reads-good

A CLI tool which takes a goodreads listopia public list url: (e.g. goodreads.com/list/show/264.Books_That_Everyone_Should_Read_At_Least_Once) and exports the below properties of each book into a csv file.

pub struct Book {
    pub title: Option<String>,
    pub author: Option<String>,
    pub rating: Option<String>,
    pub original_publish_date: Option<String>,
    pub number_of_pages: Option<String>,
    pub number_of_ratings: Option<String>,
    pub number_of_reviews: Option<String>,
    pub genres: Vec<String>,
}

Behaviour:

• Input the url to the listopia list
• Input a desired filename, e.g. books.csv
• Input desired number of pages you would like to export (number between 1 - 10)

Some books for whatever reason may fail to parse some of the selectors (e.g. title/author/page_count), in this case, these books will be ignored from the CSV generation. As such, if you asked for 3 pages, and see 298 rows in your csv file, thats the reason why.

Sometimes when I run the CLI, it will get to a given page and then silently fail with no warnings, I don't really know why. If that happens, usually restarting is enough to get it working. If you can tell why, feel free to submit a PR.

To run:

• git clone
• cargo build --release
• cd into reads-good/target/release/ and run ./reads-good or double click executable
• Note: the csv file will be outputted within the directory of reads-good/target/release/

csv example: