Google Books Scraper
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Google Books Scraper
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Extract data from Google Books. Search for Books, Magazines and Newspapers, search by titles, author, subject, language, publish date, ISBNs, or keywords to preform a fuzzy search, result includes book title, description, book link url, authors, publication date.
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You can access the Google Books Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.
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478}Google Books Scraper OpenAPI definition
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