The daily Open Library trending-books feed from one REST endpoint. A clean read on what people are actually reading, served as JSON without scraping, for publishing, media and book-world research.
# one POST, every source POST https://api.trendsapi.ai/api Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY { "mode": "get_growth", "source": "open library books", "keyword": "trending books", "percent_growth": ["3M", "12M"] }
{
"type": "Open Library Trending Books",
"trends": [
{ "rank": 1, "title": "Project Hail Mary" },
{ "rank": 2, "title": "The Midnight Library" },
{ "rank": 3, "title": "Atomic Habits" }
],
"timestamp": "2026-08-03T12:00:00Z"
}Book attention moves differently from social buzz: a title climbing the Open Library trending feed is holding readers, not just catching a spike. For publishers, booksellers, authors and media, that is a signal worth tracking alongside search and social.
Open Library exposes a trending view but not a clean programmatic feed for it. Trends API serves the daily trending-books feed as JSON in the same shape as the other 20 live feeds, so you can line reading attention up against search, social and shopping signals.
See which titles and genres are holding reader attention.
Spot rising books before they hit the bestseller lists.
Time promotion to rising reading attention.
Track what the book world is reading right now.
| Scraping Open Library | Trends API | |
|---|---|---|
| Clean feed | scrape the trending view | one call, JSON |
| Breakage | page changes break scrapers | managed |
| Cross-platform compare | no | same scale as 20 other feeds |
| Free tier | n/a | 100 requests/month |
Historical trend series for a keyword on this source, normalized 0-100.
Growth percentages over 3M / 6M / 12M / 5Y windows.
21 live trending feeds across platforms, no keyword needed.
The daily Open Library Trending Books feed, no keyword needed, via get_top_trends with type "Open Library Trending Books".
Open Library exposes a trending view but not a clean programmatic feed. Trends API serves it as JSON.
It updates daily with the Open Library trending chart. Every response includes a timestamp.
Publishers, booksellers, authors and media tracking what people are actually reading.
Yes. Pull the books feed alongside Google or TikTok signals and compare in the same normalized shape.
100 requests a month free. No credit card, no sales call. One key works for every source.
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