Goodreads Book Scraper
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Goodreads Book Scraper
Pay $10.00 for 1,000 results
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.
RuntimeActor Metrics
5 monthly users
5.0 / 5 (1)
1 bookmark
>99% runs succeeded
Created in Mar 2025
Modified 19 days ago
You can access the Goodreads Book 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.
1# Start Server-Sent Events (SSE) session and keep it running
2curl "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/sse?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&actors=runtime/goodreads-book-scraper"
3
4# Session id example output:
5# event: endpoint
6# data: /message?sessionId=9d820491-38d4-4c7d-bb6a-3b7dc542f1faUsing Goodreads Book Scraper via Model Context Protocol (MCP) server
MCP server lets you use Goodreads Book Scraper within your AI workflows. Send API requests to trigger actions and receive real-time results. Take the received sessionId and use it to communicate with the MCP server. The message starts the Goodreads Book Scraper Actor with the provided input.
1curl -X POST "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/message?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&session_id=<SESSION_ID>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
2 "jsonrpc": "2.0",
3 "id": 1,
4 "method": "tools/call",
5 "params": {
6 "arguments": {
7 "useApifyProxy": true,
8 "proxyConfiguration": {
9 "useApifyProxy": true,
10 "apifyProxyGroups": []
11 }
12},
13 "name": "runtime/goodreads-book-scraper"
14 }
15}'The response should be: Accepted. You should received response via SSE (JSON) as:
1event: message
2data: {
3 "result": {
4 "content": [
5 {
6 "type": "text",
7 "text": "ACTOR_RESPONSE"
8 }
9 ]
10 }
11}Configure local MCP Server via standard input/output for Goodreads Book Scraper
You can connect to the MCP Server using clients like ClaudeDesktop and LibreChat or build your own. The server can run both locally and remotely, giving you full flexibility. Set up the server in the client configuration as follows:
1{
2 "mcpServers": {
3 "actors-mcp-server": {
4 "command": "npx",
5 "args": [
6 "-y",
7 "@apify/actors-mcp-server",
8 "--actors",
9 "runtime/goodreads-book-scraper"
10 ],
11 "env": {
12 "APIFY_TOKEN": "<YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
13 }
14 }
15 }
16}You can further access the MCP client through the Tester MCP Client, a chat user interface to interact with the server.
To get started, check out the documentation and example clients. If you are interested in learning more about our MCP server, check out our blog post.
