Pricing

$29.00/month + usage

Goodreads Book Scraper

Goodreads Book Scraper is an Apify Actor that extracts book details from Goodreads search results. It retrieves the title, author, rating, ratings count, published year, editions count, book URL, and cover image URL, outputting the data in structured JSON format.

Pricing

$29.00/month + usage

Rating

1.1

(2)

Developer

scraping automation

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

19 days ago

Last modified

Quick start

Set searchTerm (required).
Optionally set bookMax and enableDetailedScraping.
Run the Actor and read results from the default dataset.

Output

Where results are stored

Dataset: results are written to the default dataset.
Run output: the Actor writes an OUTPUT record to the default key-value store so the Output tab is enabled and includes dataset/log links.

Dataset item types

Each dataset item is one of:

Book row (found: true): scraped book data.
Diagnostic row (found: false): explains why no book rows were produced.

Common diagnostic reasons

reason	meaning
`NO_RESULTS`	No matching books were found for the query.
`BLOCKED_OR_CAPTCHA`	Goodreads likely blocked automation (captcha / unusual traffic / sign-in wall).
`BOOKS_SELECTOR_NOT_FOUND`	Goodreads UI/layout changed, or the page did not render book rows.
`PAGE_BODY_NOT_FOUND`	Navigation/response issue (page body not available).

Book fields

Core fields (always present on book rows):

title, author, rating, ratingsCount, published, editions, url, coverUrl

Detailed fields (when enableDetailedScraping = true, best-effort):

pages, format, firstPublished, currentlyReading, wantToRead, description, genres, authorBooks, authorFollowers

Input

All fields and defaults are defined in .actor/input_schema.json. Most-used options:

Required

searchTerm (string): Goodreads query (keyword/title/author/ISBN).

Timeouts (advanced)

navigationTimeout (ms): timeout for search page navigation.
requestHandlerTimeout (ms): max time to process one search results page.
detailNavigationTimeoutMs (ms): timeout for individual book detail pages.

Usage examples

Keyword search (fast)

{
  "searchTerm": "architecture",
  "bookMax": 20,
  "enableDetailedScraping": false
}

ISBN lookup (graceful when not found)

{
  "searchTerm": "978-2-07-061275-845645646",
  "bookMax": 5,
  "enableDetailedScraping": false,
  "stopOnNoResults": true
}

Detailed scraping (richer fields)

{
  "searchTerm": "Brunelleschi's Dome",
  "bookMax": 5,
  "enableDetailedScraping": true,
  "detailNavigationTimeoutMs": 30000
}

Notes / limitations

Goodreads may rate-limit or block automated access. When that happens, the dataset will include a diagnostic row with found: false and reason: "BLOCKED_OR_CAPTCHA".

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