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Change "Thriller" query on homepage
Problem
The Thriller carousel on the homepage queries specific authors which means the same works always appear, and also non-thrillers appear by those authors.
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Proposal & constraints
Change the query to https://archive.org/search?query=openlibrary_work%3A%28*%29+AND+collection%3A%28inlibrary%29+AND+%28lending___available_to_browse%3Atrue+OR+lending___available_to_borrow%3Atrue%29+AND+%28%22thriller%22%29&sort=-downloads.
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Wouldn't it be better to query OpenLibrary than Internet Archive? The first scanned volume that that query returns is included because a user review includes the word "thriller" which seems like a dubious inclusion criterium.
No objection. I'm ultimately suggesting the authors not be the search term.
What about this? https://openlibrary.org/search?q=subject%3Athrillers+ratings_count:[1+TO+*]&mode=everything&sort=random.hourly&has_fulltext=true
Note the random sort; currently we sort by recently returned, but we won't be able to do that.
It timed out 2/3 times that I tried it, but modulo that, I think it's an improvement.
Error. Hmm... Sorry. There seems to be a problem with what you were just looking at.
We've noted the error 2024-04-10/152624830521 and will look into it as soon as possible. Head for home?
Gah sorry folks I made a typo in my url! That's what I get for trying to change the url directly :P I fixed it it should work now.
Better. Let's do ratings_count:[2 TO *]. I'm pretty sure someone added a bunch of 1 star ratings to lots of items right when we launched that feature.