Search books on Indigo.

Searches Indigo, the Canadian bookstore, like its search page: title, format (e.g. Paperback, Hardcover, Kobo eBook), price in CAD, and product link. One entry per format the search shows, so a book can appear more than once. First results page only.

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Site: Indigo, Canada
Version: v1
Runs, last 7 days: No reports yet
sha256: 29e359ecf61e…

Run it with your agent

after installing Wield

Ask in plain words. Your agent finds this recipe and calls it:

“Search books on Indigo.”

Read-only: it changes nothing on the site. No login needed.

{
  "tool": "run",
  "arguments": {
    "recipe_id": "indigo.ca/search-books",
    "params": {
      "query": "Margaret Atwood"
    }
  }
}

Requests

sent from your browser, in order

1GET/search?qSearch results page /search?q=...; read-only GET. The results are in the page's elevar-search-results-view JSON (items with name, variant, price, handle). Product URLs are /products/<handle>.

Parameters

from your agent

querystringrequiredTitle, author or keyword, e.g. 'Margaret Atwood', 'cookbook', 'Harry Potter'

Returns

to your agent

itemsobject[]format, price_cad, title, url

querystring

Where it can send

www.indigo.ca

Anything else is blocked by the extension.

Reads from your session

Nothing. Your browser attaches the site's cookies by itself.

Used only in requests to the addresses on the left. Never sent to wield.run or your agent.

Checks

a run passes when

length(output.items) > `0`
length(output.items[?price_cad != `null`]) > `0`
length(output.items[?starts_with(url, 'https://www.indigo.ca/products/')]) == length(output.items)

Raw recipe

Served as canonical JSON from /api/v1/recipes/indigo.ca/search-books, so its sha256 matches the ETag and the index.

Check it yourself

curl -s https://wield.run/api/v1/recipes/indigo.ca/search-books | shasum -a 256
# 29e359ecf61e0f209b205a762694a329e951f8fca18c86de15b6f0b7bee77c69

indigo.ca/search-books.json, v1

{
  "description": "Searches Indigo, the Canadian bookstore, like its search page: title, format (e.g. Paperback, Hardcover, Kobo eBook), price in CAD, and product link. One entry per format the search shows, so a book can appear more than once. First results page only.",
  "effect": "read",
  "id": "indigo.ca/search-books",
  "keywords": [
    "indigo",
    "indigo.ca",
    "chapters",
    "books",
    "bookstore",
    "livres",
    "book search",
    "canada",
    "canadian",
    "novel",
    "cookbook",
    "paperback",
    "hardcover",
    "ebook"
  ],
  "output": {
    "schema": {
      "properties": {
        "items": {
          "items": {
            "properties": {
              "format": {
                "description": "Edition or format, e.g. 'Paperback', 'Hardcover', 'Kobo eBook'",
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "price_cad": {
                "description": "Price in Canadian dollars",
                "type": [
                  "number",
                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "title": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "url": {
                "type": "string"
              }
            },
            "required": [
              "title",
              "url"
            ],
            "type": "object"
          },
          "type": "array"
        },
        "query": {
          "type": "string"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "query",
        "items"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    },
    "value": "{query: params.query, items: steps.search.items[?name != `null` && handle != `null`].{title: name, format: variant || `null`, price_cad: (price && to_number(price)) || `null`, url: join('', ['https://www.indigo.ca/products/', handle])}}"
  },
  "params": {
    "additionalProperties": false,
    "properties": {
      "query": {
        "description": "Title, author or keyword, e.g. 'Margaret Atwood', 'cookbook', 'Harry Potter'",
        "maxLength": 100,
        "minLength": 2,
        "type": "string"
      }
    },
    "required": [
      "query"
    ],
    "type": "object"
  },
  "provenance": {
    "method": "har",
    "notes": "GET /search?q=<query> returns 200 HTML. The results are in script#elevar-search-results-view (a JSON app snippet with items: id, name, brand, category, variant, price as a string such as '10.99', productId, variantId, handle, and currencyCode CAD). Product links are /products/<handle>. The items are per variant, so one title can repeat with different formats. No cross-site hosts are called.",
    "recorded_at": "2026-11-08T16:45:00.000Z",
    "recorded_by": "wield-forge (claude-haiku agent)"
  },
  "requires_login": false,
  "schema": "https://wield.run/schema/recipe/v1.json",
  "site": {
    "country": "CA",
    "id": "indigo.ca",
    "language": "en",
    "name": "Indigo",
    "origin": "https://www.indigo.ca",
    "origins": [
      "https://www.indigo.ca"
    ]
  },
  "steps": [
    {
      "description": "Search results page /search?q=...; read-only GET. The results are in the page's elevar-search-results-view JSON (items with name, variant, price, handle). Product URLs are /products/<handle>.",
      "expect": {
        "content_type": "html",
        "status": [
          200
        ]
      },
      "extract": {
        "embedded_json": {
          "required": true,
          "selector": "script#elevar-search-results-view",
          "vars": {
            "items": "items"
          }
        }
      },
      "id": "search",
      "request": {
        "headers": {
          "Accept": "text/html"
        },
        "method": "GET",
        "query": {
          "q": "{{params.query}}"
        },
        "url": "/search"
      }
    }
  ],
  "task": "Search books on Indigo",
  "tos": {
    "notes": "Not reviewed. One search page per call, the same page a visitor loads. The site's terms on automated access were not checked.",
    "reviewed": false
  },
  "verify": {
    "checks": [
      "length(output.items) > `0`",
      "length(output.items[?price_cad != `null`]) > `0`",
      "length(output.items[?starts_with(url, 'https://www.indigo.ca/products/')]) == length(output.items)"
    ],
    "example_params": {
      "query": "Margaret Atwood"
    },
    "max_ms": 5000
  },
  "version": 1
}