Indigo.ca Book Search Scraper – CAD Prices, ISBN, Stock

Exports indigo.ca search results: books, eBooks, audiobooks and gift items, with CAD price, ISBN and stock. It reads the same public search that the indigo.ca search box uses. No login.

What it returns

For each product:

• Book details: title, ISBN-13, ISBN-10, UPC, format (Hardcover, Paperback, Kobo eBook…), authors, illustrators, translators, publisher, imprint, release date, page count, language, series and number in series.
• Price and sale: price in CAD, and the regular price when the item is on sale.
• Rating: average rating. It is null when the item has no reviews (Indigo sends 0 for those).
• Stock: units available online, and the number of Indigo, Chapters and Coles stores that list stock.
• Other formats: the other formats of the same title, each with its price and ISBN.
• Store details: Indigo category and section, product link and cover image.
• Description: included only if you ask for it.

How to use

1. Add one or more search terms. A title, author, ISBN, series or topic all work.
2. Pick the English or French site, a sort order and, if you want, only some formats (for example Hardcover and Paperback).
3. Set Max products. It is split evenly between the search terms.

Input

Field	Description
keywords	Search terms. Empty or whitespace-only lines stop the run with a clear message before anything is charged.
language	en (default) or fr. See French site below: many links on the French site go to the English site, including for French books.
sort	relevance, price_low, price_high, rating, newest, release_date
formats	Only these formats. Use the English names. On the French site, both the French and the English name are searched.
inStockOnlineOnly	Skip items with no online stock
includeDescription	Add the full description
maxItems	Total products (default 100, up to 50,000)
fetchAll	Save every result, up to 50,000

Output

productId, variantId, sku, isbn13, isbn10, upc, title, format, authors, illustrators, translators, publisher, imprint, releaseDate, pageCount, language, seriesName, seriesPosition, price, compareAtPrice, onSale, currency, rating, onlineStock, inStockOnline, storesWithStock, category, section, productType, brand, featured, adultOnly, formats, formatCount, url, image, description (optional), searchQuery, page, position.

Example (shortened):

{"title": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", "isbn13": "9781408855706", "format": "Paperback", "authors": ["J.K. Rowling"], "publisher": "Bloomsbury USA", "releaseDate": "2014-09-01", "pageCount": 560, "seriesName": "Harry Potter", "seriesPosition": 6, "price": 18.0, "compareAtPrice": null, "rating": 5.0, "onlineStock": 551, "storesWithStock": 152, "formats": [{"format": "Paperback", "price": 18.0, "isbn13": "9781408855706"}, {"format": "Kobo eBook", "price": 14.99, "isbn13": "9781781100257"}], "url": "https://www.indigo.ca/products/harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince"}

Fill rates in a sample

This sample was 100 results for harry potter on the English site, taken on Oct 29, 2026.

• Filled for all 100: title, price, url, image, releaseDate and onlineStock.
• Filled for 89 to 95: isbn13, format, publisher, authors, pageCount, isbn10 and language. The gaps are mostly gift and non-book items.
• rating: 47 of 100. It is empty for items with no ratings.
• storesWithStock above 0: 73 of 100.
• compareAtPrice: 4 of 100. It is only set when the item is on sale.
• More than one format: 48 of 100.

In a 40-product test run on Apify (louise penny and atomic habits, Oct 29, 2026), title, isbn13, price, authors and format were filled for all 40. rating was filled for 15 and onlineStock above 0 for 33.

French site

Indigo's French site is not fully French. In tests on Oct 29, 2026:

• Many links go to the English site. The share of results with an English-site link varies widely by search: from under 10% to over 90% (45% overall across six test searches, Oct 29, 2026). This includes French-language books: for le petit prince, in a 50-result test (Oct 29, 2026), 27 results were French books.
• Some format labels come in English, for example Paperback, Hardcover or Kobo eBook. This Actor translates known format labels to French on the French site (Paperback becomes Couverture souple, Kobo eBook becomes Livre numérique Kobo). Labels it does not know are left as Indigo sent them.
• Titles stay as published. Links are left as Indigo sends them, because the French page does not always exist.

Limits

• Search-result data only. No review text, reviewer names or per-store addresses. Store stock is a count of stores, not a list.
• Indigo's search is forgiving. A misspelled or nonsense term can still return loosely matching items, so check title.
• A blank or whitespace-only search fails the run at once with a clear message, before any request or charge.
• If no products are saved, the run is marked failed, the reason goes in the ERRORS record, and nothing is charged.
• No personal data is collected.

Pricing

Pay per event:

• $0.00075 per product saved.
• $0.0005 per run, charged only after the first product is saved. Runs that save nothing cost nothing.

Other Actors that cover Indigo

Prices were checked through the Apify API on Oct 29, 2026. Start fees for the other Actors are shown at their minimum: one start event. Apify charges those start events per GB of run memory, so they can be higher (the retail tracker's default is 2 GB, which is two events).

Actor	Checked	Price per product	Start fee per run	Notes
yugenox/indigo-scraper	2026-10-29	$0.0015	$0.001	Also sells store-stock ($0.001) and review ($0.0005) events
yugenox/canada-retail-price-tracker	2026-10-29	$0.001	$0.002	Covers Indigo among 74 Canadian stores; search terms or collections only for Indigo. Changes mode costs $0.002 per change plus $0.00001 per product checked
This Actor	2026-10-29	$0.00075	$0.0005, only if something is saved

What a run costs at list prices (start fee at one event):

Products	This Actor	yugenox/canada-retail-price-tracker	yugenox/indigo-scraper
1	$0.00125	$0.003	$0.0025
10	$0.008	$0.012	$0.016
100	$0.0755	$0.102	$0.151
1,000	$0.7505	$1.002	$1.501

On these list prices, this Actor costs less for any number of products: both its per-product price and its start fee are lower than each of the others. If you need review text, per-store stock lists or a price-change feed, one of the other Actors is a better fit.

FAQ

Do I need an Indigo account?

No. It reads the same public search as the indigo.ca search box.

Why is rating empty?

The item has no reviews. Indigo sends 0 for these, and this Actor saves null.

Why do French-site links open the English site?

Indigo's French site links many items, including French books, to the English site. Links are kept as Indigo sends them.

Can I get the book description?

Yes. Turn on includeDescription.

What does it cost?

$0.00075 per product saved, plus $0.0005 per run once the first product is saved. Runs that save nothing cost nothing.