How much does Search Book Metadata by Title or Author cost?

$0.001 per book — $1 per 1,000. Billing is pay-per-result on your own Apify account: no subscription, and a run that returns nothing costs nothing.

What do I need to provide to run Search Book Metadata by Title or Author?

Required input: Search query (string). 5 further optional settings let you narrow the run.

Do I need to code to use Search Book Metadata by Title or Author?

No. It is a ready-to-run cloud tool: open it on Apify, fill in the form, click Run, and download the results. Everything runs on Apify's servers, so there is nothing to install or host.

Search Book Metadata by Title or Author

Q: What data does Search Book Metadata by Title or Author return?

A structured dataset with 16 fields per record, including authors, averageRating, categories, coverImage, description, details, isbn, language, pageCount, price, publishedDate, publisher. Export it as JSON, CSV or Excel, or send it straight to your app, a database or an AI agent.

Look up book metadata from Google Books — title, authors, ISBN, publisher, publish date, description and cover image. Structured JSON, no API key.

$0.001 per book ($1 / 1,000)

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How it works

1
Open it on Apify
Hit Run on Apify — it opens the tool in the cloud, no install.
2
Set the inputs
Adjust source, query, googleApiKey (sensible defaults are pre-filled).
3
Click Run
The tool runs on Apify’s cloud and collects the data for you.
4
Export the results
Download as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pipe straight into your app, Google Sheets, or an AI agent.

Pricing

$0.001 per book = $1 per 1,000

You are charged for	When	Price
Book returned	Charged per book returned.	$0.001

Pay-per-event pricing: you are billed per result, not per subscription — a run that returns nothing costs nothing beyond the start fee. Billing is handled by Apify on your own account. These are the live Apify store prices, in effect since 2026-06-12, and they are what you are actually charged.

Inputs

Field	What it does	Type
`source`	Which book catalog to search. Open Library is the reliable keyless source. Google Books returns descriptions and prices but its keyless mode shares one global Google project whose daily quota is usually exhausted (HTTP 429) - supply your own free API key below, or the actor falls back to Open Library automatically. Output is normalized identically for both.	string
`query`	Keywords to search for, e.g. "clean code", "the hobbit", or "isbn:9780132350884". Required.	string
`googleApiKey`	Optional. Only used when Source = Google Books. Keyless Google Books calls are metered against one shared anonymous Google project used by the whole internet, and its daily quota is usually already spent (HTTP 429 from every IP - a proxy does not help). A free key from console.cloud.google.com (enable the Books API, create an API key) puts the requests on your own quota. Leave empty to use Open Library instead.	string
`maxItems`	Maximum number of unique books to return. Results are paginated automatically and deduplicated by ISBN (or title + author).	integer
`notionConnector`	Optional. Write each result as a page into your Notion when the run finishes. Authorize a Notion connector once in Settings → API & Integrations → MCP connectors, then pick it here. Leave empty to skip (default) — results are always saved to the dataset regardless.	string
`notionParentId`	Optional. The Notion data source ID of the database to write into (only used if a Notion connector is set). Leave empty to create the pages privately in your workspace instead.	string

What you get

A structured dataset — each result includes fields like:

authorsaverageRatingcategoriescoverImagedescriptiondetailsisbnlanguagepageCountpricepublishedDatepublisherqueryratingsCounttitleurl

Export every run as JSON, CSV or Excel, or send it to your app, a database, Google Sheets, or an AI agent.

More use cases for Books Scraper (Google Books + Open Library)

Where this tool sits

Categories: Media & Entertainment Data