Abjjad أبجد Book Scraper - Scrape Arabic books and metadata from abjjad.com

Scrapes book data from Abjjad (abjjad.com), the largest Arabic reading and audiobook platform in the Arab world. Given a category/listing page, the scraper collects the books listed on it and returns structured data for each one — including title, author, description, genre, publisher, edition details, and community ratings, all in Arabic.

Why use this scraper?

Abjjad hosts one of the richest catalogs of Arabic-language fiction and non-fiction — novels, short stories, classical literature, translated works, religious books, business books, and more — along with real reader reviews and ratings written in Arabic. This makes it a uniquely valuable source for anything that needs authentic, natural Arabic text at scale.

This scraper makes it easy to collect structured book data and reader-generated content from Abjjad, enabling use cases such as:

• 📚 Building Arabic book catalogs, recommendation engines, and reading apps.
• 📊 Market research on Arabic publishing trends, genres, and popular authors.
• ⭐ Tracking ratings, review counts, and reader engagement over time.
• 🧠 Training and fine-tuning LLMs on natural, native Arabic language — book descriptions, reader reviews, and quotes provide diverse, high-quality Arabic text (including regional dialects in reviews) that is difficult to source at this volume and quality elsewhere.
• 🤖 Powering search, discovery, and analytics tools for Arabic-language content.

Input

The scraper takes one or more start URLs (Abjjad listing/category pages) and a max items limit per URL.

Field	Type	Description
startUrls	array	Abjjad listing/category/detail page URLs to scrape.
maxItems	number	Maximum number of books to scrape per start URL.
proxyConfiguration	object	Optional proxy settings.

Example input

{
  "maxItems": 5,
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.abjjad.com/books/220759001/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%88%D9%82%D8%B5%D8%B5"
    }
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

Output

{
  "url": "https://www.abjjad.com/book/15445088/%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A7/2213150869",
  "bookId": "15445088",
  "editionId": "2213150869",
  "title": "يوتوبيا",
  "authorName": "أحمد خالد توفيق",
  "authorId": "6804753",
  "authorUrl": "https://www.abjjad.com/author/6804753/أحمد-خالد-توفيق",
  "description": "كيف ستكون مصر عام 2023؟ لقد عزَلَ الأغنياء أنفسهم في (يوتوبيا) الساحل الشمالي تحت حراسة المارينز الأمريكيين...",
  "coverImageUrl": "https://cdn.abjjad.com/pub/3b713160-3e4a-4d2e-be30-c52e1ee5756b-192X290.png",
  "coverFullUrl": "https://cdn.abjjad.com/pub/3b713160-3e4a-4d2e-be30-c52e1ee5756b.png",
  "format": "electronic",
  "isFree": false,
  "publishedYear": 2019,
  "pageCount": 176,
  "isbn": "9789770933077",
  "publisherName": "دار الشروق",
  "publisherId": "229155",
  "publisherUrl": "https://www.abjjad.com/publisher/229155/دار-الشروق",
  "mainCategory": {
    "name": "روايات ديستوبيا",
    "url": "https://www.abjjad.com/books/220759001/روايات-وقصص/220759006/روايات-ديستوبيا"
  },
  "subCategories": [
    { "name": "روايات سياسية", "url": "https://www.abjjad.com/books/220759001/روايات-وقصص/220759011/روايات-سياسية" },
    { "name": "روايات اجتماعية", "url": "https://www.abjjad.com/books/220759001/روايات-وقصص/220759012/روايات-اجتماعية" },
    { "name": "روايات خيالية", "url": "https://www.abjjad.com/books/220759001/روايات-وقصص/220759043/روايات-خيالية" }
  ],
  "ratingValue": 4.1,
  "ratingCount": 1575,
  "reviewCount": 1600,
  "communityCount": 11435,
  "featuredQuote": "عندما تشم الحريق ولا تنذر من حولك.. فأنت بشكل ما ساهمت في إشعال الحريق",
  "reviews": [
    {
      "reviewId": "2112880664",
      "reviewerName": "Zainab",
      "reviewerUrl": "https://www.abjjad.com/profile/2094137362/zainab",
      "reviewRating": 5,
      "text": "شعرت بالألم الذي يضرب بالأعماق الوجدانية والفكرية بسبب الكاتب المختلف أحمد خالد توفيق...",
      "date": "2015-12-01T00:00:00",
      "permalink": "https://www.abjjad.com/review/2112880664",
      "agreeCount": 10
    }
  ]
}

