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Mek here from internet archive's OpenLibrary.org.

Open Library was started by @aaronsw.

We're a library catalog with 3M+ books to read & borrow.

We've been around for 15 years, not going anywhere.

We're open source and non profit: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary

We defend patron privacy, offer free APIs, and release all public data openly: https://openlibrary.org/developers/dumps

Most projects on this page have likely used our data.

We have a Reading Log and several other more substantial features in the works.

Our catalog spans more than 20M works: https://openlibrary.org/stats

You can help! https://openlibrary.org/volunteer

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Are there any plans where metadata for Internet Archive patrons could be scoped to API tokens or applications (Oauth2), so that external applications could add value for users on top of the Internet Archive corpus?

This is great! Thank you for the interest!

We've had a rudimentary bot system for the past 10 years or so. Let's please talk if you where others would like to get set up with a bot account and write access!

https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/wiki/Writing-...

Contact: mek@archive.org

This is exactly why I came to this thread. Thank you!

Are you aware that all the stats at the bottom of the homepage except for "ebooks borrowed" are zero?

Yes!

Here's the issue: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/5022

Sorry about that, on the docket for this upcoming week.

We're currently staffed by two eng (myself included) w/ ~80 open PRs, 500 issues, just finalized a py2 to 3 migration, and reprovisioned all of our servers w/ docker so we're playing catch-up on some newly surfaced issues.

Please do open such issues so we're aware! It's a huge way to help.

The issue mentioned above is happening because our cron jobs got moved from one machine to another.

Will reply here when resolved.

> Will reply here when resolved.

Seems other things came your way, but it seems like it's resolved now. There's plenty of stats on https://openlibrary.org/stats now and none are zero.

Allow me to hijack - I'm working on something to make the experience of reading the text-only version of books on OpenLibrary better (if they decide to integrate it when it's done.) Email's in the profile if you want to help out.

(Hi Mek! Thanks for the help so far)

Apparently K.A. Applegate is the second most prolific science fiction author. That's amazing and hilarious. I think a bunch of Animorphs were ghost written though.

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