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Re:A harassment campaign on Goodreads by teah10 on Monday January 06, 2020 @07:15PM (#21975169)
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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Re:A harassment campaign on Goodreads by OldHand2018 on Monday January 06, 2020 @10:44PM (#21976629)
Sure, you can just download the OpenLibrary dataset:

https://openlibrary.org/developers/dumps

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Re:A harassment campaign on Goodreads by klt39429 on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @01:08AM (#21977385)
woah this is great. Thank you!
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