README.rst

goodreads_api_client

A lightweight wrapper around the Goodreads API

Installation

$ pip install goodreads_api_client

Usage

>>> import goodreads_api_client as gr
>>> client = gr.Client(developer_key='<YOUR_DEVELOPER_KEY>')
>>> book = client.Book.show('1128434')
>>> keys_wanted = ['id', 'title', 'isbn']
>>> reduced_book = {k:v for k, v in book.items() if k in keys_wanted}
>>> reduced_book
{'id': '1128434', 'title': 'The Last Wish (The Witcher, #1)', 'isbn': '0575077832'}

Resources

• Goodreads API Docs

Rationale

There are a number of Goodreads API wrapper libraries out there, but most are either abandoned or the code is some combination of odd, undocumented, untested, or incomplete in its API coverage.

Contributing

To install locally

$ make install

And to test

$ make test