📚 ViaLibri Scraper

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-05

Collect rare and second-hand book listings from ViaLibri, the world's largest aggregator of antiquarian and used books from 190+ dealers worldwide. Download full book catalogs with price, dealer details, and condition information without any coding. Perfect for book dealers monitoring competitive inventory, collectors tracking availability across dealers, or researchers analyzing rare book market trends.

The ViaLibri Scraper collects rare book listings from the world's largest dealer network, up to 1,000,000 books per run, with complete price, dealer, and publication data.

✨ What Does It Do

• 🖼️ Book Images - Download cover artwork and publication visuals for product displays and cataloging
• 📝 Title & Author - Extract complete publication metadata including title, author, and description for inventory management
• 📅 Publication Year - Filter and organize books by release date to identify specific editions and historical value
• 💰 Price Data - Capture price from multiple aggregators and international dealers in original currencies
• 👤 Dealer Information - Collect dealer names, locations, and IDs to compare inventory across 190+ sources
• 🔗 Direct Links - Get links to dealer catalogs and source listings for quick reference
• 📊 Listing Type - Identify new, used, and rare condition categories to segment your inventory

🔧 Input

• Max Items - Set how many book listings to collect. Free users get up to 100 per run, paid plans support up to 1,000,000
• Publication Year - Filter results to a single year between 1455 through 2024 to find books from a specific era
• Year From - Start year for range searches, pair with Year To to search multiple years at once
• Year To - End year for range searches, pair with Year From for inclusive date filtering
• Proxy Configuration - Enable residential proxies for stable access to large datasets

Example input:

{
  "maxItems": 1000,
  "yearFrom": 1800,
  "yearTo": 1850,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  }
}

📊 Output

Each book listing includes up to 15 data fields. Download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

🖼️ Book Image	📝 Title	👤 Author
📅 Year Published	💰 Price Amount	🌍 Currency
👤 Dealer Name	📍 Dealer Location	🔗 Source Link
📋 Listing Type	🎯 Dealer ID	📝 Description
🔗 External Links	✅ ViaLibri URL	📅 Created Date

💎 Why Choose the ViaLibri Scraper?

Feature	Our Actor	Similar Scrapers
Covers 190+ dealer sources in single run	✔️	❌
Filter by publication year or date range	✔️	Partial
Download complete listing with dealer location	✔️	Partial
Extract price data in original currencies	✔️	❌
Residential proxy support pre-configured	✔️	❌
Up to 1,000,000 books per paid run	✔️	❌
No setup required, runs directly from browser	✔️	❌
Export JSON, CSV, Excel natively	✔️	Partial
Track book IDs and dealer IDs for deduplication	✔️	❌
Real-time pagination handling for large datasets	✔️	Partial

📋 How to Use

No technical skills required. Follow these simple steps:

1. Sign Up: Create a free account with $5 credit
2. Find the Tool: Search for "ViaLibri Scraper" in the Apify Store and configure your input
3. Run It: Click "Start" and watch your results appear

That's it. No coding, no setup, no complicated configuration. Now you can export your data in CSV, Excel, or JSON format.

🎯 Business Use Cases

• 📊 Book Dealers - Monitor competitor inventory across major dealers to adjust price and identify gaps in your own catalog
• 🔬 Rare Book Researchers - Collect comprehensive historical publication data from 1455 to 2024 to analyze market trends and availability patterns
• 💼 Acquisition Managers - Source rare editions across multiple dealers simultaneously and compare prices before placing bulk orders

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🎯	Built for the job. Scoped specifically to this data source so you skip the parser engineering entirely.
🔖	Structured output. Clean, typed fields ready for analysis, dashboards, or downstream pipelines.
⚡	Fast. Optimized request patterns return results in seconds, not minutes.
🔁	Always fresh. Every run pulls live data, so the dataset reflects the source as of run time.
🌐	No infra to manage. Apify handles proxies, retries, scaling, scheduling, and storage.
🛡️	Reliable. Battle-tested across many runs and edge cases, with graceful error handling.
🚫	No code required. Configure in the UI, run from CLI, schedule via cron, or call from any language with the Apify SDK.

