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AbeBooks Scraper for Book Listings, Prices and Sellers
One ISBN on AbeBooks can bring dozens of copies from different booksellers, each graded and priced on its own. Our AbeBooks scraper keeps every copy as a separate row.
Plans from €169 a month · Free project assessment · Reply within 1 business day
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abebooks.comwhat you get
Typical fields for online stores
titlepricecurrencyin_stockskuratingreviews
Delivery
API, JSON feed or CSV, XLSX and JSON files
ScheduleOne-time, monthly, weekly, daily or 3 times a day
AbeBooks Data Scraper: How the Service Runs
- You send
AbeBooks pages, filters, fields and a schedule
- We run the scrapers
Built, monitored and repaired by our team
- You receive the data
API, JSON feed or CSV, XLSX and JSON files
Scope on AbeBooks is usually set by books rather than categories: a list of ISBNs, authors or titles, a slice of the rare-book market such as signed first editions, or the stock of particular booksellers. You give us the list and the cadence; we set up the crawler, operate it and keep it working when AbeBooks changes its result or listing pages. Rendering, request pacing, rotating proxies and CAPTCHA handling are part of the job.
Shipping costs on AbeBooks depend on the destination and the currency the visitor picks, so we fix both per project and record them on every row. Files arrive as CSV, XLSX, JSON or JSONLines, by e-mail, FTP, Google Drive or Dropbox, or through our API. The project assessment is free and a sample comes first.
AbeBooks Listings: Fields for Every Copy
An AbeBooks listing is one copy offered by one bookseller. The bookseller's own Seller Inventory # identifies the copy, and the ISBN identifies the edition. Fields we collect per copy:
- Booktitle, author, publisher, place and year of publication, language, series, and the ISBN 10 and ISBN 13 pair where the book has one; older books without an ISBN are matched on author, title, publisher and year.
- Format and editionbinding as the seller writes it (hardcover, softcover, paperback), and the collectible attributes AbeBooks flags: First Edition, Signed, Dust Jacket, Seller-Supplied Images and Not Print on Demand.
- ConditionNew or Used with the grade (As New, Fine, Near Fine, Very Good, Good, Fair, Poor), dust jacket condition where the seller states it, and the full description with printing points, bookplates, library markings, foxing and inscriptions.
- Price and shippingprice in the chosen currency, shipping cost to the chosen destination, the "Ships from ... to ..." line, and the quantity available.
- Booksellershop name, city and country, the star label (5-star seller, 4-star seller and so on), and association memberships printed on the listing, such as ABAA, ILAB, IOBA or PBFA.
- Imageswhether the picture is a Stock Image or a Seller Image, and the image URLs.
Search result pages carry most of these fields as well, so a run can start from an author, a keyword or an ISBN list and still return complete rows. Where a sort by Most recently listed is useful, new copies can be picked up on the day they appear.
AbeBooks Price Tracker: Editions, Rare Copies and Search
Above the copies sits the ISBN page, at an address built from the ISBN 13, a title slug and the ISBN 10. It summarises the edition: how many used and how many new copies are for sale and the lowest price of each, the edition details (publisher, publication date, language, binding, number of pages), the Goodreads rating with its count, a synopsis, and other popular editions of the same title. That page is the natural unit for an AbeBooks price tracker - lowest used price, lowest new price and copy counts per ISBN, re-read on a schedule.
The search side adds coverage by attribute. AbeBooks filters by product type, condition, binding, collectible attributes, published year, language, price, free shipping, seller region and country, and seller rating, and it sorts by lowest price, highest price, lowest total price with shipping or most recently listed. A run can therefore cover every signed first edition of an author, or every copy above a price threshold.
Repeated runs keyed on the Seller Inventory # show which copies are new, which were repriced and which have gone. Beyond books, the same structure covers magazines and periodicals, comics, maps, photographs, sheet music, art, prints and posters, and manuscripts and paper collectibles.
About AbeBooks and Its Booksellers
- Source
- abebooks.com
- Category
- online stores
- Delivery
- API, JSON feed, CSV, XLSX
- Plans
- From €169 a month
AbeBooks is an online marketplace where independent booksellers in more than 50 countries list new, used, rare and out-of-print books, alongside art and collectibles. The company was founded in 1995 and launched AbeBooks.com a year later; it is headquartered in Victoria, British Columbia, and has been a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. since December 2008. It sells nothing itself: every order ships directly from the bookseller, and AbeBooks guarantees that the book matches its description.
