Open Library Scraper - Books, Authors & Editions
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from $0.55 / 1,000 book scrapeds
Open Library Scraper - Books, Authors & Editions
Search Open Library (openlibrary.org) for books: title, authors, first publish year, edition count, ISBN, publisher, subjects, ratings, page count, cover image and read/borrow access. Search by keyword. No API key, runs through Apify Proxy.
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Open Library Scraper - Books, Authors & Editions
Search Open Library (openlibrary.org, from the Internet Archive) for books. Search by title, author, subject or keyword and get clean rows with authors, first publish year, edition count, ISBN, publisher, subjects, ratings, page count, cover image and read/borrow access. No API key.
What you get per book
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
title / url / id | Title, Open Library work URL, and work id |
authors / firstPublishYear / editionCount | Authors, first publication year, number of editions |
isbn / publisher / languages | An ISBN, publisher and languages |
subjects | Up to 10 subject tags |
ratingsAverage / ratingsCount / pagesMedian | Community rating, rating count and median page count |
ebookAccess / hasFullText / coverImage / iaId | Ebook availability, cover image and Internet Archive id |
firstSentence | Opening sentence (when recorded) |
Input
- Search terms - title, author, subject or keyword, one per line.
- Import from a file - paste a list, or link a public
.txt/.csv, a Google Sheet/Drive link, or an Apify key-value-store record. - Output fields - trim every record to exactly the columns you need.
Leave everything empty and the run returns a small free sample so you can see the shape first.
Reliability
Reads the official Open Library search API directly. Open Library is a community service with variable response times, so the actor uses a generous timeout and retries; a search that genuinely returns nothing, or an import that cannot be read, bills $0 and says why. Long runs stop cleanly before the timeout.
Honest limits
firstSentenceandhasFullTextare populated only where Open Library has the data - many titles have no recorded first sentence, and print-only books have no ebook copy.- Open Library's endpoint can be slow under load; the actor retries, but very large runs take proportionally longer.
Pricing
$0.001 per book on the FREE tier (tiered pricing lowers it with volume). Only books actually saved are billed; empty searches and unreadable imports cost nothing.
Output views
- Books - title, authors, year, edition count, rating and the Open Library URL.
Use with AI assistants (MCP)
Available through the Apify MCP server - an agent can look up a book's editions and ISBNs, enrich a reading list, or pull a subject's catalog in one call.
