This a Google Books API CLI program used to query the book by a given title or an id. It automatically opens the free listed books as Chrome tabs where the books can later be downloaded if they are in PDF or added to Google Books App.
Depending on your country, the results may vary.
Prerequisites:
- Python
- Requests package:
- To install requests package use:
pip install requests
- To install requests package use:
- json package:
- To install json package use:
pip install json
- To install json package use:
- click package:
- To install click package use:
pip install click
- To install click package use:
- webbrowser package:
- To install webbrowser package use:
pip install webbrowser
- To install webbrowser package use:
- chrome path in: > "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"
Clone or download the repository and run the googlebooks.py file navigate to the folder where the .py file is located and use: googlebooks.py search YOUR_BOOK_TITLE
Attention: if the book title has more than one word in it (most cases) type the title without white spaces.
As an example, the following will appear:
Searched using: googlebooks.py search harrypotter
Searched simply using: googlebooks.py search oz
