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Search Adlibris's Nordic book catalog, fetch product details, customer reviews, and browse category pages via a simple REST API with 4 endpoints.
curl -X GET 'https://api.parse.bot/scraper/e04eb89b-4f1f-482a-bf3d-fe74dc14075a/search_products?page=1&query=Harry+Potter&page_size=3' \ -H 'X-API-Key: $PARSE_API_KEY'
Search for products by keyword with optional filters and pagination. Returns product listings from the Adlibris catalog including pricing, ratings, and format information.
| Param | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| page | integer | Page number for pagination. |
| queryrequired | string | Search keyword (e.g. 'Harry Potter', 'Dan Brown'). |
| filters | string | Comma-separated filter values (e.g. 'author:Dan Brown,format_sv:inbunden'). |
| page_size | integer | Number of results per page. |
{
"type": "object",
"fields": {
"page": "integer, current page number",
"query": "string, the search query used",
"products": "array of product objects with title, author, price, isbn, format, publication_year, image_url, url, variants, average_rating, total_rating_count, total_review_count"
},
"sample": {
"data": {
"page": 1,
"query": "Harry Potter",
"products": [
{
"url": "https://www.adlibris.com/se/bok/harry-potter-och-de-vises-sten-9789129723946",
"isbn": "9789129723946",
"price": "219kr",
"title": "Harry Potter och De vises sten",
"author": "J. K. Rowling",
"format": "9-12 år inbunden",
"variants": [
{
"url": "https://www.adlibris.com/se/bok/harry-potter-och-de-vises-sten-9789129723946",
"price": "219kr",
"format": "inbunden"
}
],
"image_url": "https://s2.adlibris.com/images/54131168/harry-potter-och-de-vises-sten.jpg",
"product_key": "94f2b4ea-6666-4b47-9623-8f325dfea16e",
"average_rating": 4,
"publication_year": "2019",
"total_rating_count": 5589,
"total_review_count": 115
}
]
},
"status": "success"
}
}About the adlibris.com API
The Adlibris API gives developers structured access to the Nordic region's largest bookstore catalog through 4 endpoints. Use search_products to query the full catalog by keyword and filter by author or format, get_product_detail to retrieve metadata including ISBN, publisher, page count, and description, and get_product_reviews to pull customer review scores and text by ISBN. A fourth endpoint, browse_category, returns product listings from category and top-list pages.
Search and Filter the Catalog
The search_products endpoint accepts a required query string and optional filters parameter using comma-separated key-value pairs such as author:Dan Brown or format_sv:inbunden. Results are paginated via page and page_size parameters. Each product object in the products array includes title, author, price, isbn, format, publication_year, image_url, url, variants, average_rating, and total_rating_count.
Product Detail and Metadata
get_product_detail takes a full Adlibris product URL and returns a richer data set than search results: a details object containing publisher (förlag), page count (sidor), language (språk), and publication date (utgivningsdatum), plus a description string and a product_key. This endpoint is the right choice when you need bibliographic depth beyond what search surfaces.
Customer Reviews
get_product_reviews accepts an isbn and returns an array of review objects, each with author, score, score_max, date, extract, lang, and a verified_buyer boolean. A next_page_url field is included when additional pages of reviews exist, allowing straightforward cursor-based pagination through a product's full review set.
Category and Top-List Browsing
browse_category accepts any supported Adlibris category or top-list URL — both /sv/topplistor and /se/avdelning/ paths are supported — and returns a products array in the same shape as search results. This makes it straightforward to monitor bestseller lists or extract inventory from a specific genre section.
- Build a Nordic book price tracker using
search_productswith format and author filters - Aggregate bibliographic metadata (publisher, page count, language) from
get_product_detailfor a library catalog tool - Collect verified customer review scores via
get_product_reviewsto feed a sentiment analysis pipeline - Monitor Adlibris bestseller and top-list rankings with
browse_categoryon topplistor URLs - Compare edition formats and variants for the same ISBN across product listings
- Extract genre-level inventory by crawling
/se/avdelning/category pages withbrowse_category - Enrich an e-commerce product database with Swedish-language descriptions and ISBNs from Adlibris
| Tier | Price | Credits/month | Rate limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 100 | 5 req/min |
| Hobby | $30/mo | 1,000 | 20 req/min |
| Developer | $100/mo | 5,000 | 250 req/min |
One credit = one API call regardless of which marketplace API you call. Exceeding the rate limit returns a 429 response. Authenticate with the X-API-Key header.
Does Adlibris have an official public developer API?+
What does `get_product_reviews` return beyond the review text?+
author, score, score_max, date, extract, lang, and a verified_buyer boolean indicating whether the reviewer purchased the product on Adlibris. When more reviews exist beyond the first page, next_page_url is populated so you can fetch subsequent pages.What filters does `search_products` support?+
filters parameter accepts comma-separated key-value pairs. Documented examples include author:Dan Brown to narrow by author and format_sv:inbunden to filter by Swedish-language format labels like hardcover. Other filterable dimensions may be available depending on the catalog section.Does the API cover Adlibris markets outside Sweden, such as Finland or Norway?+
/se/). Finnish or Norwegian locale pages are not currently covered. The API covers Swedish product listings, pricing, reviews, and category pages. You can fork it on Parse and revise to add endpoints targeting other Adlibris regional storefronts.Is seller inventory or stock availability returned for products?+
get_product_detail to add stock or availability fields if that data is present on the product page.