Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 results

📚 Open Library Intelligence - 20M+ Books & Covers

Search and extract book data from Open Library's database of 20+ million books. Get titles, authors, publishers, publication dates, ISBNs, covers, subjects, and edition info. Search by title, author, ISBN, or subject. Free alternative to Google Books API.

Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 results

Rating

0.0

(0)

Developer

ben

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

11 days ago

Last modified

Categories

Developer tools

Other

You can access the 📚 Open Library Intelligence - 20M+ Books & Covers programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9    "searchQuery": "1984",
10    "maxResults": 5,
11}
12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
14run = client.actor("benthepythondev/openlibrary-book-intelligence").call(run_input=run_input)
15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
17print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
18for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
19    print(item)
20
21# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Open Library Scraper - 20M+ Books, ISBNs & Covers API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use 📚 Open Library Intelligence - 20M+ Books & Covers API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

📚 Open Library Intelligence - 20M+ Books & Covers API in JavaScript

📚 Open Library Intelligence - 20M+ Books & Covers API through CLI

📚 Open Library Intelligence - 20M+ Books & Covers OpenAPI definition

📚 Open Library Intelligence - 20M+ Books & Covers API

Open Library Books Scraper

gio21/openlibrary-books-scraper

Search and scrape books on Open Library by title, author, subject, or ISBN. Returns title, authors, first publish year, edition count, ISBNs, cover image, language, ebook access status. Pay per book returned.

Gio

📚 Open Library Book Intelligence - Book & Author Data

benthepythondev/book-intelligence

Extract book metadata from Open Library's catalog of 20+ million books. Search by title, author, subject, or ISBN. Get cover images, ratings, edition counts, and publication data. Perfect for publishers, bookstores, libraries, app developers, and researchers.

ben

Open Library Books Scraper

klondikeking/open-library-books-scraper

Pierrick McD0nald

Open Library Book Scraper

cloud9_ai/openlibrary-scraper

Search and extract book data from Open Library. Get ISBNs, authors, editions, covers for 40M+ books. No API key needed.

cloud9

Books Scraper (Google Books + Open Library)

dami_studio/books-scraper

Searches Google Books and Open Library (no API key) and returns normalized book records: title, authors, publisher, year, ISBN-13, page count, categories, rating, language, cover image, URL, and price (Google Books). Best for building reading lists a

Dami's Studio

5.0

Open Library Scraper — Books, Authors & Editions

openclawmara/openlibrary-scraper

Scrape Open Library (Internet Archive) for books, authors, and editions. Modes: search by title/author/subject, book details by ISBN/OLID, author works, recent additions. Extracts titles, authors, ISBNs, covers, subjects, publish dates, editions. Uses official Search & Works API. No auth.

OpenClaw Mara

Open Library Book Scraper

moving_beacon-owner1/my-actor-80

Extract book data from Open Library, the Internet Archive's open book database featuring over 20 million books, more than 10 million authors, and 40 million editions. Gather titles, authors, cover images, ISBNs, publishers, subjects, ratings, reading statistics, and more.

Jamshaid Arif

OpenLibrary Book Search - Books & Authors

vernacular_reservoir/openlibrary-book-search

Search millions of books from OpenLibrary. Find books by title, author, subject or ISBN. Extract title, authors, publish year, ratings, subjects, publishers, cover image and description. No API key required.

Aleksandrs

Open Library Book Search

agenscrape/open-library-book-search

Search millions of books from Open Library database. Extract book titles, authors, ISBN, publishers, publication years, cover images, and availability status. Perfect for bibliographic research and book databases.