# Search Book Metadata by Title or Author

**Use case:** 

Look up book metadata from Google Books — title, authors, ISBN, publisher, publish date, description and cover image. Structured JSON, no API key.

## Input

```json
{
  "source": "googlebooks",
  "query": "clean code",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "title": {
    "label": "Title",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "authors": {
    "label": "Authors",
    "format": "array"
  },
  "publishedDate": {
    "label": "Published",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "isbn": {
    "label": "ISBN",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "averageRating": {
    "label": "Rating",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "url": {
    "label": "URL",
    "format": "link"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Books Scraper (Google Books + Open Library)](https://apify.com/dami_studio/books-scraper) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/dami_studio/books-scraper) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.