Goodreads API?
New to the tool, very cool. When I dropped the link I wanted to scrape inside Actor it came out perfect. I'd like to build this into an automation though via Zapier. Ideally, I submit a google form with the link to the goodreads URL i want to scrape, zapier will do a webhook and pull the info, and then add it where I need it to go. I was using a tool for amazon with a format like this and wondering if there is a similar way to do it for this tool? https://api.scraperapi.com/?api_key={{api-key}}&url={{URL}}
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Someone will reply to you shortly. In the meantime, this might help:
Hi @Jennifer Grayeb From your description I assume you are using epctex/goodreads-scraper
There is a stand-by feature that some of the Actors support and that does exactly what you mentioned. Unfortunately it seems, that the
Goodreads Scraper does not support it.
You may still start the Run via webhook (HTTP request), but it would need to be Post HTTP Request with a body containing the Actor's Input (the url that you want to scrape would not be part of the url, but included in the Request body).
I am currently not sure if Zapier can do this.
Read more at https://apify.com/epctex/goodreads-scraper/api (Run Actor synchronously and get dataset items).Apify
Goodreads Scraper 📚 · Apify
Scrape goodreads.com for data on millions of books. Crawl book descriptions, images, ISBN, author, title, buy links, number of reviews, language, and more.
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Goodreads Scraper 📚 API · Apify
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