goodreads2libby

This is a BeautifulSoup script to scrape a GoodReads list and search all your Libby libraries for those books. It uses requests and beautifulsoup4 for GoodReads, but it has to use Selenium for Libby because it needs to run the JavaScript.

Run the following to download your to-read list to a CSV file:

python get_books.py 'https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/<your-list-id>?shelf=to-read' > want-to-read.csv

And then run this command to search Libby for those books:

cat want-to-read.csv | python search_libby.py <library-ids> > libby.out

You can get the library IDs by visiting https://libbyapp.com/, searching for your library, and checking the URL once you've clicked on the library:

https://libbyapp.com/library/<library-ID>

For fun, show statistics:

$ cat libby.out | python results.py
Of 675 books:
 - 63 are available as ebooks,
 - 31 are available as audiobooks,
 - 109 are available as both,
 - 472 are unavailable.

dependencies

See requirements.txt. You'll need to have a browser installed for Selenium to use. The code is written to use the Firefox driver but it can conceivably use other browsers.