Goodreads Book Scraper - Ratings, Reviews Count & Details

Get the full details of any book on Goodreads without logging in. Give book URLs or ids and the Actor returns the title, author and contributors, description, genres, series and position, format, pages, publisher, publication dates, language, ISBN-10, ISBN-13, ASIN, cover, average rating, number of ratings and text reviews and the rating distribution by stars. Schedule it and changes in rating, ratings count or reviews count since the previous run are reported with their differences. Book marketing, author dashboards, publisher research, library and bookshop catalogs, comparison sites and reading apps at $0.002 per book.

What you get

Book (one row each): bookId, url, title, titleComplete, originalTitle, author, authorUrl, contributors, description, genres, series, seriesUrl, seriesPosition, format, pages, publisher, publishedAt (this edition), firstPublishedAt, language, isbn, isbn13, asin, image, rating, ratingsCount, reviewsCount, ratingsDistribution (ratings per star, 1 to 5), source.

Changes on scheduled runs: ratingChange, ratingsCountChange and reviewsCountChange since the previous run of the same book (null on the first run).

Books that do not exist return a row with an error field and are not charged.

How to use it

1. Open the Input tab.
2. Add Book URLs or ids, one per line (up to 1,000 per run): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3735293-clean-code or 3735293.
3. Click Start and export the rows as JSON, CSV or Excel.
4. Schedule the Actor daily or weekly to follow ratings and reviews of your titles.

Input

{
  "books": ["https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3735293-clean-code", "11084145"]
}

Output

{
  "bookId": "3735293",
  "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3735293",
  "title": "Clean Code",
  "titleComplete": "Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship",
  "originalTitle": "Clean Code",
  "author": "Robert C. Martin",
  "authorUrl": "https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/45372.Robert_C_Martin",
  "contributors": [],
  "description": "Even bad code can function. But if code isn't clean, it can bring a development organization to its knees...",
  "genres": ["Programming", "Software", "Computer Science", "Technology", "Nonfiction"],
  "series": "Robert C. Martin Series",
  "seriesUrl": "https://www.goodreads.com/series/318352",
  "seriesPosition": null,
  "format": "Paperback",
  "pages": 464,
  "publisher": "Pearson",
  "publishedAt": "2008-08-01",
  "firstPublishedAt": "2007-01-01",
  "language": "English",
  "isbn": "0132350882",
  "isbn13": "9780132350884",
  "asin": null,
  "image": "https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/....jpg",
  "rating": 4.36,
  "ratingsCount": 24510,
  "reviewsCount": 1538,
  "ratingsDistribution": { "1": 160, "2": 468, "3": 2648, "4": 8536, "5": 12698 },
  "source": "apollo",
  "ratingChange": null,
  "ratingsCountChange": null,
  "reviewsCountChange": null,
  "timestamp": "2026-10-28T10:00:00.000Z"
}

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.002 per book and $0.0005 per book whose stats changed on a scheduled run. Missing books are free. A catalog of 1,000 titles refreshed weekly costs $2.00 a week.

Limits and notes

• Each URL or id returns the edition it points to; other editions of the same work are not listed (the rating statistics cover all editions).
• Individual reviews are not included, only their count and the rating distribution.
• Goodreads search is not supported; give the book pages directly.
• Descriptions are returned as plain text without HTML.

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