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$0.4/1K 🔥 Open Library search scraper! Find books by title, author or subject with ratings, editions & covers. No key. JSON, CSV, Excel or API in seconds. Build book discovery apps ⚡

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Search mode

mode

Optional

What kind of discovery to run. 'search' does a free-text query across titles, authors and subjects, 'author' searches by author name only, 'subject' searches by subject/genre only. The matching input field below is used for the selected mode.

Type:string

Default:search

Options:

searchauthorsubject

Search queries

queries

Optional

Free-text search terms used when mode is 'search'. Anything you would type into the Open Library search box works: book titles, series names, keywords or author names, e.g. 'dune' or 'neuromancer'.

Type:array

Default:

[
  "dune",
  "neuromancer"
]

Author names

authors

Optional

Author names used when mode is 'author'. Each entry returns the works attributed to that author, e.g. 'Ursula K. Le Guin' or 'Isaac Asimov'.

Type:array

Subjects

subjects

Optional

Subjects or genres used when mode is 'subject'. Spaces are converted to underscores automatically, e.g. 'science_fiction', 'fantasy' or 'historical fiction'.

Type:array

Max items

maxItems

Optional

Maximum number of books to push to the dataset across all queries, authors or subjects combined. Results are deduplicated by Open Library work key. Default 100, maximum 1000.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:1000

Default:100

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