From the Goodreads Feedback forum, Carlissa (2018):
... The best way to find a group is by word of mouth from friends ...
or Faith (ibidem):
Look at the lists of groups to which your friends or people you follow belong.
- Install the toolbox
- at the prompt, enter:
$ ./friendgroup.pl --help
$ ./friendgroup.pl [email protected]
Enter GR password for [email protected]: *****************
Signing in to Goodreads... OK
Getting list of members known to #18418712... 141 members (0.18s)
[ 0%] Aron Mellendar #21254511 0 groups 0.41s
[ 1%] Moshe Fiono #3932835 0 groups 0.80s
[ 2%] Peter Glowwa #18936366 2 groups 0.58s
[ 3%] DuyGeboad #73957929 9 groups 0.05s
[ 3%] Michael #9482539 0 groups 0.15s
[ 5%] Peter Prischl #17272051 0 groups 1.47s
[ 6%] Steven Shoffork #51011129 0 groups 0.15s
[ 7%] 2mo #32504210 12 groups 0.07s
...
[ 99%] Charlene #2442665 0 groups 2.41s
[100%] David #7634567 0 groups 0.01s
Perfect! Got groups of 141 users.
Writing results to "./list-out/friendgroup-1234567.html"... 245 groups (0.31s)
Total time: 2 minutesNote:
You can break the process with CTRL-C and continue later without having to re-read all online sources again, as reading from Goodreads.com is very time consuming. The script internally uses a file-cache which is busted after 31 days and saves to /tmp/FileCache/.
- long runtime: Goodreads slows down all requests and we have to load a lot of data
- sometimes you don't know what you can have and you wouldn't search for it, but it might show up here
If you like this project, give it a star on GitHub. Report bugs or suggestions via GitHub or see the AUTHORS.md file.
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