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Open Library Books Scraper

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Open Library Books Scraper

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.

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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, authors
  • first_publish_year, publishers, isbns
  • subjects, languages, page_count_median, edition_count
  • rating_average, rating_count
  • ebook_access, has_fulltext, ia_ids
  • first_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.