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Goodreads Book List Scraper

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Scrape book lists from Goodreads.com with automatic pagination, extracting titles, authors, ratings, and scores.

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$19.99/month + usage

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📚 Goodreads Book List Scraper

This actor allows you to scrape book lists from Goodreads.com by providing a list URL. It automatically handles pagination and extracts comprehensive book information including titles, authors, ratings, and community scores.

Features

URL-based Scraping: Extract books by providing a complete Goodreads list URL
Automatic Pagination: Automatically clicks through pages until reaching the end or max items limit
Comprehensive Book Data: Extract detailed information about each book including:
- Book title and URL
- Author name and profile URL
- Cover image URL
- Average rating and total ratings count
- List score and vote count
- Rank position in the list

Input Parameters

Field	Type	Required	Description
`searchUrl`	string	Yes	Complete Goodreads list URL to scrape
`maxItems`	integer	No	Maximum number of books to fetch (default: 50)

Output

The output is a list of book objects, each containing:

searchUrl: The original list URL used
bookId: Unique Goodreads book ID
rank: Position in the list
title: Book title
bookUrl: URL to the book page on Goodreads
author: Author name
authorUrl: URL to the author page on Goodreads
coverImageUrl: URL of the book cover image
avgRating: Average rating (e.g., 4.20)
ratingsCount: Total number of ratings
score: List score
votesCount: Number of people who voted for this book
scrapedAt: Timestamp of when the data was scraped

Example output:

[
  {
    "searchUrl": "https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/10048.Non_fiction_Something_for_Everyone",
    "bookId": "48855",
    "rank": 1,
    "title": "The Diary of a Young Girl",
    "bookUrl": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48855.The_Diary_of_a_Young_Girl",
    "author": "Anne Frank",
    "authorUrl": "https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3720.Anne_Frank",
    "coverImageUrl": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1560816565i/48855._SY75_.jpg",
    "avgRating": 4.2,
    "ratingsCount": "4214136",
    "score": "6439",
    "votesCount": "68",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-02-22T03:23:50.601Z"
  }
]

Use Cases

Book recommendation research
Reading list aggregation and comparison
Literary market analysis
Author popularity tracking
Community reading trends analysis

Notes

The actor uses stealth mode to avoid detection
Results are automatically paginated until reaching the end or max items limit
Duplicate books are automatically filtered by book ID
The actor includes random delays between page loads to avoid rate limiting

Start exploring Goodreads book lists today!

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