📊 Production-grade structured data without the engineering overhead of building and maintaining your own scraper.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ ViaLibri Scraper (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	Full source coverage	Live per run	Source-native filters supported	⚡ 2 min
Build your own scraper	Engineering hours	Full once built	Whenever you maintain it	Custom code	🐢 Days to weeks
Paid managed APIs	$$$ monthly	Vendor-defined	Live	Vendor-defined	⏳ Hours
Third-party data dumps	Varies	Subset, often stale	Periodic	None	🕒 Variable

Pick this Actor when you want broad coverage, server-side filtering, and no pipeline maintenance.

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🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the ViaLibri Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Configure the input fields in the form (or paste a JSON), then set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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💼 Business use cases

📊 Data & Analytics Build trend reports and dashboards from live source data Feed BI tools, warehouses, and ML pipelines with structured records Run periodic snapshots to track changes over time Compare segments, regions, or categories with consistent fields	🏢 Operations & Strategy Monitor competitor moves, pricing, and inventory shifts Build internal directories and lookup tools backed by current data Power workflows that depend on fresh source records Cut manual data-gathering time from hours to minutes
🎯 Marketing & Growth Identify market opportunities and trending topics Research target audiences and customer personas at scale Power lead-generation pipelines with verified records Track sentiment, reviews, or social signals over time	🛠️ Engineering & Product Prototype features that need real-world data without owning a crawler Replace fragile in-house scrapers with a managed Actor Wire datasets into your apps via the Apify API or webhooks Skip the proxy, retry, and parsing maintenance entirely

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

💳 Do I need a paid Apify plan to run this actor?

No. You can start right now on the free Apify plan, which includes $5 in free monthly credit. That is enough to run this actor several times and explore the output before committing to anything. Paid plans unlock higher limits, more concurrent runs, and larger datasets. Create a free Apify account here to get started.

🚨 What happens if my run fails or returns no results?

Failed runs are not charged. If the source site changes, proxies get rate-limited, or a specific input matches nothing, re-run the actor or open our contact form and we will investigate. You can also check the run log in the Apify console to see why the run stopped.

📏 How many items can I scrape per run?

Free users are limited to 10 items per run so you can preview the output and confirm the actor works for your use case. Paid users can raise maxItems up to 1,000,000 per run. Upgrade here if you need full scale.

🕒 How fresh is the data?

Every run fetches live data at the moment of execution. There is no cache or delay: the records you get reflect what the source returned at that moment. Schedule the actor to maintain a rolling snapshot of the data you need.

🧑‍💻 Can I call this actor from my own code?

Yes. Apify exposes every actor as a REST endpoint and ships first-class SDKs for Node.js and Python. You can start a run, read the dataset, and handle webhooks from your own app in a few lines. All you need is your Apify API token.

📤 How do I export the data?

Every Apify dataset can be downloaded in one click from the console as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel, HTML, XML, or RSS. You can also pull results programmatically via the Apify API or stream them into BigQuery, S3, and other destinations through built-in integrations.

📅 Can I schedule the actor to run automatically?

Yes. Use the Apify scheduler to run the actor on any cadence, from hourly to monthly. Results are saved to your dataset and can be delivered to webhooks, email, Slack, cloud storage, or automation tools such as Zapier and Make.

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🔌 Integrate with any app

ViaLibri Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe results into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes. Push fresh data into your product backend, or alert your team in Slack.

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🚀 Ready to Start?

Create a free account with $5 credit and collect your first 100 results for free. No coding, no setup.

🆘 Need Help?

• Check the FAQ section above for common questions
• Visit the Apify support page for documentation and tutorials
• Contact us to request a new scraper, propose a custom project, or report an issue at Tally contact form

⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by ViaLibri or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

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