README.md

@@ -18,3 +18,14 @@ It will allow you to do stuff like:
 - find the largest pdfs in the collection: `csvcut -c title_sort,formats,size books.csv | csvgrep -c formats -m pdf | csvsort -c size -r | head`
 - `csvjson books.csv | jq | whatever`
 - You can also perform actual SQL queries on it, and convert the data between csv and sqlite database: <https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial/3_power_tools.html>
+
+## RSS feed
+
+An RSS feed has been kindly provided by [the Rsszard of Syndication](https://tilde.town/~lucidiot)
+and is available at https://AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
+
+Generating the feed requires you to have Python 3.7 or later installed, as well
+as the [xmltodict](https://pypi.org/project/xmltodict) package:
+`pip3 install xmltodict`.
+
+To generate the feed, run `./geenfeed.py <books.csv >lefeed.xml`.

genfeed.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from typing import Mapping, MutableMapping
+import csv
+import sys
+import xmltodict
+
+RSS_DATE_FORMAT = '%a, %d %b %Y %T %z'
+ISO_DATE_FORMAT = '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z'
+
+
+def parse_book(book: MutableMapping[str, str]) -> Mapping:
+    item = {
+        "title": book["title_sort"],
+        "pubDate": datetime.strptime(book.pop("timestamp"), ISO_DATE_FORMAT)
+                           .strftime(RSS_DATE_FORMAT),
+        "guid": {
+            "@isPermaLink": "false",
+            "#text": book.pop("uuid"),
+        },
+        "description": book.pop("comments"),
+        # The CSV's first character is a non-breaking space for some reason,
+        # which breaks the author column
+        "author": book.get("author_sort") or book["\ufeffauthor_sort"],
+    }
+
+    # Prepend metadata to the item description
+    item["description"] = "<dl>{}</dl>{}".format(
+        "".join(
+            "<dt>{}</dt><dd>{}</dd>".format(
+                key.replace('_sort', '').replace('_', ' ').replace('\ufeff', '').capitalize(),
+                value,
+            )
+            for key, value in book.items()
+            # Ignore empty columns
+            if value
+        ),
+        item['description']
+    )
+
+    if book.get("tags"):
+        item["category"] = [
+            {
+                "@domain": "https://git.tilde.town/dozens/books",
+                "#text": tag
+            }
+            for tag in book["tags"].split(", ")
+        ]
+
+    return item
+
+
+def main():
+    sys.stdout.write(xmltodict.unparse({
+        "rss": {
+            "@version": "2.0",
+            "@xmlns:atom": "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom",
+            "@xmlns:sy": "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/",
+            "channel": {
+                "title": "dozens books",
+                "description": "the cool calibre library of dozens",
+                "link": "https://git.tilde.town/dozens/books",
+                "atom:link": {
+                    "@rel": "self",
+                    "@type": "application/rss+xml",
+                    # TODO: set the correct public URL of your feed!
+                    "@href": "http://fuck",
+                },
+                "language": "en-US",
+                "pubDate": datetime.now(timezone.utc)
+                                   .strftime(RSS_DATE_FORMAT),
+                "docs": "https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification",
+                "webMaster": "dozens@tilde.town (~dozens)",
+                "generator": "Python " + ".".join(map(str, sys.version_info[:3])),
+                # Update on the first of every month, at midnight UTC
+                "sy:updatePeriod": "monthly",
+                "sy:updateFrequency": "1",
+                "sy:updateBase": "1971-01-01T00:00+00:00",
+                # One month, roughly, for clients that do not support mod_syndication
+                "ttl": 60 * 24 * 30,
+                "item": list(map(parse_book, csv.DictReader(sys.stdin))),
+            }
+        }
+    }, pretty=True, short_empty_elements=True))
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()

requirements.txt

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+xmltodict>=0.12