Goodreads CSV export to Markdown Converter

This utility takes the CSV export from goodreads: goodreads_library_export.csv and converts each book and each author into a separate markdown file.

Features

• It converts only a subset of the information from the CSV into MarkDown, concentrating on information entered by the user, such as rating and comment (if any).
• 'Shelves' are rendered as hashtags
• A URL to the book description on Goodreads is inserted
• Author documents are cross-linked from books and vice versa

Running it

• It expects to find the goodreads_library_export.csv file in the current directory
• It creates a subdirectory within the current directory called Goodreads Library and inserts all of the markdown documents there

Execution on Linux/Mac:

gr2md.py

Execution on other platforms

python3 gr2md.py

Import to markdown note-taking apps systems

This has been tested with Upnote and Bear Notes, using their built-in markdown import.

Examples

Author

# Leonard Susskind
#Author #Goodreads
### Books in my collection:
- [[Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory]]
- [[The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics]]
- [[Classical Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum (Theoretical Minimum 1)]]
- [[Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum (Theoretical Minimum 2)]]

Book

# Classical Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum (Theoretical Minimum 1)
#Book #Goodreads
- Written by [[Leonard Susskind]] with [[George Hrabovsky]]
- Publisher: Penguin
- [Details on Goodreads](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51221389)
- Shelves: #resting, #science