You can access the Google Books Search programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {}
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("urban_quidnunc/google-books-search").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
15for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
16    print(item)
17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Google Books Search | Apify Actor API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Google Books Search API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

Google Books Search API in JavaScript

Google Books Search API through CLI

Google Books Search OpenAPI definition

Google Books Search API

Google Books Search

comical_fahrenheit/google-books-search

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Audible Book Search Scraper 📚

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A powerful scraper that extracts comprehensive audiobook information from Audible search results, including titles, authors, narrators, ratings, and pricing. Perfect for market research, price monitoring, and content analysis. 🎧📚

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(1)

AI Search Tool - Real-Time Web Search

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Give your AI agents real-world knowledge. This Actor provides high-quality web, news, image, video, and book search results using a multi-backend DuckDuckGo–powered infrastructure, with automatic fallbacks to Brave, Bing, Yahoo, Google (where available).

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Openlibrary Book Intelligence

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Search and extract book data from Open Library's database of 20+ million books. Get titles, authors, publishers, publication dates, ISBNs, covers, subjects, and edition info. Search by title, author, ISBN, or subject. Free alternative to Google Books API.

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Etsy Scraper

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Extract product data efficiently from Etsy's massive handmade and vintage marketplace. Scraping full detail pages can be slow. For the fastest results and high-volume data collection, we strongly recommend scraping listings only to bypass deep page loads. Perfect for trend and price monitoring!

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4.5

(2)

Web Search MCP Server

abotapi/ai-search-mcp-server

An Apify MCP Server that provides real-time web search capabilities for AI agents via the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

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Open Library Book Finder 📚

shahidirfan/Open-Library-Book-Finder

Seamlessly extract book details, authors, and editions from Open Library. This lightweight actor allows you to build comprehensive bibliographic databases or track literary data efficiently. For consistent results and to handle high-volume requests, using residential proxies is recommended.

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Open Library Scraper

parseforge/open-library-scraper

Comprehensive scraper for Open Library to extract books, authors, subjects, and list data from the Internet Archive’s platform. Supports multiple search types and ebook filtering, providing automated, structured access to Open Library’s extensive bibliographic collection.