List Goodreads book reviews

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List community reviews of a Goodreads book, 30 per page: star rating, review text, spoiler flag, dates, likes, comments, shelf, tags and the reviewer's public profile. Continue with the returned nextCursor.

GET/v1/goodreads/book-reviewsx-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

urlstringquery

Goodreads book URL such as https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123456-example-book. Provide exactly one of url or id.

max 1024 chars

idstringquery

Numeric Goodreads book ID such as 123456. Provide exactly one of url or id.

max 12 chars

Example123456

cursorstringquery

Optional nextCursor from the previous page of the same book.

max 1024 chars

Response fields

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

requestIdstring

Request correlation UUID.

sourceUrlstring

Public goodreads.com page the data describes.

absolute HTTPS URL

fetchedAtstring

UTC retrieval timestamp.

Returned-page coverage and mapping warnings.

coverage.sourcestring

Goodreads' public web pages and web API.

coverage.completeboolean

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

coverage.warningsenum[]

Named warnings: invalid_item (a record could not be mapped and was skipped), record_limit, total_unavailable (no result count), stats_unavailable (no rating statistics) or pagination_unavailable (no next-page signal).

Retrieval attempt, source byte and timing measurements.

accounting.upstreamRequestsinteger

Upstream request attempts, including redirects and any retry.

≥ 0

accounting.responseBytesinteger

Decoded source bytes read during this request.

≥ 0

accounting.durationMsnumber

Elapsed operation time in milliseconds.

≥ 0

bookIdinteger

Numeric Goodreads book ID the reviews belong to.

≥ 0

Community reviews in Goodreads' default order (up to 30 per page).

up to 30 items

reviews.idstring

Always included.

reviews.urlstringnullable

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

reviews.ratingintegernullable

Always included.

0 – 5

reviews.textstringnullable

Always included.

reviews.textHtmlstringnullable

Always included.

reviews.spoilerboolean

Always included.

reviews.createdAtstringnullable

Always included.

reviews.updatedAtstringnullable

Always included.

reviews.likeCountintegernullable

Always included.

≥ 0

reviews.commentCountintegernullable

Always included.

≥ 0

reviews.shelfstringnullable

Always included.

reviews.tagsstring[]

Always included.

up to 50 items

Always included.

reviews.reviewer.idintegernullable

Always included.

≥ 0

reviews.reviewer.namestringnullable

Always included.

reviews.reviewer.urlstringnullable

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

reviews.reviewer.imageUrlstringnullable

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

reviews.reviewer.isAuthorbooleannullable

Always included.

reviews.reviewer.followersCountintegernullable

Always included.

≥ 0

reviews.reviewer.reviewsCountintegernullable

Always included.

≥ 0

totalCountintegernullable

Total text reviews Goodreads reports for the work, or null.

≥ 0

nextCursorstringnullable

Pass as cursor with the same book to read the next page, or null on the last page.

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, stats or pagination warnings.
400	`invalid_request`	Missing, duplicate, malformed, unsafe or unsupported parameters.
401	`unauthorized`	Missing or invalid worker API key.
404	`not_found`	The requested Goodreads book or author was not found.
422	`restricted_page`	Goodreads requires sign-in for the requested page.
422	`unsupported_page`	The Goodreads page structure or identity could not be mapped.
502	`upstream_challenged`	Goodreads challenged retrieval.
502	`upstream_rate_limited`	Goodreads rate-limited retrieval.
502	`upstream_error`	Source retrieval did not complete.
502	`response_too_large`	Decoded source bytes exceeded the request limit.
502	`unsafe_redirect`	Goodreads redirected outside the requested book or author.
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/goodreads/book-reviews?id=123456" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/goodreads/book-reviews?id=123456",
  {
    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/goodreads/book-reviews?id=123456",
  {
    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(`Goodreads request failed: ${data.requestId}`);
}
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/goodreads/book-reviews",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "id": "123456"
    },
    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/goodreads/book-reviews?id=123456", 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/goodreads/book-reviews?id=123456"))
            .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.goodreads.com/book/show/123456",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_web",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": []
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 1,
    "responseBytes": 980000,
    "durationMs": 640
  },
  "bookId": 123456,
  "reviews": [
    {
      "id": "kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.exampleReview01",
      "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1000001",
      "rating": 5,
      "text": "A synthetic review.\nSecond paragraph.",
      "textHtml": "A synthetic review.<br /><br />Second paragraph.",
      "spoiler": false,
      "createdAt": "2024-02-01T10:00:00.000Z",
      "updatedAt": "2024-02-02T10:00:00.000Z",
      "likeCount": 42,
      "commentCount": 3,
      "shelf": "read",
      "tags": [
        "favorites"
      ],
      "reviewer": {
        "id": 555001,
        "name": "Example Reader",
        "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/555001-example-reader",
        "imageUrl": "https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1600000000p2/555001.jpg",
        "isAuthor": false,
        "followersCount": 80,
        "reviewsCount": 120
      }
    }
  ],
  "totalCount": 310,
  "nextCursor": "eyJ3Ijoia2NhOi8vd29yay9hbXpuMS5nci53b3JrLnYxLmV4YW1wbGUiLCJ0IjoiTWpBc01UWXdNREF3TURBd01EQXdNQSJ9"
}

Missing, duplicate, malformed, unsafe or unsupported parameters.

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