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Search Books via OpenWeb Ninja
Search Books via OpenWeb Ninja is a paid API for AI agents from agents.openwebninja.com, paid per call via MPP, price unknown, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-14).
Search for books in real-time across Google Books with filtering by type, view availability, publication year, language, and country.
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How this service works
Get real-time book search results from across the web with pagination and filtering support.
Output
Returns an array of book records, each including a Google Books volume ID, title, subtitle (often showing authors and year), rank and position, publication year, cover image URL, Google Books page URL, view label (Preview/Full view), author names with links, and a link to other editions. Also returns the echoed request parameters and status.
Example use cases
Research books on a niche topic
“Find me books about machine learning published after 2018 — only ones with a full view available so I can read them online. Show results in English for the US.”
Discover classic literature for a reading list
“Search for Charles Dickens novels on Google Books, filter to books only (not magazines or newspapers), published before 1900, and give me the first page of results.”
Multilingual book discovery
“I'm looking for Spanish-language mystery books published between 2000 and 2015 — search Google Books with country set to Spain (es) and language set to Spanish (es), any view type is fine.”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://agents.openwebninja.com/realtime-books-data/search?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when you need real-time book search results from Google Books with rich filtering options (document type, view type, publication year, language, country). Prefer this over static book databases when you need current availability of previews or full-view books, or when localizing results by country and language is important.
Side effects
- Missing required 'query' parameter returns a validation error
- Invalid country or language code may return no results or default behavior
- Requesting a page beyond available results returns an empty data array
- Rate limiting or quota exhaustion returns a 402 or 429 error
- Very broad queries may return irrelevant results due to Google Books index coverage
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| page | number | Results page to return (pagination / scrolling). |
| queryrequired | string | Search query / keyword |
| country | string | The country for which to get trends, specified as a 2-letter country code - see ISO 3166. |
| language | string | The language to use for the results, specified as a 2-letter language code (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes). |
| view_type | string | Find books with a specific view type (preview / full). |
| document_type | string | Find books of a specific type. |
| publication_year_to | number | Find books published before a specific year (e.g. 2013). |
| publication_year_from | number | Find books published after a specific year (e.g. 1980). |
Output
Schema · Response
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| data | array | Array of book search results returned by the API. |
| status | string | The status of the API response |
| parameters | object | |
| request_id | string | Unique identifier for the API request |
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