fireshaper/tiredtechnician

A handheld library technician to add books to your LazyLibrarian server.

TiredTechnician

An easier way to add books straight to LazyLibrarian.

A Library Technician is

a skilled library and information professional trained to perform the day-to-day functions of a library, and assists librarians in the acquisition, preparation, and organization of information. They also assist library patrons in finding information.

To install

• Create a folder in the root of your webserver called TiredTechnician.
• Download all the files and unzip them into the folder.
• Edit the settings.php file with your hostname:port and API from LazyLibrarian.
• Browse to http://localhost/TiredTechnician.
• Start searching for books.

Known Issues

• If your search query is too broad it will time out. Try to use a more narrow search.

Special thanks to @philborman for both creating LazyLibrarian and his support in my project!

tiredtechnician's Issues

A few suggestions...

Looks good, I have made a few changes to the api though which might make it easier.
queueBook now returns an error if the book id is not recognised. This means the sleep() after queueBook is not needed. Also the sleep after addBook is not ideal as we are waiting for goodreads to get back to us and it could be a while. addBook doesn't put the bookID into the database until it gets the reply from goodreads so it would be safer to call addBook then poll queueBook in a loop until you get "OK". You could maybe sleep a second in the loop, maybe add a limit on how many tries?
Hope this helps :-)