By radref on

Anyone thought about creating a librarything module? Just wondering. (http://librarything.com)

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StevenSokulski’s picture

StevenSokulski commented

What would you propose a module for this do? It seems like the site is pretty self contained and I didn't see any logical ways for Drupal to link up with it.

shaggorama’s picture

shaggorama commented

wow am I late on this post. i'm actually looking for a LT module. i'm going to try to accomplish what i need via the amazon module, but here is the functionality i'm personally looking for:

a module that effects a book search. the search searches offsite databases of books and returns results with detailed information, including an image of the book, author, title, etc. Clicking on a result returns a webpage within the domain created on the fly for the book. page can be associated with content, in which case it will be saved as a node (maybe as a view?) in a database table. if the page is not associated with content, then it is not saved although it may be cached.

anyone got any ideas/advice/solutions?

thanks
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toddwoof commented

I'm also interested in a LibraryThing module. I'd like to post my books in LibraryThing because -- well, why build that kind of thing? They're all over it. But I'd like to be able to display book content from my LT collection on my Drupal site in various ways.

Example: Show a list of recent books tagged with some topic, which I would display in a block on an organic group page. Say, books tagged as "web design" show up on a group page for web designers.

Example 2: A search box on my Drupal site, that searches my books on LibraryThing.

Example 3: Show reviews that I've posted on LT on a Reviews page in my Drupal site. Maybe show them as teasers, and let people read the full review on LT.

Incidentally, there are some LT APIs available now. See this page: http://www.librarything.com/services/

Anybody else out there interested in a LT module?

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sikhone commented

I'm also interested in LT module...

Thanks