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270 points ilamont | 2 comments | 06 Jan 20 20:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.489s | source

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jasonpbecker ◴[06 Jan 20 21:19 UTC] No.21973446[source]▶

>>21972836 (OP) #

Goodreads is desperately in need of a strong competitor.

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teah10 ◴[07 Jan 20 00:15 UTC] No.21975169[source]▶

>>21973446 #

If someone sets out to build a Goodreads competitor, what's everyone's suggestion on how to aggregate book / ISBN / poster reference data? Google Books API comes to mind but I am wondering if there is a self-hosted solution.

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1. OldHand2018 ◴[07 Jan 20 03:44 UTC] No.21976629[source]▶

>>21975169 #

Sure, you can just download the OpenLibrary dataset:

https://openlibrary.org/developers/dumps

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2. klt39429 ◴[07 Jan 20 06:08 UTC] No.21977385[source]▶

>>21976629 (TP) #

woah this is great. Thank you!

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