Goodreads Quotes Scraper – Books & Authors
Pricing
from $1.00 / 1,000 scraped results
Looking for viral-worthy quotes? Extract up to 2,000 from any Goodreads book or author — sorted by most likes so the best ones surface first. Paste a URL, set your limit, and export with author, title, tags, and like count as CSV or JSON.
You can access the Goodreads Quotes Scraper – Books & Authors 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 API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = { "urls": [9 "https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1885647",10 "https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/16667.Isaac_Asimov",11 ] }12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish14run = client.actor("groundworklabs/goodreads-books-and-authors-quotes-extractor").call(run_input=run_input)15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)17print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")18for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():19 print(item)20
21# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Goodreads Quotes Scraper – Books & Authors API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: