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Try the Goodreads Genre Shelf API

Test Crawlora's Goodreads Genre Shelf API with realistic prefilled parameters. Generate a cURL request, inspect the expected structured JSON response, and open the full docs or pricing page when you are ready to integrate this public web data extraction endpoint into your application.

Endpoint facts

Method: GET
API path: /goodreads/genre/{name}
Platform: Goodreads
Auth: apiKey
Credits: 2 credits/request
Required params: name

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Prefilled cURL

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/goodreads/genre/<name>" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Request parameters visible to crawlers

Parameter	Type	Required	Prefilled value	Description
name (path)	string	Yes		Goodreads genre/shelf tag

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "name": "fantasy",
    "books": [
      {
        "id": "42844155",
        "title": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)",
        "author": "J.K. Rowling",
        "author_id": "1077326",
        "average_rating": 4.47,
        "ratings_count": 11710306,
        "publication_year": 1997,
        "shelved_count": 89892,
        "uri": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42844155-harry-potter-and-the-philosopher-s-stone"
      },
      {
        "id": "5907",
        "title": "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)",
        "author": "J.R.R. Tolkien",
        "author_id": "656983",
        "average_rating": 4.3,
        "ratings_count": 4585794,
        "publication_year": 1937,
        "shelved_count": 73195,
        "uri": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5907.The_Hobbit"
      }
    ]
  },
  "source_url": "https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/fantasy"
}

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GETapiKey2 credits/requestgoodreads.genreResponseDocGoodreads

GET /goodreads/genre/{name}

Get a Goodreads genre shelf

Returns up to 50 books on a Goodreads genre/shelf tag page (e.g. fantasy, romance, science-fiction), Goodreads' credential-free per-tag "top books" view: title, author, average rating, ratings count, publication year, and how many times the book was shelved under this specific tag. Goodreads' genre/shelf taxonomy is an open, user-generated folksonomy of thousands of tags, not a small fixed list, so there is no directory endpoint — pass any known tag slug, e.g. from a book's genres[] field or a value seen on goodreads.com. There is no pagination beyond the first 50.

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Path parameters

name

requiredstring

Goodreads genre/shelf tag

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Sample responseGET

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{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "name": "fantasy",
    "books": [
      {
        "id": "42844155",
        "title": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)",
        "author": "J.K. Rowling",
        "author_id": "1077326",
        "average_rating": 4.47,
        "ratings_count": 11710306,
        "publication_year": 1997,
        "shelved_count": 89892,
        "uri": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42844155-harry-potter-and-the-philosopher-s-stone"
      },
      {
        "id": "5907",
        "title": "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)",
        "author": "J.R.R. Tolkien",
        "author_id": "656983",
        "average_rating": 4.3,
        "ratings_count": 4585794,
        "publication_year": 1937,
        "shelved_count": 73195,
        "uri": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5907.The_Hobbit"
      }
    ]
  },
  "source_url": "https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/fantasy"
}

Endpoint details

Method: GET
Path: /goodreads/genre/{name}
Authentication: apiKey
Credit cost: 2 credits/request
Platform: Goodreads
Parameters: 2 documented fields

Request parameters

name:pathx-api-key:header

Response schema fields

codedatadata.booksdata.books[].authordata.books[].author_iddata.books[].average_ratingdata.books[].iddata.books[].publication_yeardata.books[].ratings_countdata.books[].shelved_countdata.books[].titledata.books[].uri

Sample response summary

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "name": "fantasy",
    "books": [
      {
        "id": "42844155",
        "title": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)",
        "author": "J.K. Rowling",
        "author_id": "1077326",
        "average_rating": 4.47,
        "ratings_count": 11710306,
        "publication_year": 1997,
        "shelved_count": 89892,
        "uri": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42844155-harry-potter-and-the-philosopher-s-stone"
      },
      {
        "id": "5907",
        "title": "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)",
        "author": "J.R.R. Tolkien",
        "author_id": "656983",
        "average_rating": 4.3,
        "ratings_count": 4585794,
        "publication_year": 1937,
        "shelved_count": 73195,
        "uri": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5907.The_Hobbit"
      }
    ]
  },
  "source_url": "https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/fantasy"
}

cURL example

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/goodreads/genre/<name>" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

