AbeBooks Book Listings Scraper - Prices

AbeBooks Book Listings Scraper - Prices pulls structured data from AbeBooks and returns it as a clean dataset you can export as JSON, CSV or Excel. It scrapes AbeBooks search results and returns one row per book listing with title, author, price, condition, publisher, seller, shipping cost and the direct listing URL.

No API key, no login. Click Start and it works with the prefilled input.

What does AbeBooks Book Listings Scraper - Prices do?

It queries AbeBooks and returns one row per record, with only the fields that matter. Runs on the Apify platform, so you get an API endpoint, scheduling, monitoring and integrations (Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, webhooks) without maintaining any infrastructure.

Why use it?

• AbeBooks data without the plumbing: no proxy setup, no pagination code, no scraping maintenance.
• Schedule it to monitor changes daily or weekly and trigger alerts on new records.
• Feed it straight into a spreadsheet, database, or an AI agent via the Apify API or MCP server.
• Runs in seconds and returns a typed dataset that is ready for analysis.

How to use it

1. Click Try for free / Start.
2. Leave the default input to see a sample run, or type your own values (see Input below).
3. Press Start and wait a few seconds.
4. Open the Output tab and download as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
query	string	"harry potter"	Book title, author or keyword, e.g. harry potter.
maxResults	integer	20	Maximum number of book listings to return.

Example input:

{
  "query": "harry potter",
  "maxResults": 5
}

Output

One item per record. Sample:

{
  "title": "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, Book 1)",
  "author": "J.K. Rowling",
  "price": "US$ 12.79",
  "condition": "New",
  "publisher": "Published by Scholastic US, US, 2023",
  "seller": "Rarewaves USA"
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

Data fields

Field	Type	Meaning
title	string	Title
author	string	Author
price	string	Price
condition	string	Condition
publisher	string	Publisher
seller	string	Seller
shipping	string	Shipping
url	string	Listing URL

How much does it cost to run?

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing: you pay per result item pushed to the dataset, and nothing for an empty run. Each run is a few seconds of compute, so typical costs are fractions of a cent per run, and the Apify free tier covers plenty of testing.

Tips and advanced options

• Raise maxResults for a bigger pull; the Actor pages through the source for you.
• Schedule it (e.g. every morning) and combine with a webhook to get only the new records.
• Add the Actor to an AI agent through the Apify MCP server for natural-language queries.

FAQ, disclaimers and support

• Is this legal? It uses publicly available data from AbeBooks. You are responsible for how you use the data and for complying with the source's terms.
• It returned nothing? Use a book title, author or keyword, e.g. harry potter or tolkien. Prices are shown in the currency AbeBooks serves for your run location.
• Something broken? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab. Data sources change and get fixed quickly.
• Need a custom variant (extra fields, a different source, a scheduled report)? Get in touch through the Issues tab.