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AndrewBennet / ReadingListV1

:books: :iphone: Reading List - an iOS app to track personal reading lists
https://readinglist.app
GNU General Public License v3.0
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re-scape imported items to grab cover images #35

Open camjc opened 4 years ago

camjc commented 4 years ago

I'm another ex-goodreads convert, and have transformed my csv file and imported into here. It'd be awesome if I could get ReadingList to go fetch cover images for the imported books. Thanks for a great piece of open source free (freedom) software!

AndrewBennet commented 4 years ago

Hi - thanks for the message! Nice one with the CSV transformation. Could you share the format of the CSV you have from Goodreads, or perhaps an except of the data? I can see whether there's anything I could use to lookup the covers.

camjc commented 4 years ago

It’s got the isbn13s for the far majority, id guess we use that. A button in settings like “grab missing covers” that iterates through could be nice.

AndrewBennet commented 4 years ago

Ah yes, that could be good. I worry slightly about having a button to apply it to all the books -- the Google Books API seems to have a throttle that kicks in if you make too many requests in quick succession. I could add the button to the individual book details view though. But that might be annoying if there are a lot of books without covers... I'll have a think