OpenStax Open Textbooks Scraper
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OpenStax Open Textbooks Scraper
Browse OpenStax open license textbooks by subject or free text query. Each record returns title, subject, edition, authors, license, isbn, pages, language, available reading formats, and url. Useful for OER catalogs, curriculum planning, and edtech content discovery.
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📚 OpenStax Textbooks Scraper
🚀 Export OpenStax records in seconds. Pipe results straight into your spreadsheet, dashboard, or data warehouse.
The OpenStax Textbooks Scraper turns the public OpenStax CMS endpoint into a clean structured dataset of open educational textbooks. Every record carries title, subject, edition, authors, license, ISBN, page count, language, and direct download links.
| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| 🎓 Students | Find free textbooks for class. |
| 👩🏫 Educators | Build reading lists from open content. |
| 📚 Librarians | Track new OpenStax releases. |
| 🤖 EdTech builders | Power discovery features with open data. |
📋 What the OpenStax Textbooks Scraper does
- Fetches the public OpenStax feed at
https://openstax.org/apps/cms/api/v2/pages/. - Parses the response and flattens each record into one structured row.
- Casts numeric values to numbers, dates to ISO strings.
- Surfaces upstream errors as a clean
errorrecord instead of crashing. - Pushes everything to the dataset, ready for instant download.
💡 Why it matters: OpenStax publishes the data, but the raw response is awkward to work with. This actor normalizes everything into a flat schema that drops straight into pandas, BigQuery, or a Google Sheet.
📊 Data fields
Each record includes: authors, downloadFormats, edition, isbn, language, license, pages, results, scrapedAt, subject, title, url. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.
⚠️ Good to Know. Free users are capped at 10 records per run as a preview. Paid users can pull up to 1,000,000 records.
🚀 How to use
- Click Try for free.
- Adjust the input filters or leave defaults.
- Click Start. Within seconds, your dataset is ready.
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Disclaimer. This actor scrapes only publicly available data. ParseForge is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any third-party services referenced. Users are responsible for complying with the target site's terms of service and applicable law. Create a free account w/ $5 credit.
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