Bookworm for Goodreads

Bookworm is a Craft CMS plugin to provide lists of books from your Goodreads shelves.

Pull lists of books directly into your Craft templates.

Features:

• Any shelf name available (not just your read books)
• User defined limit to books fetched
• User defined sort order (date_read, date_added, etc)
• Provides lots of book data -- Title -- Author name -- Cover image -- Book description -- Book URL -- User rating

Installation

To install Bookworm, copy the bookworm/ folder into craft/plugins/, then goto Settings > Plugins and click Install.

You will then need to enter your Goodreads User ID. This can be found in the address bar when viewing your Goodreads shelves. It's the seven digit number listed after /list/

E.g.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/ 1234567 ?shelf=read

Usage

In your template add the following line to pull a list from Bookworm. This will try to get the last 10 books from your read shelf, sorted by the date read.

{% set books = craft.bookworm.fetch() %}

You can also define optional parameters to change the results you get back.

{% set books = craft.bookworm.fetch({'shelf': 'to-read','limit': 200,'sortBy': 'date_read'}) %}

shelf

Used: 'shelf': 'to-read'

This can be any public shelf in your Goodreads profile

Default shelves are:

• read
• currently-reading
• to-read

limit

Used: 'limit': 100

This is the number of books to fetch.

Please note, there seems to be a limit of 200 books that can be retrieved from the Goodreads feeds.

sortBy

Used: 'sortBy': 'date_read'

Options include:

• author
• date_read
• date_added
• date_started
• read_count
• title
• rating

order

Used: 'order': 'asc'

Books that have been retrieved are in descending order by default. You can reverse the order using this parameter.

Please note: Unfortunately Goodreads will not provide the feed in an ascending order. So we can only reorder the results once we have them.

This means for example that if you have more than 200 books in a shelf, sort by title, and order ascending, you may miss books at the beginning of the alphabet.

Changelog

1.0.4

• Added composer and releases files

1.0.3

• Fixed markup error in settings page
• Updated README

1.0.2

• Added order parameter (you can now order your results in ascending order)
• Updated README

1.0.1

• API key is now optional
• Updated README to be a little more detailed

1.0

• Plugin pushed to Github. This is the first public version of Bookworm to be released