internetarchive
Author ID should be searchable when searching by author
When searching for an author using advanced search, it is not possible to search by author ID. If one tries, there are no results. To search by ID, one must switch to the general search.
Evidence / Screenshot (if possible)
Relevant url?
https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=OL781673A&mode=everything
Steps to Reproduce
- Go to ...https://openlibrary.org/search/authors
- Do ...search for a valid author ID, for example, OL781673A.
- Actual: No results.
- Expected: The author associated with that ID should be returned. https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL781673A/Stephanie_Urdang
Details
- Logged in (Y/N)?
- Browser type/version?
- Operating system?
- Environment (prod/dev/local)? prod
Proposal & Constraints
- Use a regular expression to check if the search term is an open library author id, and if so, search just for
key:/authors/{olid}.
Related files
Stakeholders
@cdrini
Equally, title search on a work ID hits "No results found": https://openlibrary.org/search?q=title%3A+%22OL9170454W%22
Dear @cdrini and @seabelis,
Today morning I encountered this issue and started working on it.
I have raised a Pull Request #7945 solving this issue.
I am new to open source and really enjoyed working on the openlibrary code base.
Please let me know if any changes are required to the PR and I will gladly get working on that.
Thanks Arghyadeep
