Datasets:

reapxdev
/

open-library-scraper

license: cc-by-4.0
language:
  - en
pretty_name: Open Library Scraper · Books, Authors, Editions & Subjects
size_categories:
  - 1K<n<10K
tags:
  - reapx
  - web-scraping
  - open-data
  - open-library-scraper
  - open
  - library
  - books
  - authors
  - editions
  - subjects
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: open-library-scraper.jsonl

Open Library Scraper · Books, Authors, Editions & Subjects

Scrape Open Library books, authors, subjects, editions, and metadata via Open Library API. Fast HTTP scraper charging per returned record with tiered pricing.


Rows in this dataset	3,880
Fields	21
Collector runs behind it	50
Most recent observation	2026-08-03

What this is

Every row here was returned by a real run of a public collector. Nothing is generated from a template over a keyword list: a row exists because a run observed it.

Provenance

Each row carries _run_id and _dataset_id, naming the collector run that produced it, so any row can be traced back to the run that observed it. Rows observed by more than one run are deduplicated on content; 720 duplicate observations were collapsed.

Files

open-library-scraper.jsonl — one JSON object per row, the canonical form
open-library-scraper.csv — the same rows flattened; nested values are JSON-encoded within their cell so they round-trip
dataset.json — schema.org Dataset metadata

Loading it

from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("reapxdev/open-library-scraper", split="train")

All sources: https://reapx.dev/data/ · machine-readable index: https://reapx.dev/llms.txt
The collector is a public Apify Actor; agents reach it through https://mcp.apify.com

Licence

Collected from public sources. This metadata and the published pages are CC BY 4.0; the underlying records remain under the terms of their originating source.