Datamining Goodreads is almost impossible...

[William]

Datamining Goodreads is almost impossible... for example:

I want to sort All "space opera" books by (a) rating and (b) number of ratings.

Sorting book lists this way is EASY on other sites.

I am sure you can find many other variations on datamining that are currently impossible on Goodreads.

[Anna]

I think they do it that way intentionally, especially now that it's owned by d'Zon. Secrecy is one of their trade secrets :-)

[William]

Lol! :)

[Jonathan]

Amazon wants you to use their suggestion algorithms, not your own. The all seeing eye knows best.

What would be nice is if Amazon took your Goodreads shelves into consideration when making recs when browsing books.

[Anna]

Jonathan wrote: "What would be nice is if Amazon took your Goodreads shelves into consideration when making recs when browsing books..."

Rumor has it that's what they already do.