# Author Book List — Full Bibliography

**Use case:** 

Search an author on Goodreads and get every book with rating, reviews, ISBN, page count, publisher, language, genres and series position. CSV or JSON.

## Input

```json
{
  "scrapeMode": "detail",
  "searchMode": "byQuery",
  "query": "stephen king",
  "searchUrls": [
    "https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=dune&tab=books"
  ],
  "bookIds": [
    "5907",
    "44767458"
  ],
  "maxResults": 10,
  "maxPages": 1
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "thumbnail": {
    "label": "🖼️ Thumbnail",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "id": {
    "label": "🆔 Book ID",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "title": {
    "label": "📕 Title",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "author": {
    "label": "✍️ Author",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "avg_rating": {
    "label": "⭐ Average Rating",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "ratings_count": {
    "label": "👥 Ratings Count",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "reviews_count": {
    "label": "💬 Reviews Count",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "isbn": {
    "label": "📘 ISBN",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "isbn13": {
    "label": "📗 ISBN-13",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "asin": {
    "label": "🔖 ASIN",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "num_pages": {
    "label": "📄 Pages",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "publication_year": {
    "label": "📅 Publication Year",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "publisher": {
    "label": "🏢 Publisher",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "language": {
    "label": "🌐 Language",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "book_format": {
    "label": "📚 Format",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "genres": {
    "label": "🏷️ Genres",
    "format": "array"
  },
  "series": {
    "label": "📦 Series",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "series_position": {
    "label": "🔢 Series Position",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "description": {
    "label": "📝 Description",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "url": {
    "label": "🔗 Goodreads URL",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "web_url": {
    "label": "🌍 Web URL",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "cover_image": {
    "label": "🖼️ Cover Image",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "image_count": {
    "label": "📷 Image Count",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "source": {
    "label": "🧭 Source",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "images": {
    "label": "🖼️ Images",
    "format": "array"
  },
  "metadata": {
    "label": "ℹ️ Run Metadata",
    "format": "object"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Goodreads Book Scraper](https://apify.com/sian.agency/goodreads-book-scraper.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/sian.agency/goodreads-book-scraper.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


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