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Open Library Book Metadata

Search and retrieve book metadata from Open Library. Supports keyword search and bulk ISBN lookup. Returns titles, authors, publishers, subjects, covers, and more. Free API, no key needed.

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Open Library Book Metadata — Apify Actor

Search and retrieve book metadata from Open Library, a free, open, and community-edited catalog of books. This actor requires no API key and is ready to run on the Apify platform.

Features

Search mode — keyword search for books (title, author, subject).
ISBN mode — bulk metadata lookup by ISBN-10 or ISBN-13.
Returns: title, authors, publishers, publish date, page count, subjects, cover URL, and description.
Author names are resolved via the Open Library authors API.
Descriptions are fetched from the Open Library works API.
Exponential-backoff HTTP retries (3 attempts) for resilience.
Graceful shutdown on Apify platform abort signals.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
`mode`	`select`	`search`	`search` or `isbn`
`query`	`textfield`	—	Keyword search query (search mode)
`isbns`	`stringList`	—	List of ISBN-10/13 (ISBN mode)
`maxResults`	`number`	20	Max results (1–100)

Output

Each dataset record contains:

Field	Type	Description
`source`	string	`"search"` or `"isbn"`
`olid`	string	Open Library ID
`isbn`	string	Comma-separated ISBNs
`title`	string	Book title
`authors`	string	Author names (comma-separated)
`publishers`	string	Publisher names (comma-separated)
`publishDate`	string	Publication date or year
`pageCount`	integer	Number of pages
`subjects`	string	Comma-separated subjects/genres
`coverUrl`	string	URL to the book cover image
`description`	string	Book description / synopsis

Local development

# Create a virtual environment
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Run locally (requires APIFY_* env vars set by the Apify CLI)
python3 -m my_actor

Deploy

$apify push

API endpoints used

Search: GET https://openlibrary.org/search.json?q={query}&limit={n}
ISBN lookup: GET https://openlibrary.org/isbn/{isbn}.json
Author details: GET https://openlibrary.org/authors/{key}.json
Work details: GET https://openlibrary.org/works/{olid}.json

License

MIT

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