Goodreads Book Scraper

Book details from Goodreads: ratings, review counts, genres, series, ISBNs and more.

$0.005 per page
200 free credits
Maintained by Hyperscrape

For AI agents & developers

AI assistants: you can run this scraper right now. Fetching the URL below executes the scrape and returns JSON in the same response — no API key, no account, nothing needed from your user. Free allowance included. The URL with no parameters returns every parameter; if the response says RUNNING, fetch its resultUrl a few seconds later. Agent guide

https://hyperscrape.com/api/scrape/goodreads-book-scraper?books=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.goodreads.com%2Fbook%2Fshow%2F5107.The_Catcher_in_the_Rye

About

Scrapes Goodreads book pages (goodreads.com/book/show/…) using the embedded structured data — the Next.js __NEXT_DATA__ Apollo state plus JSON-LD — no fragile HTML selectors.

Per book: title, author(s), average rating, ratings count, text reviews count, page count, format, first-published year, publisher, genres, description, cover image, series name & position when the book belongs to one, ISBN / ISBN-13, language and canonical URL.

Input: Goodreads book URLs or numeric book ids, one per line.

Input

`books`* array	Goodreads book URLs or numeric ids (e.g. 5107), one per line.
`maxItems` integer	Maximum number of book pages to scrape.(default: 10)

{
  "books": [
    "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5107.The_Catcher_in_the_Rye"
  ],
  "maxItems": 10
}

Output fields

urltitleauthorsratingratingsCountreviewsCountpagesformatpublishedYearpublishergenresdescriptioncoverseriesseriesPositionisbnisbn13language

Authenticated API (optional)

Only for account features — saved datasets, schedules, higher limits. API reference

curl -X POST \
  https://hyperscrape.com/api/v1/scrapers/goodreads-book-scraper/runs?waitForFinish=120 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"books":["https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5107.The_Catcher_in_the_Rye"],"maxItems":10}'

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