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📚 Goodreads Book Scraper

easyapi/goodreads-book-scraper
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Extract comprehensive book data from Goodreads search results. Get detailed information about books, authors, ratings, and more. Perfect for market research, data analysis, and building book recommendation systems. 🔍📚

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Scrape detailed book information from Goodreads search results. Perfect for book researchers, publishers, and data analysts who need comprehensive book data.

🎯 Features

  • 📖 Search books by keywords
  • 🔍 Extract detailed book information including:
    • Book title and URL
    • Author details (name, profile URL, Goodreads author status)
    • Cover image URL
    • Rating information (average rating and number of ratings)
    • Publication year
    • Number of editions
  • ⚡ Fast and efficient scraping with built-in pagination handling
  • 🛡️ Advanced browser automation with anti-detection measures
  • 🎚️ Configurable maximum items limit
  • 🌐 Proxy support for reliable data collection

📝 Use Cases

  • 📊 Market research for publishers and authors
  • 📚 Building book recommendation systems
  • 🔍 Competitive analysis of book ratings and popularity
  • 📈 Tracking book performance metrics
  • 🎯 Finding popular books in specific genres or topics

💡 Tips

  • Use specific keywords for more accurate results
  • Set appropriate maxItems limit based on your needs
  • Enable proxy configuration for better success rates
  • Consider rate limits and be respectful to Goodreads servers

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

1{
2    "keywords": [
3        "shaker"
4    ],
5    "maxItems": 50
6}

Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

1[
2    {
3        "keyword": "shaker",
4        "title": "Shaker (Blackwings MC, #5)Teagan Brooks",
5        "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43999679-shaker",
6        "author": {
7            "name": "Teagan Brooks",
8            "url": "https://www.goodreads.comhttps://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18042726.Teagan_Brooks",
9            "isGoodreadsAuthor": true
10        },
11        "cover": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1550046473i/43999679._SY75_.jpg",
12        "rating": {
13            "average": 4.49,
14            "count": 3196
15        },
16        "publishYear": 2019,
17        "editions": 5
18    },
19    ...
20]

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