philippbayer / goodreads_to_tumblr

A script that parses your exported Goodreads reviews and uploads them to Tumblr's posting queue

Upload posts from Goodreads to Tumblr (UploadPosts.py)

UploadPosts.py has a few hardcoded variables in it which you can set your own tumblr's stuff. The script parses the same data the analysis below uses - go here and press "Export your library" to get your own csv.

Dependencies

pytumblr
pandas

Should be just

sudo pip install pytumblr pandas

What it does

This script will upload the 30 last reviews it gets from the Goodreads API and puts them on the tumblr 'queue' - by default tumblr posts two posts per day from the queue. It also cleans up a few things - Goodreads specific links in the review text, unicode author and book titles, etc.

It will print something like:

INFO:root:Uploading post for Die Ausgewanderten
INFO:root:Uploading post for Slimer
INFO:root:Uploading post for Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
INFO:root:Uploading post for Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
INFO:root:Uploading post for King Lear
INFO:root:Uploading post for Hamlet

And then you have 30 posts in your queue.

To set it up go to https://www.tumblr.com/settings/apps and create an app, or copy OAuth Consumer Key and OAuth Consumer Secret. Then go to https://api.tumblr.com/console/calls/user/info and enter those to receive TOKEN and TOKEN_SECRET, and enter those in the script.

After that it's just a matter of running the script:

python UploadPosts.py goodreads_export.csv CREDENTIALS --blogname potatoHero

It does not support Python 3 since the pytumblr library works only under Python 2.