Open Library Book Scraper

Search and extract book data from Open Library — the internet's free, open book catalog with 45M+ records. Get titles, authors, ISBNs, subjects, ratings, reading stats, and cover images. No API key needed.

Features

• 📚 45M+ book records — the largest open book database
• 🔍 Full-text search — by title, author, subject, or ISBN
• ⭐ Ratings & reading stats — average rating, want-to-read, currently reading, already read counts
• 🖼️ Cover images — direct URLs to book cover images
• 🏷️ Rich metadata — subjects, publishers, languages, edition counts, page counts
• 📅 Date filtering — find books published after a specific year
• 🌍 Language filtering — search in specific languages
• ⚡ Official API — no authentication, no blocking

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
searchQueries	string[]	[]	Search by title/author/keyword
isbns	string[]	[]	Fetch by ISBN-10 or ISBN-13
maxResults	number	20	Max books per query
sortBy	string	"relevance"	Sort: relevance/new/old/rating/readinglog/want_to_read
language	string	""	Language filter (eng, spa, fre, etc.)
publishedAfter	number	—	Only books published after this year

Example

{
  "searchQueries": ["artificial intelligence"],
  "maxResults": 10,
  "sortBy": "rating",
  "publishedAfter": 2020,
  "language": "eng"
}

Output

{
  "title": "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach",
  "authors": ["Stuart J. Russell", "Peter Norvig"],
  "firstPublishYear": 1994,
  "numberOfPages": 1144,
  "ratingsAverage": 4.08,
  "wantToReadCount": 530,
  "subjects": ["Artificial intelligence", "Problem solving", ...],
  "coverUrl": "https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/12345-L.jpg",
  "editionCount": 72,
  "isbnCount": 72
}

Use Cases

• Book recommendations — find highly rated books on any topic
• Market research — analyze publishing trends and popular subjects
• Library automation — bulk extract catalog data
• Reading analytics — track reading trends and popularity
• Academic research — find references and bibliographic data
• E-commerce — enrich product data with book metadata