — 40M+ editions). Search by keyword or look up exact books by ISBN.
Great for catalog / metadata enrichment, publishing & bookstore data, recommendation engines, library apps, price/edition comparison, and RAG / AI datasets.
What it extracts (one row per book)
work_id,title,subtitle,authorsfirst_publish_year,publishers,isbnssubjects,languages,page_count_median,edition_countrating_average,rating_countebook_access,has_fulltext,ia_idsfirst_sentence,cover_url,url
Input
{"queries": ["clean code", "subject:machine learning", "author:tolkien"],"isbns": ["9780132350884"],"maxItemsPerQuery": 200}
- queries — free text or fielded (
title:,author:,subject:,publisher:). - isbns — exact ISBN-10 / ISBN-13 lookups.
Output example
{"type": "book","work_id": "OL15428543W","title": "Clean Code","authors": ["Robert C. Martin"],"first_publish_year": 2008,"publishers": ["Prentice Hall"],"isbns": ["9780132350884", "0132350882"],"subjects": ["Computer software", "Software engineering"],"languages": ["eng"],"page_count_median": 431,"edition_count": 12,"cover_url": "https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/8091016-L.jpg","url": "https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15428543W"}
Notes
- Uses the free Open Library API — no key, no quota headaches.
- Pagination handled automatically.
- No proxy required.