I would image that it is indeed against their terms but when it comes to crawling it always feels like a grey area. Always "it depends". Interesting idea! For

I would image that it is indeed against their terms but when it comes to crawling it always feels like a grey area. Always "it depends". Interesting idea! For some reason it seems that books can be really tricky. With that said, Google does have a books API[1] that I played with in an earlier project. I guess that explains why there haven't been any real competitors to Goodreads even people complain about how terrible is the service all over the internet. Related to books, few days ago this app[2] was trending on HN which I thought was pretty cool. 1 - https://developers.google.com/books https://developers.google.com/books 2 - https://hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app https://hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app