Show HN: An advanced book searching tool

#1

Post by david_2107 » Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 11:50 AM UTC

Show HN: An advanced book searching tool
book-filter.com

Re: Show HN: An advanced book searching tool

#2

Post by CrypticShift » Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 3:40 PM UTC

I always wanted to sort/filter goodreads like this. I don't know how you scraped the site, but the Kaggle datasets I've seen are always deficient in one way or another: either too small (less than 10k), or books are scraped randomly (not top), or (at best) they use Best Books Ever lists (skips many top-rated books). I hope your source data is better.

Thanks !

Re: Show HN: An advanced book searching tool

#3

Post by david_2107 » Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 9:29 PM UTC

CrypticShift wrote: post #2

I always wanted to sort/filter goodreads like this. I don't know how you scraped the site, but the Kaggle datasets I've seen are always deficient in one way or another: either too small (less than 10k), or books are scraped randomly (not top), or (at best) they use Best Books Ever lists (skips many top-rated books). I hope your source data is better. Thanks !

Haha thanks! I've had to build my own custom scrapers unfortunately. It's unfortunate that they haven't implemented something so basic yet...