NYPL Site Scraper

A mechanize driven library for getting information about your NYPL account by web scraping.

This library is an abstraction to get info from your account. If you really want to concern yourself with markup, you're better off using mechanize directly.

Examples of what it can get are your:

• Current Holds
• Fines
• Current Checkouts (not implemented yet)

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'nypl-site-scraper'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install nypl-site-scraper

Usage

client = NyplSiteScraper::Client.new(barcode: '11111111111111', pin: '2222')

client.login! # This is the network call

client.get_holds
# {"holds"=>[{"title"=>"Persepolis. English", "statusString"=>"READY FOR PICKUP", "status"=>"ready", "pickupLocation"=>"Mid-Manhattan Library at 42nd St"}...

client.get_fines
#{:fines=>[{:title=>"Zog and the flying doctors / by Julia Donaldson & illustrated by Axel Scheffler.", :fineAmount=>"$0.20"}...

client.get_checkouts
# {:checkouts => [{:title "Foo", dueDate: "Some date"}]}

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/nodanaonlyzuul/nypl-site-scraper.