This is how I built 'Bookle Trends' in less than 20 minutes. 👇
— Sacha Fournier (@sacha_vyzz) March 20, 2023
It's a Google Trends clone to track topic mentions in books, with advanced search functionality and history dating back 50+ years.
+ How you can use it to secure some insane digital PR links for your own sites 🔗 pic.twitter.com/s7JLylYSek
I first came across the OpenLibrary API in a campaign centred around 'The World's Most Written About Cities'. Credit to @ilikeyoumatt for the idea 👏🏼.
— Sacha Fournier (@sacha_vyzz) March 20, 2023
OpenLibrary is part of Archive(.)org and offers various ways to access the data from their collection of 20M+ books.
Here's how you can use the tool for your own niche specific digital PR campaign:
— Sacha Fournier (@sacha_vyzz) March 20, 2023
- Tech: View mentions of AI over time.
- Baby: Compare the use of peoples names over time.
- Pets: View the number of books published about dogs over time. Can compare breeds + types.
- Travel: Report on the popularity of a destination/compare its growth to a similar place.
— Sacha Fournier (@sacha_vyzz) March 20, 2023
- Fashion: Track popularity of clothing items over time (e.g. skinny jeans vs flares).
- Health: Find mentions of ailments over time (increase/decrease).
The possibilites are endless.
Want to get technical?
— Sacha Fournier (@sacha_vyzz) March 20, 2023
Bookle Trends supports the OpenLibrary solr query spec. Think of these as the equivalent of Google Advanced Search Operators.
Operators you can use for digital PR include:
- 'place:'
- 'title:'
- 'subject:'
You can even combine them using AND, OR, NOT. pic.twitter.com/Nxxhbg194Y
The best thing about this tool is that I built it using a total of 3 (yes 3) ChatGPT-4 prompts!
— Sacha Fournier (@sacha_vyzz) March 20, 2023
Here's how my first draft prompt looked 👀
PS. Once it's given you the code, the easiest thing to do is paste it into a free online editor such as JsFiddle to give it a sense check. pic.twitter.com/SThuI2xZox
Want to give it a try?
— Sacha Fournier (@sacha_vyzz) March 20, 2023
Check it out here:https://t.co/NwaIj92uO2
Known limitations:
- No error handing
- Super Alpha MVP
- API rate limited to 100 queries per 5 mins (each year is a query)
- Code definitely isn't optimal
- Requesting a higher number of years is slow
