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books | |
December 12th, 2017 | |
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I was thinking about Goodreads this morning and it occurred to me | |
that my book lists are probably available as RSS feeds. I took | |
a look and I was right! | |
I took my read books & currently reading books lists and fetched | |
them via curl and piped them to xmlstarlet to parse. I grabbed the | |
book names & authors, and output the results to a text file on my | |
gopher hole [0][1]. | |
I wanted to run this as a cgi originally. I got it all working to | |
standard out, but on SDF, cgi's run with very little access to the | |
systsem and xmlstarlet is not allowed. Instead I set up a cron to | |
run my script each night at midnight. We'll see how that goes, | |
I guess. | |
[0] Recently read books | |
[1] Reading books |