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"'Correct token'"
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"source": [
"import datetime\n",
"import requests\n",
"import os\n",
"TOKEN=os.environ[\"READWISE\"]\n",
"\n",
"response = requests.get(\n",
" url=\"https://readwise.io/api/v2/auth/\",\n",
" headers={\"Authorization\": f\"Token {TOKEN}\"},\n",
")\n",
"\n",
"\"Correct token\" if response.status_code == 204 else \"Incorrect token\""
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"{'count': 7,\n",
" 'next': None,\n",
" 'previous': None,\n",
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" 'title': 'Douglas R. Hofstadter - Gödel, Escher, Bach_ an Eternal Golden Braid-Basic Books',\n",
" 'author': '1994',\n",
" 'category': 'books',\n",
" 'num_highlights': 6,\n",
" 'last_highlight_at': '2020-09-14T13:09:37Z',\n",
" 'updated': '2020-09-14T18:05:29.023564Z',\n",
" 'cover_image_url': 'https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/default-book-icon-2.dae1dc4d332b.png',\n",
" 'highlights_url': 'https://readwise.io/bookreview/4625724'},\n",
" {'id': 4625723,\n",
" 'title': 'Matt Ridley',\n",
" 'author': 'The Red Queen',\n",
" 'category': 'books',\n",
" 'num_highlights': 45,\n",
" 'last_highlight_at': '2020-09-09T12:06:28Z',\n",
" 'updated': '2020-09-14T18:05:28.968661Z',\n",
" 'cover_image_url': 'https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/default-book-icon-0.c6917d331b03.png',\n",
" 'highlights_url': 'https://readwise.io/bookreview/4625723'},\n",
" {'id': 4625722,\n",
" 'title': 'Frederick P. Brooks - The Design of Design_ Essays From a Computer Scientist-Addison-Wesley Professional',\n",
" 'author': '2010',\n",
" 'category': 'books',\n",
" 'num_highlights': 2,\n",
" 'last_highlight_at': '2020-05-18T18:32:19Z',\n",
" 'updated': '2020-09-14T18:05:28.914585Z',\n",
" 'cover_image_url': 'https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/default-book-icon-0.c6917d331b03.png',\n",
" 'highlights_url': 'https://readwise.io/bookreview/4625722'},\n",
" {'id': 4625721,\n",
" 'title': 'Seneca - Letters From a Stoic',\n",
" 'author': 'Penguin, 1969',\n",
" 'category': 'books',\n",
" 'num_highlights': 29,\n",
" 'last_highlight_at': '2020-06-11T12:51:54Z',\n",
" 'updated': '2020-09-14T18:05:28.851049Z',\n",
" 'cover_image_url': 'https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/default-book-icon-2.dae1dc4d332b.png',\n",
" 'highlights_url': 'https://readwise.io/bookreview/4625721'},\n",
" {'id': 4625720,\n",
" 'title': 'Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene',\n",
" 'author': '2006, Oxford University Press, USA',\n",
" 'category': 'books',\n",
" 'num_highlights': 22,\n",
" 'last_highlight_at': '2020-06-01T13:28:16Z',\n",
" 'updated': '2020-09-14T18:05:28.797098Z',\n",
" 'cover_image_url': 'https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/default-book-icon-0.c6917d331b03.png',\n",
" 'highlights_url': 'https://readwise.io/bookreview/4625720'},\n",
" {'id': 4625719,\n",
" 'title': 'Martin Kleppmann Designing Data-Intensive Applications',\n",
" 'author': '2017',\n",
" 'category': 'books',\n",
" 'num_highlights': 12,\n",
" 'last_highlight_at': '2020-05-13T20:11:00Z',\n",
" 'updated': '2020-09-14T18:05:28.737718Z',\n",
" 'cover_image_url': 'https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/default-book-icon-4.11327a2af05a.png',\n",
" 'highlights_url': 'https://readwise.io/bookreview/4625719'},\n",
" {'id': 4625718,\n",
" 'title': 'Thus Spake Zarathustra',\n",
" 'author': 'Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche',\n",
" 'category': 'books',\n",
" 'num_highlights': 17,\n",
" 'last_highlight_at': '2020-05-13T12:00:17Z',\n",
" 'updated': '2020-09-14T18:05:28.683424Z',\n",
" 'cover_image_url': 'https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/default-book-icon-9.63dbe834380e.png',\n",
