Podcast Book Club

The Ezra Klein Show brings you far-reaching conversations about hard problems, big ideas, illuminating theories, and cutting-edge research.

Podcast Book Club is a command line interface that scrapes each episode for book recommendations, building a library and allowing the user to explore their bookshelf by genre, author, or keyword.

Listen to The Ezra Klein Show at Player.fm or check out other Vox Media Podcasts.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'podcast-book-club'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install podcast-book-club

Before using Podcast Book Club you must create a new Google Books application. Visit Google Books APIs for details.

Create a file config/api.rb in config/ and copy and paste the following code:

# Google Books key
def googlebooks_config
    {:api_key => <your-api-key>}
end

Type the code below and follow the prompts to explore book recommendations.

$ podcast_book_club

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/jessrezac/podcast-book-club. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Everyone interacting in the Podcast Book Club project’s codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.