typesense/showcase-books-search
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A site to instantly search 28M books from OpenLibrary using Typesense Search (an open source alternative to Algolia / ElasticSearch) ⚡ 📚 🔍
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…the records had publish dates that were hard to parse by Date.parse(), so I just set those to 1970: https://github.com/typesense/showcase-books-search/blob/2d38... I didn’t seem to find a popularity metric in the dataset, which would have…
comment by jabo · 2020-12-14 · in Show HN: Instantly search 28M books from OpenLibrary -
I’m using a stop word list on the client side at the moment: https://github.com/typesense/showcase-books-search/blob/01f2... Working on support for exact matches using quotes, which will also help here.
comment by jabo · 2020-12-14 · in Show HN: Instantly search 28M books from OpenLibrary -
I excluded stop words on the client-side for just this site here: https://github.com/typesense/showcase-books-search/blob/01f2... Typesense does support searching by phrases on the server-side.
comment by jabo · 2020-12-14 · in Show HN: Instantly search 28M books from OpenLibrary -
…running on Typesense Cloud [3], with nodes in Oregon, Frankfurt and Mumbai. Here's the source code: https://github.com/typesense/showcase-books-search [1] https://github.com/typesense/typesense [2] https://github.com/typesense/typesense-ins…
comment by jabo · 2020-12-14 · in Show HN: Instantly search 28M books from OpenLibrary