" 'highlights_url': 'https://readwise.io/bookreview/4625718'}]}"
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"# getting books that were updated last week\n",
"\n",
"delay = datetime.datetime.now() - datetime.timedelta(days=100)\n",
"\n",
"querystring = {\n",
" \"category\": \"books\",\n",
" \"updated__gt\": delay.strftime(\"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ\"),\n",
"}\n",
"\n",
"response = requests.get(\n",
" url=\"https://readwise.io/api/v2/books/\",\n",
" headers={\"Authorization\": f\"Token {TOKEN}\"},\n",
" params=querystring\n",
")\n",
"\n",
"data = response.json()\n",
"data"
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" 'next': None,\n",
" 'previous': None,\n",
" 'results': [{'id': 86575414,\n",
" 'text': '“He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.”—ZARATHUSTRA,',\n",
" 'note': '',\n",
" 'location': 2121,\n",
" 'location_type': 'location',\n",
" 'highlighted_at': '2020-05-13T12:00:17Z',\n",
" 'url': None,\n",
" 'color': '',\n",
" 'updated': '2020-09-14T18:05:22.727179Z',\n",
" 'book_id': 4625718},\n",
" {'id': 86575392,\n",
" 'text': 'Where is innocence? Where there is will to procreation. And he who seeketh to create beyond himself, hath for me the purest will.',\n",
" 'note': '',\n",
" 'location': 1777,\n",
" 'location_type': 'location',\n",
" 'highlighted_at': '2020-04-27T02:23:44Z',\n",
" 'url': None,\n",
" 'color': '',\n",
" 'updated': '2020-09-14T18:05:21.609578Z',\n",
" 'book_id': 4625718},\n",
" {'id': 86575391,\n",
" 'text': 'Whatever cannot obey itself, is commanded. Such is the nature of living things.',\n",
" 'note': '',\n",
" 'location': 1661,\n",
" 'location_type': 'location',\n",
" 'highlighted_at': '2020-04-25T11:31:31Z',\n",
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" 'updated': '2020-09-14T18:05:21.563194Z',\n",
" 'book_id': 4625718},\n",
" {'id': 86575390,\n",
" 'text': 'It is more, verily, when out of one’s own burning cometh one’s own teaching!',\n",
" 'note': '',\n",
" 'location': 1375,\n",
" 'location_type': 'location',\n",
" 'highlighted_at': '2020-04-24T11:41:19Z',\n",
" 'url': None,\n",
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" 'updated': '2020-09-14T18:05:21.518103Z',\n",
" 'book_id': 4625718},\n",
" {'id': 86575388,\n",
" 'text': 'The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.',\n",
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" 'location_type': 'location',\n",
" 'highlighted_at': '2020-04-21T12:07:26Z',\n",
" 'url': None,\n",
" 'color': '',\n",
" 'updated': '2020-09-14T18:05:21.421995Z',\n",
" 'book_id': 4625718},\n",
" {'id': 86575387,\n",
" 'text': 'When, however, ye have an enemy, then return him not good for evil: for that would abash him. But prove that he hath done something good to you.',\n",
" 'note': '',\n",
" 'location': 1093,\n",
" 'location_type': 'location',\n",
" 'highlighted_at': '2020-04-21T03:11:31Z',\n",
" 'url': None,\n",
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" 'updated': '2020-09-14T18:05:21.377724Z',\n",
" 'book_id': 4625718},\n",
" {'id': 86575386,\n",
" 'text': 'Two different things wanteth the true man: danger and diversion. Therefore wanteth he woman, as the most dangerous plaything.',\n",
" 'note': '',\n",
" 'location': 1065,\n",
" 'location_type': 'location',\n",
" 'highlighted_at': '2020-04-21T03:05:18Z',\n",
" 'url': None,\n",
" 'color': '',\n",
" 'updated': '2020-09-14T18:05:21.332871Z',\n",
" 'book_id': 4625718},\n",
" {'id': 86575385,\n",
" 'text': 'Everything in woman is a riddle, and everything in woman hath one solution—it is called pregnancy.',\n",
" 'note': '',\n",
" 'location': 1064,\n",
" 'location_type': 'location',\n",
" 'highlighted_at': '2020-04-21T03:04:52Z',\n",
" 'url': None,\n",
" 'color': '',\n",
