TPL-RSS

http://github.com/gabrielmansour/tpl-rss

created by Gabriel Mansour

Provides an RSS (Atom) Feed of books checked out from the Toronto Public Library

based on the Perl script by Sacha Chua

Dependencies

This script requires:

• WWW::Mechanize -- sudo gem install mechanize
• Nokogiri versions newer than 1.2.3

Instructions

Fill in your library card number and PIN, and run the script ruby tpl-rss.rb to generate the feed and save it out to a file (by default it's saved as books.atom).

Tip: you can schedule a recurring task using cron (or Windows Task Scheduler) that will automatically refresh the feed at a set interval. For example, to update the feed on a daily basis, add the following line to your crontab:

0 0 * * * cd /path/containing/tpl-rss; ./tpl-rss.rb $LIBRARY_CARD_NUMBER $PIN $PATH_TO_OUTPUT_FILE

Then you can just add the URL for the books.atom file you've just created to your feed reader and you're all set!

Changelog

HEAD

• New Features:

  • allows loading of personal account credentials from yaml file

  • saves outputted XML to a file

  • allows you to also pass in location of output file as third command-line argument

  • now able to pass in library card number & pin as command-line arguments

  • raises an error if login credentials are incorrect

• Bugfixes:
  • improved shebang
  • fixed up generated XML to better adhere to Atom standard