[FEATURE_REQUEST] Fediverse bookwyrm Integration

[thrillfall]

https://joinbookwyrm.com/
is your library connected to the library of other through fediverse. You can track your readings, your want to read, have read, reading challenges. You can follow others in their reading.

It is like goodreads but without evilcorp owning and monetizing your data and behavior.

How could this look like?
Your activity in the app could be synced to your bookwyrm account. The app could show what your bookwyrm instance notifies you about.

[thrillfall]

Bookwyrm is not exposing an api yet (besides activityPub)

[x64x2]

Impressive idea

[seniorm0ment]

I would be highly interested in this if/when possible

[mateusz-bak]

Would be something interesting but as mentioned before Bookwyrm unfortunately does not expose any public API.

If this changes let me know.

[Bout2GitIt]

I may have a temporary workaround:

BookWyrm supports exporting the user's reading list as a .CSV.

Is there any way to convert that CSV into a OpenRead .backup file, and then restore from that?

It's not the easiest solution, but at least it will let me sync the two apps for now.

[mateusz-bak]

@Bout2GitIt Openreads will support csv import since 2.3 version. You can send me your csv from BookWyrm to the emal that's mentioned in Openreads setting so I can make sure it works.

[mateusz-bak]

With slight delay BookWyrm CSV import is implemented (in 2.4.0) version.

Although all the books are set as finished ones because there is no information about book's status in the CSV.

[pabloscloud]

That's not what was asked. It was asked for "synced" integration not just import, export. I respect your efforts and it's definitely a step in the right direction, but that's not the issue.

I also see why this isn't currently possible as there is no API yet, but that still doesn't solve the issue. I'd just leave it open :)

[mateusz-bak]

@pabloscloud I wanna be honest and don't want to keep anyone's hopes up as I really don't see myself implementing this in the nearest future. It's just a simple offline books tracker after all.

For syncing with BookWyrm I suggest you try an app specifically for it, for example: https://github.com/PrivacyDragon/Bookwyrm_Android

[pabloscloud]

I really don't see myself implementing this in the nearest future.

That's totally up to you.

This issue is not fixed by implementing csv. A better approach might have been to open another issue regarding csv import and close this one upon doing it as "Won't fix" as label and it'd be clear that it's not going to happen soon but there's a workaround.

I hope that makes sense.

For syncing with BookWyrm I suggest you try an app specifically for it, for example: https://github.com/PrivacyDragon/Bookwyrm_Android

It's not syncing anything to the phone. It's just a PWA basically.