Scraping global platforms: Books & Media
Book retail scraping worldwide: new releases, bestsellers, formats and prices in one base.
The book segment worldwide is perfectly structured for data: ISBN makes edition matching exact, and cards carry authors, publishers and formats. Scraping turns store catalogs into a ready bibliographic base with prices.
There are 22 platforms here, led by Steam, Adlibris, Audible by domain authority. Site size is not a constraint: catalogs with hundreds of thousands of SKUs and small stores are normalized to the same field schema, making sellers directly comparable.
Brands you will meet across these stores include Nintendo, PlayStation, Ubisoft, Sony, Xbox, EA. The product-to-brand mapping ships with the data: convenient for distribution control and shelf comparison.
Delivery is tailored to the task: from a one-off Excel/CSV file to a stream of updates via API or into your DBMS. We start with a free data sample — you verify structure and quality before any payment.
Fields we collect: Books & Media
The baseline set for this category — extended to fit your task.
title, author, ISBN, publisher, series
binding, e-book, audio, language
current and old price, pre-order, discount
status, delivery times, print run
annotation, page count, year
rating and number of ratings
Jobs this scraping gets done
Edition prices across stores, matched by ISBN.
New editions and pre-orders by publisher.
Catalog depth by genre and language.
A publisher’s catalog presence across chains.
Stores in this category worldwide
Ranked by domain authority — price scraping and scheduled price monitoring are available for any platform below.
| # | Store | DR |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Steam |
92 |
| 2 | Adlibris |
85 |
| 3 | Audible |
83 |
| 4 | Audible |
80 |
| 5 | G2A |
78 |
| 6 | Fnac |
77 |
| 7 | Thalia |
77 |
| 8 | Instant Gaming |
76 |
| 9 | Fnac |
75 |
| 10 | EB Games Australia |
72 |
| 11 | Buscalibre Colombia |
70 |
| 12 | GameStop Canada |
65 |
| 13 | Buscalibre |
63 |
| 14 | GameStop |
61 |
| 15 | The Nile |
61 |
| 16 | GameStop |
58 |
| 17 | Game Mania |
51 |
| 18 | Momox |
41 |
| 19 | Gear4music |
33 |
| 20 | Storytel |
29 |
| 21 | Kinokuniya Indonesia |
28 |
| 22 | Buscalibre Perú |
0 |
DR (Domain Rating) — domain authority on a 0–100 scale; it reflects link-profile strength, not sales.
Top platforms: what gets scraped
Quick notes on the leaders of this list — any of them can be plugged into the same field structure.
For Steam we collect edition, format — with change history — useful for repricing and assortment control.
From Adlibris we usually extract format, prices, availability. The export arrives in the same structure as the rest of this list, so the data compares directly.
From Audible we usually extract prices, availability, description. The export arrives in the same structure as the rest of this list, so the data compares directly.
From Audible we usually extract availability, description, reviews. The export arrives in the same structure as the rest of this list, so the data compares directly.
For G2A we collect description, reviews — with change history — useful for repricing and assortment control.
From request to first delivery
Request & brief
Pick platforms from the list, define fields and cadence.
Data sample
We show the structure on a real catalog fragment, free.
Full collection
Entire catalogs, with quality and dedup control.
Data delivery
Excel, CSV, JSON, API or your DBMS — one-off or scheduled.
Frequently asked questions
Do you match editions by ISBN?
Are e-books and audiobooks covered?
Can we follow specific publishers?
Other categories: Global market
Store scraping for other categories in the same geography.