bookoutlet

Find out what books are available at your local library or discount book store.

Supported sources

• Goodreads book lists (eg. memoirs)
• Radical reads (eg. Jon Hamm's favorite books)
• Favobooks (eg. Larry Page's favorite books)
• Patrick Collison's bookshelf

Supported stores/libraries

• Book Outlet
• Ottawa Public Library
• Toronto Public Library

How to use

Set-up (Python >= 3.6)

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage:

usage: main.py [-h] --url URL --source SOURCE --store STORE [--file FILE]

Search for books on bookoutlet

optional arguments:
  -h, --help       show this help message and exit
  --url URL        URL of bookshelf
  --source SOURCE  Name of source for book list ("collison", "goodreads", "radicalreads", "favobooks")
  --store STORE    Name of store ("bookoutlet", "opl", "tpl")
  --file FILE      Name of the results file

The program will parse the book titles from the input URL and source, search for them on the specified store, and write the results to a file.

Example:

python bookoutlet/main.py --url https://www.goodreads.com/genres/memoir --source goodreads --store bookoutlet --file gr_memoir.txt