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[โ€“] opulentocean@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess the point is being open-source and integrating with open-source projects. Is this the case with LibraryThing? ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not, and it's run by a private for-profit corporation, but once they re-enable their API it doesn't really matter for the purpose of scraping the data. Open data is open data, and integration is just a hook, not part of the core functionality of the app.

[โ€“] Tatar_Nobility@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

See https://github.com/mateusz-bak/openreads-android/issues/90#issuecomment-1722339001

Out of interest, how often do you find issues looking for books on OpenLibrary?

[โ€“] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

I gave up on using any site for tracking books, they all either have partial functionality or limited database. These days, I just use SQLite database with a custom Python scraper that I turned into a basic website that offers everything I need.

But last time I checked Openreads, it missed 9 out of 10 books. That's 10% success rate.