" 'updated': '2020-09-14T18:05:21.288548Z',\n",
" 'book_id': 4625718},\n",
" {'id': 86575384,\n",
" 'text': '“He who seeketh may easily get lost himself. All isolation is wrong”: so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.',\n",
" 'note': '',\n",
" 'location': 1021,\n",
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" 'book_id': 4625718},\n",
" {'id': 86575383,\n",
" 'text': 'There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation.',\n",
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" 'highlighted_at': '2020-04-19T12:44:26Z',\n",
" 'url': None,\n",
" 'color': '',\n",
" 'updated': '2020-09-14T18:05:21.194155Z',\n",
" 'book_id': 4625718},\n",
" {'id': 86575375,\n",
" 'text': 'What is heavy? so asketh the load-bearing spirit; then kneeleth it down like the',\n",
" 'note': '',\n",
" 'location': 545,\n",
" 'location_type': 'location',\n",
" 'highlighted_at': '2020-04-16T12:27:01Z',\n",
" 'url': None,\n",
" 'color': '',\n",
" 'updated': '2020-09-14T18:05:20.709336Z',\n",
" 'book_id': 4625718},\n",
" {'id': 86575374,\n",
" 'text': 'how the spirit becometh a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child.',\n",
" 'note': '',\n",
" 'location': 543,\n",
" 'location_type': 'location',\n",
" 'highlighted_at': '2020-04-16T12:26:27Z',\n",
" 'url': None,\n",
" 'color': '',\n",
" 'updated': '2020-09-14T18:05:20.658766Z',\n",
" 'book_id': 4625718},\n",
" {'id': 86575372,\n",
" 'text': 'one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.',\n",
" 'note': 'P',\n",
" 'location': 439,\n",
" 'location_type': 'location',\n",
" 'highlighted_at': '2020-04-16T12:06:22Z',\n",
" 'url': None,\n",
" 'color': '',\n",
" 'updated': '2020-09-14T18:05:27.873428Z',\n",
" 'book_id': 4625718},\n",
" {'id': 86575371,\n",
" 'text': 'Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman—a rope over an abyss.',\n",
" 'note': 'I',\n",
" 'location': 408,\n",
" 'location_type': 'location',\n",
" 'highlighted_at': '2020-04-15T12:27:05Z',\n",
" 'url': None,\n",
" 'color': '',\n",
" 'updated': '2020-09-14T18:05:27.749459Z',\n",
" 'book_id': 4625718},\n",
" {'id': 86575370,\n",
" 'text': 'Altered is Zarathustra; a child hath Zarathustra become; an awakened one is Zarathustra: what wilt thou do in the land of the sleepers?',\n",
" 'note': 'O',\n",
" 'location': 360,\n",
" 'location_type': 'location',\n",
" 'highlighted_at': '2020-04-15T12:05:00Z',\n",
" 'url': None,\n",
" 'color': '',\n",
" 'updated': '2020-09-14T18:05:27.626765Z',\n",
" 'book_id': 4625718},\n",
" {'id': 86575369,\n",
" 'text': '“The Greeks are interesting and extremely important because they reared such a vast number of great individuals.',\n",
" 'note': '',\n",
" 'location': 162,\n",
" 'location_type': 'location',\n",
" 'highlighted_at': '2020-04-14T12:43:31Z',\n",
" 'url': None,\n",
" 'color': '',\n",
" 'updated': '2020-09-14T18:05:20.409994Z',\n",
" 'book_id': 4625718},\n",
" {'id': 86575368,\n",
" 'text': '“How can one praise and glorify a nation as a whole?—Even among the Greeks, it was the INDIVIDUALS that counted.”',\n",
" 'note': 'G',\n",
" 'location': 161,\n",
" 'location_type': 'location',\n",
" 'highlighted_at': '2020-04-14T12:40:16Z',\n",
" 'url': None,\n",
" 'color': '',\n",
" 'updated': '2020-09-14T18:05:27.505902Z',\n",
" 'book_id': 4625718}]}"
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"source": [
"# getting highlights from a particular book\n",
"# made after February 1st, 2020, 21:35:53 UTC\n",
"querystring = {\n",
" \"book_id\": 4625718,\n",
" \"highlighted_at__gt\": \"2020-02-01T21:35:53Z\",\n",
"}\n",
"\n",
"response = requests.get(\n",
" url=\"https://readwise.io/api/v2/highlights/\",\n",
" headers={\"Authorization\": f\"Token {TOKEN}\"},\n",
" params=querystring\n",
")\n",
"\n",
"data = response.json()\n",
"data"
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