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Try the Goodreads Genre Shelf API

Endpoint facts

Method: GET
API path: /goodreads/genre/{name}
Platform: Goodreads
Auth: apiKey
Credits: 2 credits/request
Required params: name

Prefilled cURL

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/goodreads/genre/<name>" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Request parameters visible to crawlers

Parameter	Type	Required	Prefilled value	Description
name (path)	string	Yes		Goodreads genre/shelf tag

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "name": "fantasy",
    "books": [
      {
        "id": "42844155",
        "title": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)",
        "author": "J.K. Rowling",
        "author_id": "1077326",
        "average_rating": 4.47,
        "ratings_count": 11710306,
        "publication_year": 1997,
        "shelved_count": 89892,
        "uri": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42844155-harry-potter-and-the-philosopher-s-stone"
      },
      {
        "id": "5907",
        "title": "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)",
        "author": "J.R.R. Tolkien",
        "author_id": "656983",
        "average_rating": 4.3,
        "ratings_count": 4585794,
        "publication_year": 1937,
        "shelved_count": 73195,
        "uri": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5907.The_Hobbit"
      }
    ]
  },
  "source_url": "https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/fantasy"
}

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GETapiKey2 credits/requestgoodreads.genreResponseDocGoodreads

GET /goodreads/genre/{name}

Get a Goodreads genre shelf

API key required. Paste a full key or rotate one from the API Keys page.

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API key

API key required for live requests. Your key is only used to send requests from this Playground.

not configured

Active Playground key: not configured

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Path parameters

name

requiredstring

Goodreads genre/shelf tag

Add an API key to send a live request.

If an active API key is configured, Copy cURL includes it. Share links never include API keys.

View docs

Sample responseGET

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{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "name": "fantasy",
    "books": [
      {
        "id": "42844155",
        "title": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)",
        "author": "J.K. Rowling",
        "author_id": "1077326",
        "average_rating": 4.47,
        "ratings_count": 11710306,
        "publication_year": 1997,
        "shelved_count": 89892,
        "uri": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42844155-harry-potter-and-the-philosopher-s-stone"
      },
      {
        "id": "5907",
        "title": "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)",
        "author": "J.R.R. Tolkien",
        "author_id": "656983",
        "average_rating": 4.3,
        "ratings_count": 4585794,
        "publication_year": 1937,
        "shelved_count": 73195,
        "uri": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5907.The_Hobbit"
      }
    ]
  },
  "source_url": "https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/fantasy"
}

Endpoint details

Method: GET
Path: /goodreads/genre/{name}
Authentication: apiKey
Credit cost: 2 credits/request
Platform: Goodreads
Parameters: 2 documented fields

Request parameters

name:pathx-api-key:header

Response schema fields

Sample response summary

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "name": "fantasy",
    "books": [
      {
        "id": "42844155",
        "title": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)",
        "author": "J.K. Rowling",
        "author_id": "1077326",
        "average_rating": 4.47,
        "ratings_count": 11710306,
        "publication_year": 1997,
        "shelved_count": 89892,
        "uri": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42844155-harry-potter-and-the-philosopher-s-stone"
      },
      {
        "id": "5907",
        "title": "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)",
        "author": "J.R.R. Tolkien",
        "author_id": "656983",
        "average_rating": 4.3,
        "ratings_count": 4585794,
        "publication_year": 1937,
        "shelved_count": 73195,
        "uri": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5907.The_Hobbit"
      }
    ]
  },
  "source_url": "https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/fantasy"
}

cURL example

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/goodreads/genre/<name>" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"