Books to Scrape
Book listings, book prices and stock status
Demo book catalog with synthetic prices.
Your information
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Example results
- Products
Products Name Product URL Availability Published Price A Light in the AtticIn stock£51.77Tipping the VelvetIn stock£53.74SoumissionIn stock£50.10Sharp ObjectsIn stock£47.82Sapiens: A Brief History of HumankindIn stock£54.23The Requiem RedIn stock£22.65The Dirty Little Secrets of Getting Your Dream JobIn stock£33.34The Coming Woman: A Novel Based on the Life of the Infamous Feminist, Victoria WoodhullIn stock£17.93The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin OlympicsIn stock£22.60The Black MariaIn stock£52.15Starving Hearts (Triangular Trade Trilogy, #1)In stock£13.99Shakespeare's SonnetsIn stock£20.66Set Me FreeIn stock£17.46Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life (Scott Pilgrim #1)In stock£52.29Rip it Up and Start AgainIn stock£35.02Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991In stock£57.25OlioIn stock£23.88Mesaerion: The Best Science Fiction Stories 1800-1849In stock£37.59Libertarianism for BeginnersIn stock£51.33It's Only the HimalayasIn stock£45.17
About Books to Scrape
Books to Scrape returns the 20 products on the first catalog page, in page order, with no input required.
Get first catalog products returns each product’s title, detail page link, displayed price, and stock status.
Built by Fous from books.toscrape.com and checked automatically; it last passed a check on Sep 29, 2026. Fous is not affiliated with Books to Scrape.
Actions
Get first catalog products
1 credit per runGet the 20 products shown on the first Books to Scrape catalog page, with each product’s page link, full title, displayed price, and stock status. Prices are synthetic.
What you provide
Nothing. This action is ready to run.
What you get
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
Productsproducts | List | The 20 products displayed on the first catalog page, in page order. |
Nameproducts[].name | Text | Complete product title from its catalog listing.Example: A Light in the Attic |
Product URLproducts[].product_url | Text | Absolute URL of the book’s detail page.Example: https://books.toscrape.com/catalogue/a-light-in-the-attic_1000/index.html |
Availabilityproducts[].availability | Text | Displayed stock status without extra whitespace.Example: In stock |
Published Priceproducts[].published_price | Text | Price exactly as displayed, including currency symbol.Example: £51.77 |
Example result
For
{
"products": [
{
"name": "A Light in the Attic",
"product_url": "https://books.toscrape.com/catalogue/a-light-in-the-attic_1000/index.html",
"availability": "In stock",
"published_price": "£51.77"
},
{
"name": "Tipping the Velvet",
"product_url": "https://books.toscrape.com/catalogue/tipping-the-velvet_999/index.html",
"availability": "In stock",
"published_price": "£53.74"
},
{
"name": "Soumission",
"product_url": "https://books.toscrape.com/catalogue/soumission_998/index.html",
"availability": "In stock",
"published_price": "£50.10"
}
]
}For developers
Run this workflow from your own code. In Studio, turn on Developer mode and create an API key.
# First set your key: export FOUS_API_KEY='YOUR_FOUS_API_KEY'
: "${FOUS_API_KEY:?Set FOUS_API_KEY before running this example}"
curl 'https://api.fous.com/v1/query' \
--fail-with-body --silent --show-error --max-time 120 \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
"api": "@books-to-scrape",
"visibility": "public",
"operation": "get_first_catalog_products",
"version": 1,
"input": {},
"response": {
"format": "json"
}
}'What you can do with it
- Review book titles and displayed prices
- Check displayed stock status for listed books
- Collect book detail page links
- Compare the first-page catalog listings
Questions
Is Fous affiliated with Books to Scrape?
No. Fous is not affiliated with Books to Scrape. This workflow reads the public books.toscrape.com website and returns its data.
How much does it cost?
Each run costs 1 credit. With pay-as-you-go, a credit costs 1¢; monthly plans cost less per credit.
Do I need a Books to Scrape account?
No. You only need a Fous account.
How current is the data?
Fous gets the data from books.toscrape.com when you run it; repeating the same request within a day may return the saved result. Fous checks this workflow automatically; it last passed a check on Sep 29, 2026.
What books appear on the first catalog page?
Get first catalog products returns the 20 listed products in page order, with their full titles.
What price and stock status are displayed for each book?
Get first catalog products returns each displayed price and stock status. Prices are synthetic.