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tmplt / bookwyrm

ncurses utility for downloading publicly available ebooks, plugin support
MIT License
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tui: fetch additional item info for item_details #72

Open tmplt opened 5 years ago

tmplt commented 5 years ago

As has been touched upon briefly in documentation, we should be able to use an item's title, ISBN or similar to fetch additional information about an item from some database when its details are displayed. This operation will be an asyncronous call when an screen::item_details is opened.

Possible databases would be:

Interesting data to fetch from these:

tmplt commented 5 years ago

Whenever a GUI is written, this issue will defenitely apply for that frontend also.

tmplt commented 5 years ago

The databases above both hold item images if applicable. If we really wanna go crazy we can use sixel to display the images in supporting terminal emulators. I'm not aware how it would play with ncurses (if at all), however.