Goodreads Scraper
Spider read goodreads.com in 285 ms without a browser and returned 263 lines of clean markdown.
Continue with Amazon](https://www.goodreads.com/ap/signin?identityProvider=LoginWithAmazon&language=en_US&openid.assoc_handle=amzn_goodreads_web_lwa&openid.claimed_id=http://specs.openid.net/auth/2.0/identifier_select&openid.identity=http://specs.openid.net/auth/2.0/identifier_select&openid.mode=checkid_setup&openid.ns=http://specs.openid.net/auth/2.0&openid.pape.max_auth_age=0&openid.return_to=https://www.goodreads.com/ap-handler/sign-in?IDP=LoginWithAmazon&relyingParty=GOODREADS&siteState=eyJyZXR1cm5fdXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZHJlYWRzLmNvbS8ifQ==)[**## Deciding what to read next? You’re in the right place. Tell us what titles or genres you’ve enjoyed in the past, and we’ll give you surprisingly insightful recommendations. ## What are your friends reading? Chances are your friends are discussing their favorite (and least favorite) books on Goodreads. ## What will *you* discover? Because Deborah liked… She discovered: Historical Fiction Because ♥Meagan♥ liked… She discovered: Science Fiction, Dystopia ## Search and browse books Art Biography Business Children's Christian Classics Comics Cookbooks Ebooks Fantasy Fiction Graphic Novels Historical Fiction History Horror Memoir Music Mystery Nonfiction Poetry Psychology Romance Science Science Fiction Self Help Sports Thriller Travel Young Adult More genres ## Quotes“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”“So many books, so little time.”“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”The same call, in code.
The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on goodreads.com.
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");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();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();Ready for volume? Get an API key →
Fields you can pull.
Spider names these from the page. The capture above came back as markdown; the same
call with return_format: "json" returns them as keys.
What goodreads.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000106 to fetch. Pricing is $1 per GB of pre-transformation bandwidth plus $0.001 per CPU minute, so a page like this one lands at a fraction of a cent. Failed requests are billed at $0.
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Start scraping goodreads.com.
You already have the call. A key raises the rate limit and turns on browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency. Balance never expires, and top-ups go through secure checkout.