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A place to keep track of issues and TODOs for http://overreader.com
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support for Goodreads shelves/lists #44

Open brianpipa opened 9 months ago

brianpipa commented 9 months ago

Can you make it compatible with preexisting lists/shelves made by Goodreads itself? https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/man-booker-prize-winners https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/13-booker-prize

Also There are also groups that create shelves as well:

https://www.goodreads.com/group/bookshelf/474371-hugo-nebula-awards-best-novels

brianpipa commented 7 months ago

UGH. So, of those 3 types of lists above, only one has an RSS feed, which is what the code uses now. I figured it would be easy to change the code slightly to add the group shelves. WRONG. Goodreads, for some reason, uses a different format for the RSS from groups, which means i can't reuse the parsing code. it's doable, just not as easy as I had hoped.

The other 2 types don't use RSS but it wouldn't be hard to parse the books out of the page.

Putting this on hold for now.