This book finder application uses Google Books API to search for books based on user input in the command line interface.
The search returns a list of 5 books matching keywords, genres, or titles provided by user.
User can select books from list to add to a new list called, "Reading List".
Each result must include: title, author, publisher/company.
https://developers.google.com/books/docs/overview
https://docs.pytest.org/en/6.2.x/index.html
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Install python and pip on your computer. To check the current version of Python installed on your computer; open your command line interface and run the command:
python3 --version
Python versions 3.4 and above include pip installation. For earlier Python versions, install pip using your command line interface and run the command:
pip -- version python3 pip install virtualenv
Download Python: Here
Access Python documentation: Here
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Once python is installed, clone the latest version of this project using the following command in the command line interface:
git clone https://github.com/stephback/Google_Books_API_Search_CLI_App.git
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Locate the cloned project in your local directory using the command line interface. Once located, find the file named:
execute_program_app.py
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Once execute_program_app.py is located, run the command:
python3 execute_program_app.py
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Follow prompts on command line interface.
- Currently, this project lacks tests for the following modules:
- execute_program_app.py
- print_app_results.py
- There are TypeError bugs present in the book_finder module due to url, api_key, and query categories consisting of strings and objects. This is causing the api connection to fail.
- Ideally, I would like to implement the urllib request and parse libraries to build/handle these query strings.
- In the future, add functionality to view multiple books and save multiple books to reading list.
- Add functionality that handles errors and user input errors better.