array( 'author_url' => array( 'name' => 'Link to author\'s page on Goodreads', 'type' => 'text', 'required' => true, 'title' => 'Should look somewhat like goodreads.com/author/show/', 'pattern' => '^(https:\/\/)?(www.)?goodreads\.com\/author\/show\/\d+\..*$', 'exampleValue' => 'https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/38550.Brandon_Sanderson' ), 'published_only' => array( 'name' => 'Show published books only', 'type' => 'checkbox', 'required' => false, 'title' => 'If left unchecked, this will return unpublished books as well', 'defaultValue' => 'checked', ), ), ); private function collectAuthorBooks($url) { $regex = '/goodreads\.com\/author\/show\/(\d+)/'; preg_match($regex, $url, $matches); $authorId = $matches[1]; $authorListUrl = "https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/$authorId?sort=original_publication_year"; $html = getSimpleHTMLDOMCached($authorListUrl, self::CACHE_TIMEOUT); foreach($html->find('tr[itemtype="http://schema.org/Book"]') as $row) { $dateSpan = $row->find('.uitext', 0)->plaintext; $date = null; // If book is not yet published, ignore for now if(preg_match('/published\s+(\d{4})/', $dateSpan, $matches) === 1) { // Goodreads doesn't give us exact publication date here, only a year // We are skipping future dates anyway, so this is def published // but we can't pick a dynamic date either to keep clients from getting // confused. So we pick a guaranteed date of 1st-Jan instead. $date = $matches[1] . '-01-01'; } else if ($this->getInput('published_only') !== 'checked') { // We can return unpublished books as well $date = date('Y-01-01'); } else { continue; } $row = defaultLinkTo($row, $this->getURI()); $item['title'] = $row->find('.bookTitle', 0)->plaintext; $item['uri'] = $row->find('.bookTitle', 0)->getAttribute('href'); $item['author'] = $row->find('.authorName', 0)->plaintext; $item['content'] = ''; $item['timestamp'] = $date; $item['enclosures'] = array( $row->find('.bookCover', 0)->getAttribute('src') ); $this->items[] = $item; // Add item to the list } } public function collectData() { switch ($this->queriedContext) { case self::CONTEXT_AUTHOR_BOOKS: $this->collectAuthorBooks($this->getInput('author_url')); break; default: throw new Exception('Invalid context', 1); break; } } }