First time looking at lemmy. But I hope this will be a fun place to use and the community grows here a bit.

Lets come to topic I guess. I would like to build up a proper datasource for light novels which can be used in different ways. Basically my idea is to collect as much info on light novel data as I can (stuff like authors, illustrators, release date, etc) and then contribute all of it to open library (a project of the internet archives)

On top of the open library other people then can built cool interfaces and stuff.

Right now I am working on gathering the info using some scraping techniques and just hit my head against the wall until it eventually crumbles lol. I had some success but I will only be able to get data on english and german releases of light novel, since I don't speak japanese ^^"

If someone want (or can) help me out gathering data let me know. Also if you happen to know websites that contain japanese infos let me know.