The catalogue holds one listing per physical copy, not one product per title. A common paperback can have well over a hundred copies at once, from large used-book warehouses with stock photos to single shops writing their own descriptions, and a first edition of the same novel sits a few rows away from a modern reprint, told apart by publisher, year and collectible flags. The Rare Books section, catalogs curated by antiquarian dealers and the quarterly lists of the most expensive sales show where the top of the market is.
The marketplace runs on several sites - AbeBooks.com, AbeBooks.co.uk, AbeBooks.de, AbeBooks.fr, AbeBooks.it, AbeBooks.ca, AbeBooks Aus/NZ, IberLibro.com and ZVAB.com - and every visitor picks a shipping destination and a currency, which set the prices and shipping costs shown.
25Developers
500+Customers
1.5BPages extracted
15,000+Hours saved for our clients
AbeBooks scraping plans and pricing
Delivery: CSV, JSON or XLSX files, our API or a JSON feed. MCP server on request.
Full plan detailsWhy Scrape AbeBooks Prices and Listings
Once a book goes out of print it has no list price, and the asking prices of booksellers become the market. AbeBooks data answers the questions that follow.
- Buying and pricing for booksellersLowest and median prices per ISBN and condition tell a dealer what a copy is worth before buying it in, and where their own listing sits among the others.
- Rare book valuationFirst Edition, Signed and Dust Jacket flags, together with printing points in the description, separate a collectible copy from a reprint - the split auction houses, insurers and estate valuers work with.
- Out-of-print demand for publishersTitles with few copies and rising prices are reprint candidates, and copy counts per ISBN over time show where supply is drying up.
- Library and academic sourcingTextbooks and scholarly titles can be priced across sellers and countries, with shipping to the buyer's destination included.
- Trade researchSeller location, rating and association membership map the antiquarian trade by country and specialism.
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About ScrapeIt
We are a managed scraping service: ScrapeIt builds the crawlers, runs them on your schedule and delivers documented datasets, so collection never turns into an in-house project. Book marketplaces suit the way we work - long lists of identifiers, copies that come and go, descriptions that need parsing into fields. AbeBooks booksellers are businesses, so their shop names, locations and ratings belong in the data, and a free assessment tells you which fields a given list of titles will yield.
FAQ
Still unsure? Write to info@scrapeit.io
Do you offer an AbeBooks API for book listings?
Yes. The ScrapeIt AbeBooks API returns ISBN, title, edition flags, condition, price, shipping and bookseller for each copy as JSON from an endpoint we host, updated as often as your schedule says. Files in CSV, XLSX or JSONLines and a direct load into your database are the alternatives. An MCP server is available on request.
Is it legal to scrape AbeBooks?
Yes. Listings, ISBN pages, bookseller names and ratings are shown to every visitor of AbeBooks without signing in. We collect only publicly available data - everything a visitor can see on AbeBooks - and we collect it legally. Booksellers are businesses; any personal details that turn up in descriptions are handled under GDPR.
Can you track AbeBooks price history for an ISBN?
Yes. Scheduled runs re-read the ISBN pages and copies you choose and store, per run, the lowest used and new prices, the number of copies and each copy's price by Seller Inventory #. Over a few weeks that becomes a price history per edition and condition, including the moment the cheap copies run out.
Does AbeBooks show sold prices?
Not on its listings. A copy that is bought simply leaves the results, so our repeated runs record its last asking price and the date it disappeared - a strong sign of a sale, though not a confirmed one. AbeBooks does publish editorial lists of its most expensive sales each quarter, and those can be collected too.
Do you cover AbeBooks.co.uk, ZVAB and the other AbeBooks sites?
Yes. AbeBooks.co.uk, AbeBooks.de, AbeBooks.fr, AbeBooks.it, AbeBooks.ca, IberLibro.com and ZVAB.com present booksellers' copies in their own language and currency, and we read whichever sites the project needs. Each row keeps its site, currency and shipping destination, so prices from different sites are never mixed.
How it works
- 1
Make a request
You share your needs, expectations, and desired timeframe. We'll suggest the best solution based on your request and budget.
- 2
We configure the crawlers
Our specialists configure the crawlers and extract a sample dataset for your review before proceeding with the full-scale extraction.
- 3
Collect and deliver
Once you approve the sample, we launch the project and start full data collection. We gather, filter, and structure the data for easy use, delivering it on time in your preferred format.
- 4
Maintain and support
Our team manages ongoing processes, monitors website changes, and supports all data extraction cycles. We can also help integrate data into your systems or create dashboards to simplify analysis.
Request a quote
Tell us which sites, which fields and how often. A couple of lines is enough to start.
- We reply within 1 business day
- A sample dataset before the full run
- We sign an NDA on request
- Delivery by API, JSON feed or files