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Books common among the people you follow

From the Goodreads Feedback forum, Sophie (2013) or Madharper (2019) or Anne (2018):

I often choose a book to read if many of the people I follow have read it (and rated it high). Anyway, to find these kind of books isn't always easy especially if they are published many years ago and do not pop up in my news feed daily. Could Goodreads develop a feature which recommends a book because it is common among the people I follow?

This

Screenshot

The report also includes a table with the most liked authors among the friends and followees:

Screenshot

How to generate this on a GNU/Linux operating system

  1. Install the toolbox
  2. at the prompt, enter:
$ ./friendrated.pl --help
$ ./friendrated.pl goodlogin@example.com

Enter GR password for goodlogin@example.com: **************
Signing in to Goodreads... OK
Getting list of members known to #18418712... 164 members (0.18s)
[  0%] Aron Mellendar            #21254511    247 read      94 hits     0.41s
[  1%] Moshe Fiono               #3932835     520 read     126 hits     0.80s
[  2%] Peter Glowwa              #18936366    392 read     148 hits     0.58s
[  3%] DuyGeboad                 #73957929      9 read       0 hits     0.05s
[  3%] Michael                   #9482539      88 read      61 hits     0.15s
[  5%] Peter Prischl             #17272051   1034 read     913 hits     1.47s
[  6%] Steven Shoffork           #51011129     69 read      50 hits     0.15s
[  7%] 2mo                       #32504210     12 read       6 hits     0.07s
...
[ 99%] Charlene                  #2442665    1172 read     732 hits     2.41s
[100%] David                     #7634567     142 read      58 hits     0.01s

Perfect! Got favourites of 164 users.
Writing results to:
./list-out/friendrated-1234567-read.html           (271 books)
./list-out/friendrated-1234567-read-authors.htmml  (210 authors)

Total time: 18 minutes

Note:

You can break the process with CTRL-C and continue later without having to re-read all online sources again, as reading from Goodreads.com is very time consuming. The script internally uses a file-cache which is busted after 31 days and saves to /tmp/FileCache/.

"0 read 0 hits" is either an empty shelf or a shelf accessible only to friends of that person (depends on your login).

Alternative reports

  • most wished-for books among the members you follow: use --toread option
  • most hated books among the members you follow: use --hated option
  • there are options (--help) to fine-tune the reports, e.g., only include books published in a specific time-range, exclude bestsellers etc.

Observations and limitations

  • long runtime: Goodreads slows down all requests and we have to load a lot of data
  • books in the upper value range are usually well-known titles, fiction, classics, no surprises
  • female GR members mainly read fiction, tend to give 4 and 5 stars pretty generously, and their networks are female
    • start with harsh program settings: min rating of 5 and rated by min 5 followees
  • "common authors" tables can be misleading, at the moment: it just counts the frequency of a name but does not take into account the aggregated ratings of a member for a specific author, example: 20 members hate 10 books of an author except 1 book. the program would count 20x a love relationship for this author, although the books in general of this author are more often hated

Feedback

If you like this project, give it a star on GitHub. Report bugs or suggestions via GitHub or see the AUTHORS.md file.

See also