A page where you can find lesser known original Swedish novels.

I want to read more Swedish original works, and when I asked at my local library, they had no good way to find original works published in Swedish.

But I also want to highlight more today unknown/forgotten Swedish authors and works, since there are a lot of Swedish books that are currently stored in storage where the public is not allowed to browse, so the discoverability of those books are limited.

Run npm install

Run npm run fetch This will:

• For each year from 1850 to current year, call the SPARQL endpoint and fetch the data available
  • This data is cached in /cache/json-sparql
• For each unique title that is returned, try to fetch information from Goodreads using either ISBN or title + author name
  • This data is cached in /cache/goodreads

If anything fails during this, Goodreads start returning 503 because you're getting throttled, wait a bit then re-run the script, since successful response from both the SPARQL and Goodreads API is cached, you can resume the progress right where it stopped.

After this process is done, run npm run import which create SQLite database that is used by elm-pages.

Run npm start which starts the development server on http://localhost:1234

There is e2e testing using Playwright

This base book information is fetched from Libris, provided by Kungliga biblioteket

Libris provides a SPARQL endpoint which is used to fetch all original Swedish books that aren't translated.

The info is enhanced with data from Goodreads, which is where the ratings info comes from.