A simple and efficient CLI tool to extract book data from Open Library.

📚 Book Scraper CLI

A Python-based command-line tool to scrape book data from Open Library and export it into a CSV file.

🚀 Features

• 🔍 Search books using any keyword

• 📄 Pagination support (scrape multiple pages)

• 📊 Extracts:

  • Title
  • Author
  • Published Year
  • Book Link

• 💾 Saves results to CSV

• ⚠️ Handles missing data and errors gracefully

🛠️ Tech Stack

• Python
• requests
• BeautifulSoup

⚙️ Installation

git clone https://github.com/aditi-1731/book-scraper-cli.git
cd book-scraper-cli
pip install -r requirements.txt

▶️ Usage

python scraper.py <query> <pages>

Example

python scraper.py python 3

📁 Output

A CSV file will be generated in the format:

<query>_books.csv

💡 Sample Output

Learning Python — Mark Lutz  
Automate the Boring Stuff — Al Sweigart  
Python Crash Course — Eric Matthes
Total books found:10

📌 Notes

• Uses Open Library search pages
• Includes delay between requests to avoid overloading the server
• Designed as a CLI tool for quick data extraction

🔮 Future Improvements

• Add filters (year, author)
• Export to Excel format
• Convert into GUI application
• Use API-based approach for faster performance

👩‍💻 Author

Aditi Tripathi