goodreadsh

Command line interface for Goodreads

Installation

Homebrew

Easiest way to install on macOS is by using Homebrew.

$ brew tap prakashdanish/homebrew-formulae
$ brew install goodreadsh

AUR

Arch users can install with their preferred package manager, I'm using trizen here.

$ trizen -S goodreadsh

Manual installation

$ git clone https://github.com/prakashdanish/goodreadsh && cd goodreadsh
$ export PATH="$PATH:/path/to/dir"
$ chmod +x goodreads

Developer key

goodreadsh requires your developer key in order to use the goodreads API, obtaining one is fairly trivial.

1. Access your developer key here.
2. Copy your developer key over to goodreadsh's config file. ~/.goodreads.conf

DEVELOPER_KEY="<your_key_here>"

Your config file should already be present in your home dir ~/.goodreads.conf and if it's not, then run the command once without any options or create the file manually.

Usage

=========
goodreads
=========

Usage: 
  goodreads [option]

Options:
  book:     book related options
  author:   author related options
  user:     user related options
  help:     show help message



====
book
====

Usage:
  goodreads book [--option] [title]

Options:
  -r --rating:        show average rating
  -R --rating-dist:   show rating distribution
  -a --author:        show author name
  -d --desc:          show book description
  -g --id:            show goodreads id



======
author
======

Usage:
  goodreads author [--option] [name]

Options:
  -b --books:         show top books by author
  -B --all-books:     show all books by author
  -a --about:         show about author
  -i --info:          show author info
  -g --id:            show goodreads id



====
user
====

Usage:
  goodreads user [--option] [username|id]

Options:
  -a --about:             show user info
  -g --id:                show goodreads id
  -s --shelf [label]:     show books from given shelf

Examples

$ goodreads book --rating 1984
4.16

$ goodreads book --rating-dist "animal farm"
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ : 736953
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ : 768149
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ : 463984
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ : 143183
★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ : 71234

Total : 2183503

$ goodreads author --books orwell
1984
Animal Farm
Animal Farm / 1984
Down and Out in Paris and London
Homage to Catalonia
Burmese Days
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
The Road to Wigan Pier
Coming Up for Air
Shooting an Elephant

$ goodreads user --shelf currently-reading prakashdanish
Learn Vimscript the Hard Way
The Linux Command Line
Norwegian Wood
Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought

$ goodreads book --desc "my experiments with truth"
Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic....<snipped>

Contribution

If you would like to contribute, submit an issue and/or send a PR.

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2018 Danish Prakash

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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