alt Hacker NewsI applaud the effort, but last time I tried this the major issue was the sheer amount of book data only available from amazon.com and scraping that is tedious to put it mildly.
I applaud the effort, but last time I tried this the major issue was the sheer amount of book data only available from amazon.com and scraping that is tedious to put it mildly.
Hardcover and ISBNDB have a good amount of data, with Hardcover being excellent for getting good covers and genres.
I'm hoping Goodreads and Anna's Archive will help fill in the gaps, especially since Anna's Archive have gigantic database dumps available[1].
[1]: https://todo.sr.ht/~pagina394/librario/12