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Plex metadata scraper for Audiobooks
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Add alternate data source: OpenLibrary #33

Closed ordinarygulp closed 4 years ago

ordinarygulp commented 5 years ago

I am trying to settle on a solid source for audiobook metadata (even for manual scraping), and have yet to find a great source. One I did find that seems to encourage an open-database type metadata, is OpenLibrary. They also seem to have an API, so could that be used? https://openlibrary.org/developers

macr0dev commented 5 years ago

The only problem with a site like this is that there are infinitely more books than something like TV Shows or Movies. Which means that crowdsourcing that kind of data is going to be a LOT of work and is likely to fall on the people who want to use the plugin in the first place. So, while I'm not against a site like this - I can already tell that even for my own uses I'd be adding QUITE a few books to make it work.

Also, the covers aren't in the right format - nor does there appear to be a place to enter audiobook specific types of data.

macr0dev commented 4 years ago

Cleaning up old issues. Closing.