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Open Library Book Scraper – Books, ISBNs & Metadata

$0.5/1K 🔥 Fast Open Library book scraper! Title, author, ISBN, year, subjects, cover & publisher. JSON, CSV, Excel or API in seconds. Search or list ISBNs & pull thousands of books for catalogs & research ⚡

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Open Library Book Scraper – Books, ISBN & Ratings

Scrape book data from Open Library (20M+ books): title, authors, year, ISBNs, subjects, ratings and cover. Search or look up by ISBN. A free Google Books alternative. JSON, CSV, Excel.

💵 Pricing

Pay per result — $0.0004 per item. No subscription, no proxy needed. You only pay for the data you scrape, and new Apify accounts include free monthly credits so you can test it for $0.

🔎 What can it extract?

Title, authors, first publish year
Edition count, ISBNs, languages
Publishers, subjects
Ratings, page count, cover URL
Search by title/author/subject or ISBN

🚀 How do I use it?

Click Try for free.
Set the input (see example below).
Click Start and download results as JSON, CSV or Excel — or pull them via the API / schedule them.

⚙️ Input example

{
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "dune",
  "maxItems": 100
}

📦 Output example

{
  "title": "Dune",
  "authors": [
    "Frank Herbert"
  ],
  "first_publish_year": 1965,
  "ratings_average": 4.2
}

🎯 Use cases

Book apps & catalogs
ISBN enrichment
Library/research datasets
Reading-list features

💰 How much will it cost?

You pay only the per-result price (no proxy cost): 100 → ~$0.04 · 1,000 → ~$0 · 10,000 → ~$4

🆚 Why this one

Feature	This actor	Others
20M+ books, free	✅	limited/paid
ISBN + subjects + ratings	✅	partial
No key needed	✅	sometimes

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❓ FAQ

Key/proxy? No. ISBN? Use mode=isbn.

🛟 Support

Found a bug or need an extra field? Open an issue on the actor — fixes and new fields ship fast.

Legal & privacy

Public data via the Open Library API.

Keywords: open library scraper, book data, isbn, google books alternative, metadata, JSON CSV Excel

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