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Goodreads Scraper

Extract book ratings, reviews, author info, and reading list data from Goodreads. Powered by spider-browser .

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goodreads.com target

99.5% success rate

~4ms latency

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Extract data in minutes

goodreads-scraper.ts

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1.Best_Books_Ever");
await page.content();

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const books = [];
  document.querySelectorAll("tr[itemtype='http://schema.org/Book']").forEach(el => {
    const title = el.querySelector(".bookTitle span")?.textContent?.trim();
    const author = el.querySelector(".authorName span")?.textContent?.trim();
    const rating = el.querySelector(".minirating")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (title) books.push({ title, author, rating });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: books.length, books: books.slice(0, 20) });
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();