An easy way to screen scrape GoodReads recommendation's because there isn't an API.

Goodreads.rb

  # An easy way to get the recommendations from goodreads because there isn't an API to get the information

  require 'mechanize'
  require 'yaml'
  require 'goodreads'

  keys = YAML.load_file ENV['HOME']+'/.goodreads'
  client = Goodreads::Client.new(:api_key => keys["developer_key"], :api_secret => keys["developer_secret"])
  agent = Mechanize.new
  page = agent.get 'http://www.goodreads.com/recommendations/'
  form = page.form('sign_in')
  form['user[email]'] = keys["user_name"]
  form['user[password]'] = keys["password"]
  agent.submit(form)
  temp_jar = agent.cookie_jar
  @agent = Mechanize.new
  @agent.cookie_jar = temp_jar

  page = @agent.get 'http://www.goodreads.com/recommendations/shelf/children-books?recs_current_view=list'
  page.links_with(:dom_class => 'readable').each do |item|
      book_id = item.href.to_s.split('/').last.split(/[.-]/).first
      data =  client.book book_id
      book_info = data.title + ',' + data.isbn
      pp book_info
  end