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X-Ray Creator plugin for Calibre
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New source for character insights #101

Open ketanarlulkar opened 7 years ago

ketanarlulkar commented 7 years ago

We can use wikia.com for information on characters and locations settings in book. For e.g. for Throne of Glass we have http://throneofglass.wikia.com/.

szarroug3 commented 7 years ago

Hm, I'll have to look into it. I think I liked into it before but it was complicated but I'll try again. Thanks for the suggestion!

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szarroug3 commented 7 years ago

I've been looking into it and it's a lot harder to do than it seems. Not all wikia fandoms have the same layout. I.e if you look at the Mistborn: The Final Empire vs A Game of Thrones, they both have a characters section but one names it "Characters" and the other names it "Point of View Characters". In the Game of Thrones wikia, it's not immediately clear (programmatically, at least) what the characters name is (it lists the number of chapters the character is mentioned THEN the name then the description where as mistborn has the format character - description). Yet another example to look at is [Words of Radiance]( Words of Radiance). This wikia has a characters section but it's a bunch of links. Following those links takes you to a general wikia article for the character and it's not easy to get a good description out of those pages because it's not easy to figure out what part of the page to take for the description. It's also not a good place to get the description because for series where there's recurring characters, the characters article usually contains spoilers for future books (i.e Words of Radiance's character Kaladin. You definitely don't want to put that in the description.

All in all, this is proving to be a pretty difficult task so I don't know if I'll be able to get it working but I'll keep looking.

ketanarlulkar commented 6 years ago

Yes, it is difficult. Perhaps characters listed on Wikipedia page are easy to read information from. e.g. The Death Cure Ready Player One

szarroug3 commented 6 years ago

It's not. Pages that aren't uniform in their data are all going to come with the same difficulties. That's why Goodreads and Shelfari we're so good.

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Yes, it is difficult. Perhaps characters listed on Wikipedia page are easy to read information from. e.g. The Death Cure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_Cure#Characters Ready Player One https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready_Player_One#Characters

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ketanarlulkar commented 6 years ago

LibraryThing has APIs here

szarroug3 commented 6 years ago

Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't see any character information on the book pages or an API call to get character information.

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ketanarlulkar commented 6 years ago

I think, once can easily scrap the character wiki from character page of librarything. e.g. Hari Seldon a charecter from Foundation has page here

Also the character info on LibraryThing is editable by anyone, but the same is not true for goodreads. Also for a book e.g. The Stars, Like Dust there are many characters listed on librarything website than on goodreads book page.