From 965205adae16b95e91f9c123ad1116e68d3a8d4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Las Zenow Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 18:48:23 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Document the different ways to access the library --- templates/help.html | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/templates/help.html b/templates/help.html index 3400d9d..a80b67c 100644 --- a/templates/help.html +++ b/templates/help.html @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ {{template "header.html" .S}}

Advanced Search

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It is possible to search for books in an specific language adding lang:code to the search string. See for example some searches: +

It is possible to search books in an specific language adding lang:code to the search string. See for example some searches:

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Other ways to access the library

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OPDS
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The Imperial Library of Trantor has support for OPDS, witch allows you to browse and download books from any ebook reading software that supports OPDS. To use it just add the following url as your catalog address in your device: +

{{.S.BaseURL}}/?fmt=opds
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In android devices works fine with fbreader configuring orbot to transparently proxy it's internet connection over tor.

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RSS
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With RSS you can use your feed reader to see the lattest updates on a certain search or the news of the library. To get the RSS url of some search just click on the .

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hummin
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For the command line geeks there is a cli client: hummin

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To install it in a debian based system (like ubuntu) just do: +

+$ sudo apt-get install golang
+$ sudo go get github.com/trantor-library/hummin
+$ hummin
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JSON
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There is a JSON API for the library, with it you can write bots and other cool things like hummin.

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You can add ?fmt=json to almost any page on trantor and you'll get a json of the contents of the page. I'll love to hear if you do something cool with it, please tell me by email.

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