CPPN Bookshelf Generator

Usage

1. Clone and install

git clone https://github.com/silky/cppn-bookshelf.git
cd cppn-bookshelf
# Make some kind of environment ...
pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Run grab-books.py with your (or someone elses!) goodreads id. You can find that by clicking My Books and copying the number out of the url. Here's what mine looks like: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/30456689, so my ID is 30456689.

./grab-books.py --goodreads_id ...

By default it looks at your read shelf, you can select a different shelf with --shelf to-read, for example.

You will probably want to change the --count parameter to be the number of books you have on the shelf. By default, it only does this for 10 books.

3. Run compute-cppns

./compute-cppns.py

(Note: This step might take a while, depending on how many books you have, as it's the part that computes the cool-looking spine image, from the cover image. It takes about 30 seconds per book, on my laptop.)

4. Run make-page

./make-page.py

5. Open the index.html in the output/ folder!

You can change the look and feel of the html by investingating make-page.py.

Enjoy!