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Perplexingly Book-Learned Emacs
As I was whining yesterday, it’s perplexingly difficult to find a (semi-)programmatic way of determining whether an author has written a new book. Or even manually in some cases. The best adv…
I’ve gotta give it to Perplexity — signing up for the API, adding some money and getting it to spew some data at me was totally painless. I created a little library called perplexity.el(and put it on Microsoft Github), but it’s totally trivial: It just does a url-retrieve request with some headers set, and you get JSON back. I’ve added convenient commands to the search buffer to go to bookshop.org so that I can shop, as well as Goodreads to check whether the books actually exist.
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