Search Audible audiobooks

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Search the Audible catalog by keyword, author, narrator or category, sorted by relevance, sales, date, rating, title or length.

GET/v1/audible/searchx-api-key

Headers

Get your API key

x-api-keystringrequiredheader

Your ScrapeAtlas customer key. Create one on /account/ and set SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY.

Query parameters

querystringquery

Search keywords, 1 to 200 characters.

min 1 chars · max 200 chars

Exampledune

authorstringquery

Author name to filter by, 1 to 200 characters.

min 1 chars · max 200 chars

narratorstringquery

Narrator name to filter by, 1 to 200 characters.

min 1 chars · max 200 chars

categoryIdstringquery

Category ID from Audible categories or a book's categories.

sortenumquery

relevance (default), bestsellers, newest, oldest, rating, title, longest or shortest.

one of: relevance, bestsellers, newest, oldest, rating, title, longest, shortest

marketplaceenumquery

Audible store: us (default), uk, ca, au, in, de, fr, it, es or jp. A URL sets the store from its domain.

one of: us, uk, ca, au, in, de, fr, it, es, jp

pagestringquery

Result page, 1 to 100; defaults to 1.

limitstringquery

Results per page, 1 to 50; default 20.

Example20

Response fields

requestIdstring

Request correlation UUID.

Retrieval attempt, source byte and timing measurements.

accounting.upstreamRequestsinteger

Upstream request attempts, including any retry.

≥ 0

accounting.responseBytesinteger

Source bytes read during this request.

≥ 0

accounting.durationMsnumber

Elapsed operation time in milliseconds.

≥ 0

successboolean

True when usable data is returned; inspect status and coverage.

statusenum

success or partial for usable data; failed or challenged for a failure.

one of: success, partial

sourceUrlstring

Public Audible page the data describes.

absolute HTTPS URL

fetchedAtstring

UTC retrieval timestamp.

Returned-page coverage and mapping warnings.

coverage.sourcestring

Audible's public catalog API.

coverage.completeboolean

Whether every supported field on this page was mapped without a reported omission.

coverage.warningsenum[]

Named warnings: invalid_item (a record without required fields was skipped), record_limit (a list was capped), total_unavailable (no result count) or author_name_match (titles by another author with the same name were removed).

marketplaceenum

Audible store: us (default), uk, ca, au, in, de, fr, it, es or jp. A URL sets the store from its domain.

one of: us, uk, ca, au, in, de, fr, it, es, jp

pageinteger

Result page, 1 to 100; defaults to 1.

≥ 1

limitinteger

Results per page, 1 to 50; default 20.

1 – 50

totalintegernullable

Total matches reported by Audible, or null.

≥ 0

hasMoreboolean

Whether a later page exists.

Matching titles in the requested order.

up to 50 items

results.asinstring

Always included.

results.titlestring

Always included.

min 1 chars

results.subtitlestringnullable

Always included.

results.urlstring

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

Always included.

up to 50 items

results.authors.asinstringnullable

Always included.

results.authors.namestring

Always included.

min 1 chars

Always included.

up to 50 items

results.narrators.asinstringnullable

Always included.

results.narrators.namestring

Always included.

min 1 chars

results.publisherstringnullable

Always included.

results.releaseDatestringnullable

Always included.

results.languagestringnullable

Always included.

results.runtimeMinutesnumbernullable

Always included.

results.formatTypestringnullable

Always included.

results.contentTypestringnullable

Always included.

results.contentDeliveryTypestringnullable

Always included.

results.isAdultbooleannullable

Always included.

results.summarystringnullable

Always included.

results.coverUrlstringnullable

Always included.

results.rating.reviewCountnumbernullable

Always included.

results.rating.overall.averagenumbernullable

Always included.

results.rating.overall.countnumbernullable

Always included.

results.rating.overall.fivenumbernullable

Always included.

results.rating.overall.fournumbernullable

Always included.

results.rating.overall.threenumbernullable

Always included.

results.rating.overall.twonumbernullable

Always included.

results.rating.overall.onenumbernullable

Always included.

results.rating.performance.averagenumbernullable

Always included.

results.rating.performance.countnumbernullable

Always included.

results.rating.performance.fivenumbernullable

Always included.

results.rating.performance.fournumbernullable

Always included.

results.rating.performance.threenumbernullable

Always included.

results.rating.performance.twonumbernullable

Always included.

results.rating.performance.onenumbernullable

Always included.

results.rating.story.averagenumbernullable

Always included.

results.rating.story.countnumbernullable

Always included.

results.rating.story.fivenumbernullable

Always included.

results.rating.story.fournumbernullable

Always included.

results.rating.story.threenumbernullable

Always included.

results.rating.story.twonumbernullable

Always included.

results.rating.story.onenumbernullable

Always included.

up to 20 items

results.series.asinstringnullable

Always included.

results.series.titlestring

Always included.

min 1 chars

results.series.sequencestringnullable

Always included.

results.series.urlstringnullable

Always included.

up to 20 items

results.categories.idstring

Always included.

min 1 chars

results.categories.namestring

Always included.

min 1 chars

Always included.

results.price.listPricenumbernullable

Always included.

results.price.lowestPricenumbernullable

Always included.

results.price.currencystringnullable

Always included.

results.price.creditPricenumbernullable

Always included.

