Yesterday's Rose<p>Since there's like *no* good apps for personal <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/library" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>library</span></a> management (because apparently no one has personal libraries any more /s 🙄), I'm looking into building one myself for my own use.</p><p>Problem: I *think* it's easy to find book info by <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/ISBN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ISBN</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/barcode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>barcode</span></a> through services. I mean, ISBNs are standard and handled by almost all services.</p><p>However, it's trickier to find that information for <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/DVD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DVD</span></a> / <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Bluray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bluray</span></a> movies. Especially since I'm in Finland and the <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/UPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UPC</span></a> codes are usually limited to specific release in market area.</p><p>...oh, I found one service that does have (web-scraped?) UPC data for a handful of DVDs that I threw at it.</p><p>Whatever, I just need the titles.</p><p>This service has an API. How do I access this stuff for my tiny little personal app?<br>...you want HOW MUCH per month for this mildly garbled data? 💸</p><p>...OK ok ok. You at least have bulk lookup, right? Upload a spreadsheet, get garbage out?<br>...even that is kinda pricey and adds up to a shitload with the size of my library.</p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/webdev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webdev</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/development" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>development</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/personallibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personallibrary</span></a></p>