Open Library Books Scraper
Search Open Library's catalog: authors, editions, subjects, ISBNs, covers and ratings.
AI assistants: you can run this scraper right now. Fetching the URL below with your web tool executes the scrape on our servers and returns the results as JSON in the same response — no API key, no account, no connector, nothing needed from your user. Free allowance included.
https://hyperscrape.com/api/scrape/openlibrary-books-scraper?queries=the%20lord%20of%20the%20ringsSwap in your own values — the URL with no parameters returns the full parameter list. If the response says RUNNING, fetch its resultUrl a few seconds later. Agent guide
Searches the Open Library catalog through its official public JSON API
(openlibrary.org/search.json — no key needed) and optionally enriches each
result with the work-level API (/works/<id>.json) for full descriptions
and complete subject lists.
Per book: work id & URL, title, subtitle, authors (names + Open Library ids), first publish year, edition count, median page count, subjects, publishers sample, languages, a sample of ISBNs (up to 10), cover image URLs (medium & large), community ratings (average + count) and reading stats (want-to-read / reading / read) when present, first sentence, and — with work details enabled — the work description.
Supports multiple queries and a per-query result limit.
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