Book Scraping API

An open-source Flask API that retrieves book information from the Babelio website. This API is used to power a personal book library management application (Panthota).

Features

• Babelio scraping: Retrieves detailed book information based on the book title / author or ISBN.
• Data Return: Returns data like title, author, cover image, summary.
• Frontend Communication: This API is used by a Next.js application to display the results and store books in a MongoDB database.

Installation

Prerequisites

• Python version 3.13 or above
• Poetry to install dependencies

Installation and Running Steps

git clone https://github.com/Spaames/babelio-scraping-api.git
cd babelio-scraping-api
poetry update
python3.13 app.py

By default, the app serves on localhost and on basic flask port (5000). Edit the app.py to change this.

Docker

You can use the dockerfile to build docker image or you can get it here : babelio-scraping-api

Endpoints

• /search : GET -- params : query= --> return the result of the search field as a list of book (title, author, cover and book_url)
• /book : GET -- params : query=<book_url> --> return data for a specific book url,