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Save every edition with each title, author, rank and weeks on the list in one growing spreadsheet.
Every book becomes a row.
Archive the best-seller lists across book categories every week, with each title's rank and author.
Best sellers| List | Rank | Title | Author | Weeks on list | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Combined Print & E-Book Fiction | 1 | A COURT OF SPLINTERED HARMONY | by Sarah J. Maas | New this week | The sixth book in the "Court of Thorns and Roses" series. Former alliances must be restored to fight the threat of Koschei the Deathless. |
| Combined Print & E-Book Fiction | 2 | THE HOLLOW | by Michael Connelly | New this week | The 21st book in the Harry Bosch series. Bosch investigates the facility where he was a ward of the state in his youth. |
| Combined Print & E-Book Fiction | 3 | THRESHING DAY | by Rebecca Yarros | 5 weeks on the list | Thirteen short stories, set in the Empyrean world, in which cadets compete to earn the bond of a dragon. |
| Combined Print & E-Book Fiction | 4 | THEO OF GOLDEN | by Allen Levi | 48 weeks on the list | A man travels to a small Southern town, where he purchases pencil drawings of local residents and exchanges them for stories. |
| Combined Print & E-Book Fiction | 5 | THE FRENCH ILLUSION | by John Grisham | 5 weeks on the list | When a couple is kidnapped during a honeymoon trip in the French countryside, a young lawyer is used as part of a C.I.A. operation. |
| Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction | 1 | IN THE SHADOW OF EIGHT | by Collin Gosselin with Allie Kingsley Baker | 3 weeks on the list | A dark tell-all by one of the sextuplets from the reality TV series “Jon & Kate Plus 8.” |
| Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction | 2 | PRINCES AND THIEVES | by Matthew Cole | New this week | An account of the financial and political alliances between Jared Kushner, Erik Prince, Mohamed bin Zayed and Mohammed bin Salman. |
| Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction | 3 | AND I WILL TELL YOU MINE | by Sophia Bush | New this week | The actress, activist and host of the "Work in Progress With Sophia Bush" podcast shares stories from her life and career. |
| Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction | 4 | THE AMERICAN WAY OF KILLING | by Malcolm Gladwell | 5 weeks on the list | Gladwell examines why there are so many homicides in the United States and what stops us from fixing this issue. |
| Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction | 5 | BLOCKERS | by Michael Lewis | 4 weeks on the list | The author of “The Fifth Risk” tells the story of President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency through the lens of six public servants. |
| Paperback Trade Fiction | 1 | THEO OF GOLDEN | by Allen Levi | 49 weeks on the list | A man travels to a small Southern town, where he purchases pencil drawings of local residents and exchanges them for stories. |
| Paperback Trade Fiction | 2 | THE KEEPER | by Ana Huang | New this week | The third book in the Gods of the Game series. Carina Vu becomes a nanny to the daughter of a goalkeeper who is also a single dad. |
| Paperback Trade Fiction | 3 | A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES | by Sarah J. Maas | 94 weeks on the list | After killing a wolf in the woods, Feyre is taken from her home and placed inside the world of the Fae. |
| Paperback Trade Fiction | 4 | DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL | by Matt Dinniman | 44 weeks on the list | A Coast Guard vet named Carl and his ex-girlfriend’s cat, Princess Donut, are trapped in a fantasy dungeon. |
| Paperback Trade Fiction | 5 | CHRISTMAS STAYCATION | by Meghan Quinn | 2 weeks on the list | The third book in the "How My Neighbor Stole Christmas" series. Taran is caught between brothers this holiday season. |
| Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover | 1 | THIS IS A DOOR | by Daniel Nayeri | New this week | A boy named Nothing the Younger and his friends accompany the Wander Prince on an adventure to defeat the Giantess. (Ages 8 to 12) |
| Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover | 2 | THE WILD ZONE | by Rick Riordan and Annabelle Oh | 5 weeks on the list | Campers venture into the forest’s forbidden Wild Zone. (Ages 10 to 14) |
| Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover | 3 | WONDER | by R.J. Palacio | 567 weeks on the list | A boy with a facial deformity starts school. (Ages 8 to 12) |
| Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover | 4 | THE COMPLETE COOKBOOK FOR YOUNG CHEFS | by America's Test Kitchen Kids | 293 weeks on the list | Over 100 kid-tested recipes from America's Test Kitchen. (Ages 8 and up) |
| Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover | 5 | BUILDING 903 | by Lois Lowry | 5 weeks on the list | Tessa delves into the mystery of her missing twin brother, Theo. (Ages 8 to 12) |
| Young Adult Hardcover | 1 | TRUST FALL | by Lynn Painter | 5 weeks on the list | As a condition of a surprise inheritance, a small-town Nebraskan girl and her family move to New York City. (Ages 14 and up) |
| Young Adult Hardcover | 2 | SCORPION DEEP | by CG Drews | New this week | Jonathan Covey performs a ritual that awakens the god Scorpion Deep, which he later regrets. (Ages 13 to 18) |
| Young Adult Hardcover | 3 | THE SIXTH FACTION | by Veronica Roth | 4 weeks on the list | When Beatrice Prior’s choosing ceremony is interrupted by rebels, her life is changed. (Ages 13 and up) |
| Young Adult Hardcover | 4 | YOU'RE NO BETTER | by Andrew Joseph White | New this week | In an attempt to prove that he’s nothing like his serial killer father, Morgan hunts for the identity of his father’s final victim, Jane Doe. (Ages 14 and up) |
| Young Adult Hardcover | 5 | MORTAL THINGS | by Marie Lu | New this week | Rose Lin Fairchild becomes a Harbinger for the god of death, Raven, in a deal to save her best friend’s life. (Ages 14 to 18) |
| Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous | 1 | SIMPLY INA | by Ina Garten | 2 weeks on the list | – |
| Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous | 2 | CONTEND | by Philip Anthony Mitchell | 3 weeks on the list | – |
| Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous | 3 | SIMPLE KITCHEN MAGIC | by Rebekah Moyer | New this week | – |
| Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous | 4 | THE LET THEM THEORY | by Mel Robbins and Sawyer Robbins | 97 weeks on the list | – |
| Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous | 5 | PROTOCOLS | by Andrew D. Huberman with Jessica Wapner | 7 weeks on the list | – |
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Why build a best-seller archive.
See trends as they form
Spot the genres and authors that climb the lists week after week.
Own the history
Keep every edition in your own dataset, ready to search and chart.
Research with real numbers
Count debuts, returns and weeks on the list instead of reading pages one by one.
Feed your reports and models
Give your analysis, newsletter or model a clean table every week.
Keep every edition.
Skip duplicates automatically.
Run it again and only new listings are added, with nothing saved twice.
Learn morePaste a list of links.
Add every product, profile or company page you want and one recipe runs them all.
Learn moreEvery page, not just the first.
Follow next-page links and infinite scroll to scrape every page of results.
Learn moreAdd a column with AI.
Ask a question about every listing and get the answer as a new column.
Learn moreSend it where you work.
Rows go straight to Google Sheets, Airtable, Zapier, a webhook or the API.
Build a best-seller archive in five steps.
- 1
Open the lists
Find the best-seller lists, charts or section pages you want to keep.
- 2
Choose the fields you need
In the Chrome extension or the dashboard, select one entry and pick its rank, title, author and weeks on the list.
- 3
Collect every list
Add each category's page so one recipe reads them all.
- 4
Run it every week
Schedule the recipe for the day the lists update, so every edition is saved.
- 5
Send it to your archive
Send each run to Google Sheets, Airtable or your own database through a webhook.
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Get in touchFAQ
Which lists and sites can I archive?
Any public best-seller list, chart, ranking or news section page, from book lists and music charts to newspaper headlines.
Can I keep every week's edition?
Yes. Schedule the recipe weekly and every run keeps its results, and Google Sheets adds each edition as new rows.
Can I collect article text as well as headlines?
Yes. Simplescraper can open each article linked from a section page and read its text into the same row, where the article is on a public page.
Can it read articles behind a paywall?
Only with your own subscription. Simplescraper reads what the page shows you, so paywalled articles need you signed in through the Chrome extension.
Do I need to write code or selectors?
No. Select one entry and Simplescraper reads the same fields from every other entry on the page.
Can it collect lists from before I started?
Only where the site keeps past editions on public pages. Otherwise your archive starts with your first run.