Oku VS Books Database

I’ve been using https://oku.club and am very happy with it. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

I have been enjoying https://oku.club/ recently in case anyone is searching for a nicely functioning alternative. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

Const { extract } = require('@extractus/feed-extractor') Const { AssetCache } = require('@11ty/eleventy-fetch') Module.exports = async function () { const url = 'https://oku.club/rss/collection/POaRa' const asset = new AssetCache('books_data') if (asset.isCacheValid('1h')) return await asset.getCachedValue() const res = await extract(url).catch((error) => {}) const data = res.entries await... - Source: dev.to / about 1 year ago

I recently tried the new Oku Club app for iOS, and I was impressed by what few brave guys were able to do against the Amazon/Goodreads giant. Just the b/w minimalistic style and the goodreads user data importer are selling points to me. Goodreads is truly lacking, but because it has no competitor they are doing nothing to improve. Oku is good news, and I think those guys are really capable of changing things. The... Source: almost 2 years ago

Another alternative I've seen recently is https://oku.club/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

But you don't have to. What you can also do is, as you already suggested get a list of titles from somewhere (say, from a database of ISBNs or scrape them from Amazon) and perform simple string to string matching (maybe with some fuzziness to account for variation in spelling, where NLP techniques might help). In fact, I would recommend that because titles generally vary a lot, from single words to phrases or... Source: about 2 years ago

Https://isbndb.com/ - they don't have a free plan, so I was not able to test their data yet. Source: over 2 years ago

Yes I've not have the time to look into it. There is an API but it will cost you $10.. Source: over 2 years ago

Do you mind if I ask what database you're using? I've played around with isbndb but yours is a lot better. I like to play around with different types of categorization for books and would LOVE access to this data xD. Source: over 2 years ago