Goodreads Review Scraper

Overview

This Apify actor scrapes detailed book reviews from Goodreads. It extracts data like ratings, review text, user information, and more from any Goodreads book page. The actor is priced at $18.99/month and is suitable for book research, opinion analysis, or gathering data for recommendations.

Key Features

• Unlimited Extraction: No hard limit on the number of reviews you can collect.
• Customizable Search: Filter reviews by book URL and set a maximum number of items to scrape.
• Detailed Data: Captures review ID, user name, user ID, profile URL, star rating, and full review text.
• Multiple Export Formats: Download results as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS, or HTML.

How to Use

1. Sign up for an Apify account.
2. Run the actor and provide the input configuration (see below).
3. Start the scraper. It will collect reviews based on your parameters.
4. Once finished, download the dataset in your preferred format from the actor's run console.

Input/Output

Input Configuration:
Provide a JSON object with the following parameters:

{
  "url_link": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1137215",
  "maxitems": 210
}

• url_link: (Required) The full URL of the Goodreads book page.
• maxitems: The maximum number of reviews to scrape.

Output Example:
The actor outputs an array of review objects. Each item contains structured data like this:

{
  "review_id": "kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.RNDBp8w45i5aErLE3Wf0Mg",
  "user_name": "Nancy",
  "user_id": 763271,
  "user_profile": "https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/763271-nancy",
  "rating": 4,
  "review_text": "Dazzling inventions, air pirates, evil bad guys, underground vaults, goggles, daring rescues, gold, Blight gas, a one-armed bartender, a princess, zombies. Oh, what fun! The setting was vividly described and rich in details. The main characters were well developed and fascinating. Briar Wilkes, widow of Leviticus Blue, eccentric inventor"
}

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