Book rating and review collection
Use Goodreads endpoints to turn book rating and review collection into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Collect Goodreads book detail with average rating and ratings count, book reviews, author profiles and their books, and Listopia list rankings as normalized JSON for book catalogs, ratings research, and enrichment. Credential-free.
Extract Goodreads book detail, ratings, reviews, author profiles, author books, and list rankings as structured JSON from public Goodreads pages.
Endpoint families
6
Documented params
25
Examples
10
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
10
Methods
GET
Required params
19
Schema refs
10
{
"platform": "Goodreads",
"endpoint": "goodreads-search",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/goodreads/search",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Extract Goodreads book detail, ratings, reviews, author profiles, author books, and list rankings as structured JSON from public Goodreads pages.
Use Goodreads endpoints to turn book rating and review collection into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Goodreads endpoints to turn author and bibliography enrichment into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Goodreads endpoints to turn list and ranking monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live Goodreads endpoint catalog — 10 endpoints, 25 documented request parameters, and 10 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
10 documented Goodreads endpoints, grouped into 6 request families — Author, Book and Genre, plus 3 more.
25 request parameters are documented across those Goodreads endpoints, 19 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
10 of the 10 Goodreads endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 10 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
Goodreads endpoints document their error responses (400, 404, 429, 500 and 503) alongside the success schema, so a block, a rate limit, or a missing record comes back as a typed error rather than silently empty data.
10 hosted MCP tools back the Goodreads endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
These cards are generated from the active endpoint catalog, so the landing page reflects the same API surface used by Docs and Playground.
/goodreads/author/{id}
/goodreads/book/{id}
/goodreads/genre/{name}
/goodreads/list/{id}
/goodreads/lists
/goodreads/search
Endpoint catalog
/goodreads/searchSearches Goodreads books by title/author. Credential-free public Goodreads data via the autocomplete endpoint (book results only).
MCP tool goodreads_search
/goodreads/book/{id}Returns a normalized Goodreads book: description, authors, series, genres, format, pages, publisher, publication date, ISBNs, and aggregate rating with the full 1-5 star distribution. Credential-free public Goodreads data (goodreads.com), parsed from the book page's embedded GraphQL cache.
MCP tool goodreads_book
/goodreads/book/{id}/reviewsReturns a book's featured reviews (reviewer, rating, text, date, like/comment counts, spoiler flag), sorted by like count. Credential-free public Goodreads data.
MCP tool goodreads_book_reviews
/goodreads/author/{id}Returns a normalized Goodreads author profile: bio, birth/death dates, website, genres, photo, and aggregate rating stats. Credential-free public Goodreads data.
MCP tool goodreads_author
/goodreads/author/{id}/booksReturns an author's paginated works list (title, author, average rating, ratings count). Credential-free public Goodreads data.
MCP tool goodreads_author_books
/goodreads/list/{id}Returns a Goodreads Listopia list (ranked book list) by id, paginated. Credential-free public Goodreads data; page 1 of well-known lists may be served from a faster live source, with the public list page itself as fallback for every other case.
MCP tool goodreads_list
/goodreads/author/{id}/quotesReturns an author's paginated attributed-quotes list (quote text, tags, like count, and — when the quote is credited to a specific book — that book's title, id, and work id). Credential-free public Goodreads data.
MCP tool goodreads_author_quotes
/goodreads/book/{id}/editionsReturns a work's paginated edition list (per-edition book id, format, page count, publication date, publisher, ISBN/ISBN13/ASIN, language, and rating) — every other translation, printing, and format of the requested book id. Goodreads keys editions by a separate "work id", not the book id in the path, so this makes one extra internal request to resolve it; requests against a book with no editions data return an upstream error.
MCP tool goodreads_book_editions
/goodreads/genre/{name}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.
MCP tool goodreads_genre
/goodreads/listsReturns a catalog of well-known Goodreads Listopia lists (id, name, category). Goodreads has no directory or search endpoint for the tens of thousands of user-created lists, so this is served from a live popular-lists source when available, falling back to a curated, hand-picked catalog otherwise. Pass a returned id to GET /goodreads/list/{id} for that list's ranked book contents. Category enum: `general`, `genre`, `era`, `young_adult`, `children`, `holiday`.
MCP tool goodreads_lists
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How to scrape Goodreads
Goodreads' book ratings, reviews, and author data power book research and recommendation. Crawlora's Goodreads endpoints return search, book detail, reviews, author profiles, and list rankings as normalized JSON — no login, rate-limit juggling, or proxy setup.
A book search, a book by id (with reviews), an author with their books, or a Listopia list.
Pass a query or a Goodreads id to Crawlora's Goodreads endpoint (e.g. /goodreads/search, /goodreads/book, /goodreads/author/{id}/books).
Receive title, author, average rating, ratings count, page count, and description as clean JSON.
Batch across search results and author bibliographies to build catalogs for recommendation, research, or enrichment.
FAQ
Send a search query or a Goodreads id to Crawlora's Goodreads endpoints and get book detail, average ratings, reviews, author profiles, and list rankings as structured JSON — no login. Collect public data and respect Goodreads' terms.
Yes — /goodreads/book returns the average rating and ratings count, and /goodreads/book/{id}/reviews returns publicly visible reviews for a book. It collects only public data, not private shelves or account information.
Collecting publicly accessible book, rating, and review data is generally permissible if you respect Goodreads' terms of use, robots directives, rate limits, and applicable law. This is for public data you are authorized to collect.
No. Amazon-owned Goodreads shut down public developer API access in December 2020 and has not shipped an official replacement — existing API keys stopped working and no new keys are issued. Crawlora's Goodreads endpoints return book detail, ratings, reviews, author profiles, and list rankings as structured JSON with a single API key, no waitlist or grandfathered access required.