Field reference

Field	Type	Description
url	string	Canonical book (edition) page URL.
bookId	string | null	Abjjad's book identifier.
editionId	string | null	Abjjad's edition identifier (a book can have multiple editions).
title	string | null	Book title in Arabic.
authorName	string | null	Author's name in Arabic.
authorId	string | null	Abjjad's author identifier.
authorUrl	string | null	Link to the author's Abjjad profile page.
description	string | null	Book blurb/synopsis in Arabic.
coverImageUrl	string | null	Thumbnail cover image URL.
coverFullUrl	string | null	Full-resolution cover image URL.
format	string | null	Book format, e.g. electronic.
isFree	boolean	Whether the book is free to read without a subscription.
publishedYear	number | null	Year the edition was published.
pageCount	number | null	Number of pages.
isbn	string | null	ISBN-13 of the edition, when available.
publisherName	string | null	Publisher's name in Arabic.
publisherId	string | null	Abjjad's publisher identifier.
publisherUrl	string | null	Link to the publisher's Abjjad page.
mainCategory	object | null	Primary genre/category (name, url).
subCategories	object[]	Additional genre/category tags (name, url).
ratingValue	number | null	Average reader rating out of 5.
ratingCount	number | null	Number of ratings.
reviewCount	number | null	Number of written reviews.
communityCount	number | null	Number of readers who have shelved/interacted with the book.
featuredQuote	string | null	The quote Abjjad highlights on the book page, in Arabic.
reviews	object[]	Reader reviews rendered on the page (see below).
reviews[].reviewId	string | null	Abjjad's review identifier.
reviews[].reviewerName	string | null	Reviewer's display name.
reviews[].reviewerUrl	string | null	Link to the reviewer's Abjjad profile.
reviews[].reviewRating	number | null	Star rating (1–5) the reviewer gave.
reviews[].text	string | null	Full review text, in Arabic (including local dialects).
reviews[].date	string | null	ISO datetime the review was posted.
reviews[].permalink	string | null	Direct link to the review.
reviews[].agreeCount	number | null	Number of readers who agreed with the review.

❓ FAQ

Can I use this data to train Arabic language models? Yes — this is one of the strongest use cases for this scraper. Book descriptions and, especially, reader reviews are natural, native Arabic text written by real people across the Arab world, including regional dialects and informal phrasing that's rare in most Arabic text corpora (which tend to be formal news or government text). This makes Abjjad data well-suited for pretraining, fine-tuning, or evaluating LLMs on conversational and literary Modern Standard Arabic as well as dialect.

Does the scraper work on any Abjjad category? Yes — provide any listing/category URL (e.g. novels, history, religion, business, philosophy) and the scraper paginates through it automatically.

Can I scrape reader reviews, or just book metadata? Both — every book record includes bibliographic metadata (title, author, edition, category, ratings) as well as the reviews rendered on the page. If you only want metadata, the reviews field can simply be dropped downstream.

Is the data only in Arabic? Titles, descriptions, categories, and reviews are all in Arabic, as published on Abjjad. Some author/publisher names may include Latin-script transliterations where Abjjad provides them.

Can I track rating and review trends over time? Yes — by scheduling runs on Apify, you can monitor how a book's rating, rating count, and review count change over time.

Can I scrape a specific book directly? Yes, the scraper currently starts from both listing/category and detail pages.

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🛠️ Need a custom extension?

Need this scraper adapted to your use case — extra fields, full review history, another Abjjad section, or a different output format? Just reach out to us by email and we'll be happy to help.