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Scrape Goodreads Book — Data, Details & Metadata

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Scrape goodreads book data at scale with this powerful Apify actor. Extracts data, details & metadata with automatic pagination and proxy rotation. Perfect for market research, competitive intelligence, and data-driven decision making.

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Goodreads Book Scraper

Scrape Goodreads Books — Ratings, Reviews & Genre Data

What does Goodreads Book Scraper do?

This actor scrapes Goodreads to extract detailed book information based on your search query. It collects book titles, authors, average ratings, ratings counts, reviews counts, publication years, description snippets, genres, image URLs, and book URLs.

Features

Search books by keyword, author, or title
Extract comprehensive book metadata including ratings and genres
Full detail extraction from individual book pages
Automatic pagination handling
Configurable maximum results
Puppeteer-based scraping for JavaScript-rendered content

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
searchQuery	string	"science fiction"	The search term to look for books
maxResults	integer	50	Maximum number of books to scrape

Example Input

{
    "searchQuery": "science fiction",
    "maxResults": 50
}

Output

Each scraped book includes:

Field	Description
title	Book title
author	Author name
rating	Average rating (e.g., 4.25)
ratingsCount	Total number of ratings
reviewsCount	Total number of reviews
publicationYear	Year the book was published
description	Description snippet (up to 1000 chars)
genres	Array of genre tags
imageUrl	Book cover image URL
bookUrl	URL to the Goodreads book page
scrapedAt	Timestamp of when the data was scraped

Example Output

{
    "title": "Dune",
    "author": "Frank Herbert",
    "rating": 4.25,
    "ratingsCount": "1,023,456",
    "reviewsCount": "45,678",
    "publicationYear": 1965,
    "description": "Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides...",
    "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Classics"],
    "imageUrl": "https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/example.jpg",
    "bookUrl": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/234225.Dune",
    "scrapedAt": "2024-01-15T10:30:00.000Z"
}

Cost of Usage

Running this actor on the Apify platform typically costs less than $1.00 per 100 results due to Puppeteer browser overhead.

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