In the absesnce of an official api, could somone please help me write a python / bash script to submit reading updates?

[ahcheing]

I have been banging my head against the wall off and on for months trying to figure out how to write a script that reads from the sqlite database where my reading data is stored (thanks koreader!) and then push that data to bookwyrm as status updates on what page I am up to. I can read and access all the data i want to see from my family using bookwyrm thanks to the rss feeds, but I almost never post myself unless I go out of my way to use a work computer in a way its not supposed to be used.

I am not a programmer, but this is the first time in a very long time I have not been able to use https://curlconverter.com/ to automate some basic website stuffs with a python script and i am very confused. I dont know why the python it spits out never actually works and I dont know enough about python to be able to figure it out.

after a lot of trial and error I was able to get a bash script working at one point, but it no longer does for reasons I dont understand (i dont expect people to parse this its a huge friggen mess, but at one point believe it or not it actually did work. but after i put it down for a week and came back to replace the hard coded variables with data from the sqlite database it stopped working and I really dont know why. )

rm c0.tmp c1.tmp c2.tmp c3.tmp c4.tmp

TOKz=$(curl -c c1.tmp -k 'https://readz.local/'| grep csrf_token | sed "s/.*\ '//" | sed "s/'.*//")

curl -b c1.tmp -c c1.tmp -k 'https://readz.local/login?next=/' -X POST --data-raw "csrfmiddlewaretoken=$token&localname=USARNAM&password=PASSWARD"

echo 'Step 2'

TOKz=$(curl -b c1.tmp -c c1.tmp -k 'https://readz.local/' | grep csrf_token | sed "s/.*\ '//" | sed "s/'.*//")

start_date="2025-01-19"
progress="668"
progress_mode="PG"
poststatus="on"
user="1"
mention_books="2"
book="2"
content="2025-04-01 updatfromcurl" 
privacy="public"

bigdumbstrng="$'-----------------------------139414719914123631101350774383\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"csrfmiddlewaretoken\"\r\n\r\n$TOKz\r\n-----------------------------139414719914123631101350774383\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"id\"\r\n\r\n$id\r\n-----------------------------139414719914123631101350774383\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"start_date\"\r\n\r\n$start_date\r\n-----------------------------139414719914123631101350774383\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"progress\"\r\n\r\n$progress\r\n-----------------------------139414719914123631101350774383\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"progress_mode\"\r\n\r\n$progress_mode\r\n-----------------------------139414719914123631101350774383\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"post-status\"\r\n\r\n\"$poststatus\"\r\n-----------------------------139414719914123631101350774383\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"csrfmiddlewaretoken\"\r\n\r\n$TOKz\r\n-----------------------------139414719914123631101350774383\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"user\"\r\n\r\n1\r\n-----------------------------139414719914123631101350774383\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"mention_books\"\r\n\r\n$mention_books\r\n-----------------------------139414719914123631101350774383\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"book\"\r\n\r\n$book\r\n-----------------------------139414719914123631101350774383\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"content\"\r\n\r\n$content\r\n-----------------------------139414719914123631101350774383\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"content_warning\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----------------------------139414719914123631101350774383\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"privacy\"\r\n\r\n$privacy\r\n-----------------------------139414719914123631101350774383--\r\n'"

echo "curl -b c1.tmp -c c1.tmp -k 'https://readz.local/reading-status/update/$BookId' -X POST -H 'Accept: application/json' -H 'Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5' -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br, zstd' -H 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------139414719914123631101350774383' -H 'Sec-Fetch-Dest: empty' -H 'Sec-Fetch-Mode: cors' -H 'Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin' -H 'TE: trailers' --data-binary $bigdumbstrng" > tmpcrl.sh

./tmpcrl.sh

Yes the bash script worked by echoing that curl command to a new script and running it. it 2was the only way I could figure out how to make it work. again, not a programmer. I just want to automaticially sync my reading progress and am willing to keep plugging away at this if it means I dont have to boot up my work computer and see all my work notifications just to update my family of my reading progress.

It would be really helpful if anyone had a simple bash python script I could iterate off of.