Goodreads RSS parser

Goodreads provides an RSS feed for users. This library provides utility functions to use the feed.

My motivation for this was to write scripts to react to my reading habits, such as generate a Day One journal entry with a book review template whenever I finished a book. The Goodreads API is very limited and does not make this easy, but the RSS feed contains the info I needed.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

NodeJS, I suppose.

Installing

npm install goodreads-rss --save

Here is an example of a script to fetch reading progress updates (referred to by Goodreads as "UserStatus") for Goodreads user # 123 and log them to the console:

const goodreadsRss = require('goodreads-rss');
const userId = 123;

goodreadsRss.getStatusUpdates(userId)
.then((updates)=>console.log(updates));

If you install node-goodreads, a third-party library for the Goodreads API, then you can get more information about the updates like this:

const goodreadsRss = require('goodreads-rss');
const goodreads = require('node-goodreads');
const userId = 123;

const fakeSession = {};
const gr = goodreads.client({
	key: 'my-goodreads-key',
	secret: 'my-goodreads-secret'
});

goodreadsRss.getStatusUpdates(userId)
.then((updates)=>{
  updates.forEach((update)=>{
    gr.getUserStatus(update.guid.text.split('UserStatus')[1]);
  });
});

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning.

Authors

• Kyle Goetz - Initial work - KyleGoetz;

License

This project is licensed under the ISC license.

Changelog

1.1.1 - There was a typo-caused major bug from 1.1 in a util function that would not return the right value. REALLY need to implement some unit tests to avoid this type of regression.

To do

• Unit tests