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by cqcn1991 3254 days ago
Hi, anyone enjoys reading nonfictions (e.g. business, social science, biography and others) here? I enjoy reading them a lot, because I can always learn a lot from them.

However, a lot of books on Amazon simply do not have good ratings, and sometimes I need to spend a long time to find a good book to read. so I collect the data from Amazon and apply some filter and made this site. The books being displayed are with good review stats.

I hope this is helpful for you to find some good books.

1 comments

Very cool! When you say you "collect the data from Amazon," are you scraping this or using an API? If the latter, which API and where can I go to read about it? I also would love to be able to query this kind of information from Amazon.
I scrape the data. The API from Amazon seems not very informative.