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Open Library Book Scraper: Books & Ratings

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Search books on Open Library: titles, authors, editions, ratings, covers, ISBNs. Keyless open-license source.

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from $5.40 / 1,000 results

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Cynix Dev

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What it does

Open Library is a free, open digital library catalog (the non-profit behind the Internet Archive's books). Returns clean structured book metadata + community ratings.

Example Inputs

Search books

{ "query": "harry potter", "maxResults": 20 }

Search with a subject filter

{ "query": "dune", "subject": "science fiction", "maxResults": 30 }

Output

Per book: work_id, title, author, first_publish_year, editions_count, rating, ratings_count, cover_url, subjects, isbn, openlibrary_url, scraped_at.

Use Cases

Book discovery / recommendations
Publishing research: editions, authors, publication years
Cover images: direct high-res cover URLs
Library science / catalog enrichment

Data Source

Open Library — open data, CC0/CC-BY sources.

Limitations

Ratings are community-sourced (optional on some books)
Search results are best-effort matches

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