Existing prize-winning books have a little marker that describes which prize they won. I added a new book but the marker did not show up for it (not even after some time passed in which any nightly batch jobs could have been run).
I think those are added manually
Except if it appears in the Amazon data that can be pulled for the book, I donât think it can be automated at all.
Edit: just checked the page on Amazon and I donât think itâs available anywhere else than in the book blurb, which cannot be reliably parsed automatically.
I was thinking of automatically comparing the book title (+ author) against the lists of prize winners, which would catch most (if not all) cases, donât you think?
That makes sense I guess Wikipedia has a somewhat easy to parse list. A bit hard to generalize to other prizes (since all have slightly different formats) though, but I guess thatâs up to @brandon to decide.
It would be nice if there was a source providing that info in a csv format or something like that. I kinda remember seeing one source like that for the Akutagawa prize.
Indeed! OTOH once the initial data has been parsed, there is not much change actually, only a small handful of books per year, and it might be less time-consuming to just add them manually instead of working with a csv feed that might even break at some pointâŠ
So this isnât a bug as itâs all been manually marked up until this point.
While itâs a nice idea to automatically add them, tbf there just arenât that many⊠and in general matching titles can be a bit of a nightmare. I think simply using the âSomething not right?â button and sending manual reports would be the way to go for now.
In my very technical mind it became a bug the moment you added the automatic addition of books
But letâs not split hairs over this. In my perfectionist mind Iâm a bit sad because this will inevitably lead to books not being marked properly, thus the Natively data will become unreliable. But other than that, Iâm fine with requesting this manually.
The adding books automatically relies in the Amazon API.
If Amazon provided that information in the API it would be easy is my guess, but thatâs not the case, and it would require to do another request to a different database/service, and it might not be 100% accurate.
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