How to Scrape Google Play Books Results

The Google Play Store is an essential application for Android ecosystems. Besides mobile apps and games, the Google Play store allows you to purchase digital entertainment, ebooks, audiobooks, etc.

Google Play Books Results is a valuable resource for market research. You can scrape book titles, authors, genres, and pricing. You can build content aggregation, competitor research, price analysis or SEO optimization.

Furthermore, with extensive Google Play Books results, you can build book recommendation systems, conduct academic research, monitor copyright compliance, and more!

Scraping Google Play Books Results is pretty simple with SerpApi. We already offer the Google Play Books APIs with rich data results. Let's see how it works.

Setting up a SerpApi account

SerpApi offers a free plan for newly created accounts. Head to the sign-up page to register an account and complete your first search with our interactive playground. When you want to do more searches with us, please visit the pricing page.

Once you are familiar with all results, you can utilize SERP APIs using your API Key.

Scrape your first Google Play Books results with SerpApi

Head to the Google Play Books Results from the documentation on SerpApi for details.

In this tutorial, we will scrape the top chart of free books. The data contains: "title", "author", "link", "description", "rating", "category", "thumbnail" and more. You can also scrape more information with SerpApi.

First, you need to install the SerpApi client library.

pip install google-search-results

Set up the SerpApi credentials and search.

import serpapi
import os, json, csv

params = {
    'api_key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',         # your serpapi api
    'engine': 'google_play_books',     # SerpApi search engine	
    'chart': 'topselling_free'
}

To retrieve Google Play Books Results for a given search query, you can use the following code:

client = serpapi.Client()
results = client.search(params)['top_charts']

You can store Google Play Books Results JSON data in databases or export them to a CSV file.

import csv

header = ['title', 'author', 'link', 'description', 'rating', 'category', 'thumbnail']

with open('google_play_books.csv', 'w', encoding='UTF8', newline='') as f:
    writer = csv.writer(f)

    writer.writerow(header)

    for item in results:
        print(item)
        writer.writerow([item.get('title'), item.get('author'), item.get('link'), item.get('description'), item.get('rating'), item.get('category'), item.get('thumbnail')])

This example is using Python, but you can also use your all your favorite programming languages like Ruby, NodeJS, Java, PHP, and more.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.