π 2015-Jul-03 ⬩ βοΈ Ashwin Nanjappa ⬩ π·οΈ anobii, book, csv, export, goodreads, import ⬩ π Archive
Anobii is a fairly popular book community, that sadly is losing out to Goodreads. When most of your bookworm friends are on Goodreads, you might want to move your book shelf, ratings, reviews and other info to Goodreads. This is fairly easy to achieve.
Login to Anobii. Go to Settings -> Export Data. Select the format as CSV and Submit.
You will receive an email in a few minutes with a CSV file attached. Download this file and rename it as anobii.csv
.
$ git clone https://github.com/tijs/Anobii2Goodreads
Place the anobii.csv
in the directory containing the anobii-to-goodreads.py
script.
Perform the conversion, the output is written to import_to_goodreads.csv
file:
$ python anobii-to-goodreads.py
Login to Goodreads. Go to its import page and import the import_to_goodreads.csv
file.
Refresh this page to see the import progress. I found that a few books from India, which had ISBN, could not be imported.
Go to your own update stream, you should be able to see all the imports. Do not worry, Goodreads only shows a few of these updates on your friendsβ stream. I also found that the book status (unfinished or reading) was not entered correctly. This I had to batch edit to fix them.
Tried with: Python 2.7.6 and Ubuntu 14.04