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Openlibrary looks pretty awesome. Thank you for sharing! Would anyone be interested in having an instant search experience for this books dataset, like the one

by jabo 6y ago

Openlibrary looks pretty awesome. Thank you for sharing! Would anyone be interested in having an instant search experience for this books dataset, like the one I built for the 2M recipes database posted on HN earlier this week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25365397 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25365397

obviyus 6y ago
That would be amazing!
- jabo 6y ago
  Alright! A handful of upvotes in addition to a comment. I’m on it! I’ll whip something up and report back in a few hours.
  - jabo 6y ago
    Looks like it's going to be a while before I can download the dataset. Seems to be pretty slow even when downloading on EC2 with a 10Gpbs connection. ol_dump_latest.txt.gz 0%[ ] 28.73M 115KB/s eta 21h 54m
    - dmje 6y ago
      Be great to see your search on there. I was admiring the speed and accuracy on the post you put on the other day...
      - jabo 6y ago
        Thank you! Working on it as we speak.
mekarpeles 6y ago
Jabo, please also help us @ openlibrary improve our search. @cdrini is the lead on our solr efforts and we could really benefit from teaming with someone who is really passionate about search. If you have questions about using our data, please send over a message and I'm happy to help: mek@archive.org
- jabo 6y ago
  Happy to! Sent you a DM on Twitter, but I'll email you shortly.
jabo 6y ago
Alright! Just pushed the instant search app with the Open Library database live: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25414389 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25414389