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majora2007

Kavita developer here. Colibri looks great, keep at it.

I saw that you support fetching author information, etc, where are you sourcing that information?

My plan is to query several public data sources [from within a web worker on the client, to avoid restrictions], such as WikiData, ISBN DB, the Library of Congress API, GoodReads, and a few others. There's really a lot of open data available; I want Colibri to automatically pull in metadata on books and authors, if possible.

I have prototyped a lot on this, but not published it yet. It works pretty well :)

But currently it's from openlibrary.org right? https://github.com/colibri-hq/colibri/blob/next/apps/app/src...

Yes, although I wouldn’t take that code at face value; the OpenLibrary implementation was more of a test to see how flexible an implementation of the metadata service can be.

When ready, these will be documented and extensible!

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