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Originally Posted by Nicolas F
It could be interesting to scrape the other languages amazon websites since goodreads have a very good database of english titles but isn't has good for foreign editions (searching for french titles in my case). But I haven't included it in what I coded. It could be done with an option to chose which stores to use.
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Honestly I'm not so fond of that idea. I was on the fence regarding doing scraping in the first place, but since you took the initiative of contributing with an initial implementation I decided move forward — but maintaining code to scrape all the different Amazon local sites is not something I really look forward to.
I will be more open to the idea if somebody like yourself volunteers to be the maintainer for the Amazon scraping code for each local website. I could keep this code in separate source files to make it easier for others to maintain it, and make each local store an option that you must explicitly opt-in, as you said. Then any issues with Amazon won't affect the default configuration, nor slow down the cover lookup.
What do you think?