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📚 ViaLibri Scraper

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-05

Collect rare and second-hand book listings from ViaLibri, the world's largest aggregator of antiquarian and used books from 190+ dealers worldwide. Download full book catalogs with price, dealer details, and condition information without any coding. Perfect for book dealers monitoring competitive inventory, collectors tracking availability across dealers, or researchers analyzing rare book market trends.

The ViaLibri Scraper collects rare book listings from the world's largest dealer network, up to 1,000,000 books per run, with complete price, dealer, and publication data.

✨ What Does It Do

• 🖼️ Book Images - Download cover artwork and publication visuals for product displays and cataloging
• 📝 Title & Author - Extract complete publication metadata including title, author, and description for inventory management
• 📅 Publication Year - Filter and organize books by release date to identify specific editions and historical value
• 💰 Price Data - Capture price from multiple aggregators and international dealers in original currencies
• 👤 Dealer Information - Collect dealer names, locations, and IDs to compare inventory across 190+ sources
• 🔗 Direct Links - Get links to dealer catalogs and source listings for quick reference
• 📊 Listing Type - Identify new, used, and rare condition categories to segment your inventory

🔧 Input

• Max Items - Set how many book listings to collect. Free users get up to 100 per run, paid plans support up to 1,000,000
• Publication Year - Filter results to a single year between 1455 through 2024 to find books from a specific era
• Year From - Start year for range searches, pair with Year To to search multiple years at once
• Year To - End year for range searches, pair with Year From for inclusive date filtering
• Proxy Configuration - Enable residential proxies for stable access to large datasets

Example input:

{
"maxItems":1000,
"yearFrom":1800,
"yearTo":1850,
"proxyConfiguration":{
"useApifyProxy":true,
"apifyProxyGroups":["RESIDENTIAL"]
}
}

📊 Output

Each book listing includes up to 15 data fields. Download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

💎 Why Choose the ViaLibri Scraper?

📋 How to Use

No technical skills required. Follow these simple steps:

1. Sign Up: Create a free account with $5 credit
2. Find the Tool: Search for "ViaLibri Scraper" in the Apify Store and configure your input
3. Run It: Click "Start" and watch your results appear

That's it. No coding, no setup, no complicated configuration. Now you can export your data in CSV, Excel, or JSON format.

🎯 Business Use Cases

• 📊 Book Dealers - Monitor competitor inventory across major dealers to adjust price and identify gaps in your own catalog
• 🔬 Rare Book Researchers - Collect comprehensive historical publication data from 1455 to 2024 to analyze market trends and availability patterns
• 💼 Acquisition Managers - Source rare editions across multiple dealers simultaneously and compare prices before placing bulk orders

✨ Why choose this Actor

📊 Production-grade structured data without the engineering overhead of building and maintaining your own scraper.

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Pick this Actor when you want broad coverage, server-side filtering, and no pipeline maintenance.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the ViaLibri Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Configure the input fields in the form (or paste a JSON), then set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

💼 Business use cases

🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🔌 Integrate with any app

ViaLibri Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe results into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes. Push fresh data into your product backend, or alert your team in Slack.

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🚀 Ready to Start?

Create a free account with $5 credit and collect your first 100 results for free. No coding, no setup.

🆘 Need Help?

• Check the FAQ section above for common questions
• Visit the Apify support page for documentation and tutorials
• Contact us to request a new scraper, propose a custom project, or report an issue at Tally contact form

⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by ViaLibri or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

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