Calling a web API with Hugo

I recently added a /now slash-page to my blog. It’s mostly empty, except for the current book I’m reading and the last three books I’ve finished. Because I’m incredibly lazy and don’t want to keep this list updated manually, I went looking for a way to automate things. I already use Jelu to bring some order to my book reading. I have a list of books that I want to read next, I can easily mark one of them as “currently reading” and once I finish it, I write a short review for myself — mostly as a reminder for my future self about what actually happened in the book. 😅 And, being a Open Source project, of course Jelu has an API. So, why not use that? As always, I started out crafting some curl requests to explore the API. I got sidetracked a bit, because I thought you needed a user ID to get at the lists, and even giving an API token the highest amount of permissions wouldn’t let me access the /api/v1/users endpoint. You can do that with a username and password, if you’re an…