kentaro-m/book-box

book-box

🔖Do you reading books recently?
📚Update a pinned gist to contain the status of reading books from Google Books.

📌✨ For more pinned-gist projects like this one, check out: https://github.com/matchai/awesome-pinned-gists

Setup

book-box is a GitHub Action that is designed to work using the schedule event.

Prepare work

1. Create a new public GitHub Gist (https://gist.github.com/)
2. Create a token with the gist scope and copy it. (https://github.com/settings/tokens/new)
3. Login with the Google Books (https://books.google.co.jp/books)
4. In my library page, retrieve the user ID which contains uid URL parameter: https://books.google.com/books?uid=11122233344455566778&source=gbs_lp_bookshelf_list

Project setup

1. Fork this repo

2. Edit the environment variable in .github/workflows/schedule.yml:

   • GIST_ID: The ID portion from your gist url: https://gist.github.com/kentaro-m/7943c292ae2caec7b4198319d1446b90.

3. Go to the repo Settings > Secrets

4. Add the following environment variables:

   • GH_TOKEN: The GitHub token generated above.
   • USER_ID: The user ID for your Google Books account.

Licence

MIT