This is a set of two scripts that will let you create a catalogue of your Booth library.
- The Booth Cataloguer Extract will convert a set of saved web pages into a JSON and CSV file that can be parsed easily.
- The Application will serve a web page with a searchable index of the items in the library, using the JSON.
You'll need to download your library webpages so it can parse them, and then run the extractor. After that, you can generate the catalogue.
To run the script, you'll need pandas, json, and BeautifulSoup.
- Save each page of your Booth library to a folder.
- Update folder_path in the extractor script to point to your folder.
- Run the script.
Easy! In the future this process can probably be automated.
The easiest way to do things is to generate a static copy. To generate the website, you'll need Flask.
- Use the extractor to save your library details to a JSON file.
- Update generate_catalogue.py with the location of your library's JSON file.
- Run!
- Move output.html to the folder with your saved library. This will allow it to load the saved thumbnail images.
Running the website live is useful for debugging. To start the website, you'll need Flask. The live version expects a file structure like so; run_catalogue.py on the root directory, and your downloaded pages in a subfolder with the same name as your JSON.
- Use the extractor to save your library details to a JSON file.
- Update run_catalogue.py with the location of your library's JSON file.
- Run the script.
- Automatically downloading the library would be useful.
- It might be cool to do more with the library page.
- The CSV isn't used for anything.
MIT license.