Book Data Scraper: ISBN & Title Lookup

Look up books in bulk. Paste a list of ISBNs (from a barcode scanner, an inventory export, a spreadsheet) or title and author searches, and get one clean row per book: title, authors, first publish year, page count, publisher, subjects, languages, reader rating and a cover image URL.

Built for used book sellers, online bookshops, libraries and reading app builders. Scanned a box of books? Turn the ISBN list into ready-to-publish listing data — title, author, pages, cover — in one run, with no signup and no API key.

What you get for each book

• title and authors
• firstPublishYear, pages, publishers, editionCount
• subjects and languages: for categorising your catalogue
• rating and ratingsCount: reader ratings out of 5
• coverUrl: a large cover image, ready for your listing or app
• openLibraryUrl: the book's page for reference

Example output

{
  "input": "9780140328721",
  "mode": "isbn",
  "found": true,
  "title": "Fantastic Mr Fox",
  "authors": ["Roald Dahl"],
  "firstPublishYear": 1970,
  "pages": 96,
  "publishers": ["Puffin"],
  "subjects": ["Foxes", "Fiction", "Juvenile fiction"],
  "rating": 4.16,
  "editionCount": 94,
  "coverUrl": "https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6498519-L.jpg"
}

ISBNs or searches?

• ISBNs: exact, one row per number. ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 both work, dashes and spaces are fine.
• Searches: free text like "atomic habits" or "things fall apart achebe". Set how many best matches you want per search (default 1).

Pricing

$0.002 per book found. ISBNs and searches that match nothing are free, and the first 2 rows of every run are free. Enriching a 1,000 book inventory costs about $2, versus the monthly subscriptions of book seller tools.

How to run it via API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/scrapemint~book-data-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"isbns": ["9780140328721", "9780062316097"], "queries": ["atomic habits"]}'

Frequently asked questions

Where does the data come from? Open Library, the Internet Archive's open catalogue of more than 40 million records. It is the same public dataset behind many library and book apps.

Does it include prices or sales ranks? No. Marketplace prices and ranks live behind retailer sites that block automated access; this tool covers the catalogue data (title, author, pages, cover) that listings need.

An ISBN I scanned was not found. Very new, very local or print-on-demand ISBNs are sometimes missing from the catalogue. Those rows are free and marked found: false so you can handle them separately.

Can I use the cover images? The cover URLs point to Open Library's public cover service, fine for catalogue and listing use.

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