Yes, I remember some of this from when I last maintained those activities. I felt that activities that depended on external APIs become difficult to maintain. ;-)
On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 01:46:44PM -0600, James Simmons wrote: > Back in 2009 I wrote the Get IA Books activity which uses the Advanced Search > service of the Internet Archive to search their catalog and makes it possible > to download these books to the Journal and put some metadata in there as well. > > Shortly after I finished this Sayamindu Dasgupta made a similar Activity that > used OPDS to search book catalogs. Specifically he was interested in using > OPDS > to search [1]https://www.feedbooks.com, which had an OPDS server that included > public domain books. He also made it possible for the Activity user to add an > entry for his own OPDS server, but you had to edit a text file using the > Terminal activity to do it. > > I have just fixed my own Activity to work with Python 3 and wanted to try > fixing this one too. I've run into a few problems which makes me think this > Activity might not be fixable. > > 1. Feedbooks.com is going out of business very soon. It is possible that their > OPDS server is already not working: [2]https://www.feedbooks.com/catalog/ > public_domain > 2. There are other ODPS servers, but not for public domain titles: [3]http:// > opdshome.uo1.net/ > 3. The Internet Archive has an OPDS server but this Activity doesn't use it. > Instead it adapted code from my GetIABooks activity. Apparently the IA OPDS > server had issues when this was written. > 3. The Activity makes use of code from [4]http://feedparser.org/. > Unfortunately, the latest version of this cannot be contained in just one > file. > The old version depends on sgmllib.py, which was included with Python 2 but > not > with 3. Somebody found the code for this and ran it through a Python 2 to 3 > converter. I added this to the project. > 4. I managed to convert enough code in feedparser.py and sgmllib.py to get the > Activity to run without generating diagnostic messages. I have no idea if it > is > actually working. > > Thoughts? > > James Simmons > > References: > > [1] https://www.feedbooks.com/ > [2] https://www.feedbooks.com/catalog/public_domain > [3] http://opdshome.uo1.net/ > [4] http://feedparser.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
