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douban, from the command line

Crawl Douban (豆瓣) into structured JSON, or mirror the whole catalog offline. One pure-Go binary, no API key, output that pipes into the rest of your tools.

Crawl Douban (豆瓣) into structured JSON, or mirror it offline

douban search python              # cross-category search
douban book 1084336               # one book in full
douban top250 --limit 50          # the movie Top 250
douban seed ids --type book --from 1084336 --to 1084340
douban crawl --limit 20           # build a local mirror

Seven read-only lookup commands over Douban's public pages (search, suggest, book, top250, chart, nowplaying, doulist), plus a mirror subsystem that crawls the catalog into a local store you can query offline. The CLI reference is the full surface; the mirror guide is the crawl workflow.

Where to go next

Getting started Install douban, learn the model, and run your first command. Guides Task-oriented walkthroughs for the things people do with douban.