goodreads.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
"""Grab the books from the current year from goodreads and emit some HTML.
"""

import requests
from xml.dom import minidom
import datetime, time
from email.utils import parsedate
import sys

goodreads_key = sys.argv[1]

# URL =
url = "https://www.goodreads.com/review/list?key={}&v=2&format=xml&id=1519786&per_page=200&shelf=read".format(goodreads_key)
timeformat = "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %X %Y"

req = requests.get(url)
if req.status_code != 200:
    print('Bad request!')
    sys.exit(1)

xmldoc = minidom.parseString(req.content)

year = datetime.datetime.now().year - 1

reviews = xmldoc.firstChild.childNodes[3]

for review in reviews.getElementsByTagName('review'):
    if review.getElementsByTagName('read_at')[0].firstChild is None:
        continue
    read_at = review.getElementsByTagName('read_at')[0].firstChild.data
    d = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(time.mktime(parsedate(read_at)))
    if d.year == year:
        title = review.getElementsByTagName('title')[0].childNodes[0].data.encode('UTF-8')
        isbn_13 = review.getElementsByTagName('isbn13')[0].firstChild
        authors = review.getElementsByTagName('authors')
        rating  = review.getElementsByTagName('rating')[0].firstChild.data.encode('UTF-8')
        if len(authors) == 1:
            author = authors[0].getElementsByTagName('name')[0].firstChild.data.encode('UTF-8')
        else:
            author = 'Multiple Authors'
        if isbn_13:
            print '<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=%s&amp;index=books&amp;linkCode=qs&amp;tag=slackorama-20">%s</a> by %s (%s stars)</li>' % (isbn_13.data.encode('UTF-8'),title, author, rating)
        else:
            print '<li>%s</li>' % title