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fooling around with goodreads api
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# http://www.goodreads.com/book/title.xml?author=Roberto+Bola%C3%B1o&key=Iz76TB8T47u8g4T90VKg&title=Savage+Detectives&format=json | |
body = urllib.urlencode({ 'author' : 'Karen Russel', 'title' : 'Swamplandia', 'format' : 'json' }) | |
response, content = client.request('%s/book/title.xml' % url, | |
'GET', body, headers) | |
body = urllib.urlencode({'name': 'read', 'book_id': 8584686}) | |
headers = {'content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'} | |
response, content = client.request('%s/shelf/add_to_shelf.xml' % url, | |
'POST', body, headers) | |
# Add review | |
# Add book reviews for members using OAuth. You'll need to register your app (required). | |
# URL: http://www.goodreads.com/review.xml | |
# HTTP method: POST | |
# Parameters: | |
# book_id: Goodreads book_id (required) | |
# review[review]: Text of the review (optional) | |
# review[rating]: Rating (0-5) (optional, default is 0 (No rating)) | |
# review[read_at]: Date (YYYY-MM-DD format, e.g. 2008-02-01) (optional) | |
# shelf: read|currently-reading|to-read|<USER SHELF NAME> (optional, must exist, see: shelves.list) | |
# swamplandia | |
body = urllib.urlencode({'book_id' : 8584686, 'review[rating]' : 3, 'review[read_at]' : '2012-12-15', 'shelf' : 'read' }) | |
body = urllib.urlencode({'book_id' : 8584686, 'shelf' : 'read' }) | |
response, content = client.request('%s/review.xml' % url, 'POST', body, headers) | |
body = urllib.urlencode({ 'author' : 'Karen Russel', 'title' : 'Swamplandia', 'format' : 'json' }) | |
response, content = client.request('%s/book/title.xml' % url, | |
'GET', body, headers) | |
body = urllib.urlencode({ 'author' : 'Robert Johnson', 'title' : 'She' }) | |
response, content = client.request('%s/book/title.xml' % url, 'GET', body, headers) | |
if response['status'] != '200': | |
raise Exception('Error locating book: %s' % response['status']) | |
else: | |
root = ET.fromstring(content) | |
book = root.findall('book')[0] | |
print "Found what you were looking for '%s' (ID: %s)" % (book.findall('title')[0].text, book.findall('id')[0].text) |
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