HTTP 200 returns the success variant. Check status: partial means usable data with warnings, and failed or challenged requests carry a failure object described in Errors & responses.

Error codes

HTTP	failure.code	Meaning
200	`partial`	Usable data with named invalid-item, record-limit, total or author-name warnings.
400	`invalid_request`	Missing, duplicate, malformed, unsafe or unsupported parameters.
401	`unauthorized`	Missing or invalid worker API key.
404	`not_found`	The requested audiobook, author or category was not found in the selected store.
422	`unsupported_page`	The Audible response structure or identity could not be mapped.
502	`upstream_challenged`	Audible challenged retrieval.
502	`upstream_rate_limited`	Audible rate-limited retrieval.
502	`upstream_error`	Source retrieval did not complete.
502	`response_too_large`	Source bytes exceeded the request limit.
502	`unsafe_redirect`	Audible answered with a redirect, which is never followed.
502	`request_limit`	The upstream request budget was exhausted.
503	`busy`	Worker request or queue capacity was exceeded.
504	`timeout`	The operation deadline expired.

Code example

curl "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/audible/search?query=dune&limit=20" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/audible/search?query=dune&limit=20",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
  }
);

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data.status, data);

type Result = {
  status: "success" | "partial" | "failed" | "challenged";
  requestId: string;
  [field: string]: unknown;
};

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/audible/search?query=dune&limit=20",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": process.env.SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY!
    }
  }
);

const data = (await response.json()) as Result;
if (data.status === "failed" || data.status === "challenged") {
  throw new Error(`Audible request failed: ${data.requestId}`);
}
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/audible/search",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "query": "dune",
        "limit": "20"
    },
    timeout=60,
)
data = response.json()
print(data["status"], data)

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/audible/search?query=dune&limit=20", nil)
	req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	var data map[string]interface{}
	json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&data)
	fmt.Println(data["status"], data)
}

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        var client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
            .uri(URI.create("https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/audible/search?query=dune&limit=20"))
            .GET()
            .header("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
            .build();
        var response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }
}

Use your sa_live_… customer key at https://api.scrapeatlas.com.

Responses

Successful result. Synthetic example validated against the runtime contract.

{
  "success": true,
  "status": "success",
  "requestId": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000001",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.audible.com/search?keywords=voyage",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_api",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": []
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 1,
    "responseBytes": 14000,
    "durationMs": 420
  },
  "marketplace": "us",
  "page": 1,
  "limit": 20,
  "total": 2005,
  "hasMore": true,
  "results": [
    {
      "asin": "B0EXAMPLE1",
      "title": "The Example Voyage",
      "subtitle": "Book One of the Example Cycle",
      "url": "https://www.audible.com/pd/B0EXAMPLE1",
      "authors": [
        {
          "asin": "B0AUTHOR01",
          "name": "Example Author"
        }
      ],
      "narrators": [
        {
          "asin": null,
          "name": "Example Narrator"
        }
      ],
      "publisher": "Example Audio",
      "releaseDate": "2024-03-05",
      "language": "english",
      "runtimeMinutes": 742,
      "formatType": "unabridged",
      "contentType": "Product",
      "contentDeliveryType": "SinglePartBook",
      "isAdult": false,
      "summary": "A crew of explorers charts an unknown sea.",
      "coverUrl": "https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/example._SL500_.jpg",
      "rating": {
        "reviewCount": 310,
        "overall": {
          "average": 4.6,
          "count": 5200,
          "five": 3900,
          "four": 780,
          "three": 260,
          "two": 156,
          "one": 104
        },
        "performance": {
          "average": 4.7,
          "count": 4800,
          "five": 3600,
          "four": 720,
          "three": 240,
          "two": 144,
          "one": 96
        },
        "story": {
          "average": 4.5,
          "count": 4790,
          "five": 3592,
          "four": 718,
          "three": 239,
          "two": 143,
          "one": 98
        }
      },
      "series": [
        {
          "asin": "B0SERIES01",
          "title": "The Example Cycle",
          "sequence": "1",
          "url": "https://www.audible.com/pd/Example-Cycle/B0SERIES01"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        [
          {
            "id": "18580606011",
            "name": "Science Fiction & Fantasy"
          },
          {
            "id": "18580607011",
            "name": "Fantasy"
          }
        ]
      ],
      "price": {
        "listPrice": 24.99,
        "lowestPrice": 24.99,
        "currency": "USD",
        "creditPrice": 1
      }
    }
  ]
}

Missing, duplicate, malformed, unsafe or unsupported parameters.

{
  "requestId": "9d2f1c0a-6b1e-4c7d-9a8e-2f3b4c5d6e7f",
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 0,
    "responseBytes": 0,
    "durationMs": 0
  },
  "success": false,
  "status": "failed",
  "failure": {
    "code": "invalid_request",
    "message": "Invalid request: missing, duplicate, unsupported or malformed parameters."
  }
}