Comment on To boost Bookwyrm, there should be a tool to scrape book data from Amazon
simple@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Bookwyrm does have a feature to fetch book data from OpenLibrary which is detailed enough. The problem last I checked is that the feature doesn’t replace data of already-existing books, so even if it exists in OL it won’t replace the empty listing in Bookwyrm.
If that feature worked properly or the admin of the instance would update to the newest database of OpenLibrary then it should work fine.
warmaster@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
What if someone put up an instance dedicated only to pulling stuff from OL, wouldn’t those reviews federate to the other Bookwyrm instances ?
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 4 weeks ago
OL reviews are not pulled, just the book data
warmaster@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Damn. Thanks forma clarifying.