# Changelog of Goodreads Book Scraper (`sian.agency/goodreads-book-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/goodreads-book-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/goodreads-book-scraper.md

## Changelog

All notable changes to Goodreads Book Scraper will be documented in this file.

### \[2026-06-24]

#### 🎉 Goodreads Book Scraper - Launch!

- **Two Extraction Modes** - Get fast, cheap search-result rows with *overview* mode, or full book records with *detail* mode
- **45+ Book Data Points** - Extract title, author, average rating, ratings & reviews count, ISBN/ISBN13, ASIN, pages, publisher, language, genres, series and full description
- **Flexible Search** - Find books by free-text query, by pasted Goodreads search URL, or by exact book id
- **Cover Images & Direct Links** - Every book comes with a thumbnail, full-resolution cover URL and its canonical Goodreads link
- **Pay-Per-Result Pricing** - Only charged for the books you actually extract — no subscriptions

#### 💎 User Benefits

- Build a clean, structured book catalog in minutes instead of writing a scraper
- Enrich internal catalogs with canonical ISBNs, genres and bibliographic metadata
- Benchmark titles by real reader ratings and review counts at scale
- Export straight to JSON, CSV or Excel — no code, no account, no API key

#### 🎯 Use Cases

- Publishers researching comp titles and benchmarking a genre before launch
- Booksellers and app builders seeding catalogs and recommendation engines
- Data teams enriching internal book metadata with ISBN13, ASIN and pages
- Librarians and academics compiling subject and reading-list datasets
- Marketers ranking and comparing titles by ratings and reviews