Openlibrary: Create data pipeline from weekly threads on Reddit's r/books
Creating a carousel that gets data from Reddit might be a way to provide fresh, varying content on the front page. Weekly threads like What Books Did You Start or Finish Reading This Week? have book titles that are relatively easy to parse out.
cdrini
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I'm not sure how'd we'd programmatically pull books from reddit, but I think the idea is cool. Assigning jdlrobson (not tagging per request) as this is front end related.
xayhewalo
on 5 Nov 2019
I'll take this one; this so much my cup of tea. (The main plan is finding the bold Title, by author text, and then searching solr for title:"title" author:"author" and collecting results. It doesn't have to be perfect).
cdrini
on 12 Nov 2019
I'd strongly advise against more carousels until we have the data requested in #2160
jdlrobson
on 12 Nov 2019
This is something I'm pretty excited about implementing even if its final form factor isn't a carousel. Although I highly doubt I'll have the time to implementing it any time soon :P
cdrini
on 12 Nov 2019
@cdrini I've changed the title of this issue to better reflect the end goal.
xayhewalo
on 12 Nov 2019
Nice! That's exactly what I had in mind :)
cdrini
on 12 Nov 2019
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@cdrini I've changed the title of this issue to better reflect the end goal.