Thanks for the update. --
Ibiam Chihurumnaya ib...@sugarlabs.org On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 5:15 PM James Simmons <nices...@gmail.com> wrote: > I tried updating feedparser.py with a later version that still fits in two > files. It looks like the developers made some attempt to get it working > with Python 3 but did not finish it. I spent a couple of hours with it and > it looks like it's working. I can browse OPDS feeds now. That's the good > news. > > The bad news is it looks like the OPDS feeds for Feedbooks don't exist > anymore and in a month or so Feedbooks itself won't exist. I'm looking into > alternative feeds. > > The Internet Archive feeds work. I'm thinking of getting rid of one. It is > supposed to list books in alpha order. What it actually does is list out > letters of the alphabet and there appears to be no way to drill down to see > books for that letter. Even if you could do that, the lists would be too > long to be useful. > > There are other lists I might add for Internet Archive. For example, there > is one for Kids books. > > Clicking on a book in one of these lists should make it available for > download. That isn't working now. I'll fix it. > > There is a way to list out My Books, which are books in your journal. It > looks like you can copy books from thumb drives into the Journal too. Looks > a bit like my Sugar Commander Activity. > > In any case, I think I can make this Activity worth having. > > James Simmons > > > On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 11:20 AM James Simmons <nices...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> It turns out that feedparser has a version that is new enough to support >> Python 3 but old enough to fit in two files, one of which replaces sgml.py. >> I can get rid of the current files instead of trying to make them work with >> Python 3 myself. I'm going to try this tonight. >> >> It also turns out that the Activity does use OPDS for Internet Archive, >> just not for book searches. It uses it to browse catalogs like most >> downloaded, newly added, alphabetical by title, etc. So if I got that >> working we'd have a fancier Get IA Books even if Feedbooks goes away. >> >> James Simmons >> >> On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 10:07 AM Chihurumnaya Ibiam <ib...@sugarlabs.org> >> wrote: >> >>> Agreed, activities depending on external APIs are difficult to maintain >>> and if anyone is willing to do it >>> then it can work. >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Ibiam Chihurumnaya >>> ib...@sugarlabs.org >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 6:04 AM James Cameron <qu...@laptop.org> wrote: >>> >>>> 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 >>>> >>>
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