goodreads.py

import os
# import beautiful soup
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
import json
# import plotting library from matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

def get_list_of_titles() :
    """Ask the user for a list of books, one per line."""
    titles = []
    while True:
        new_title = input("Title: ")
        if new_title:
            titles.append(new_title)
        else:
            break
    return titles

# Get the GoodReads API key from the environment
key = os.environ.get("GOODREADS_API_KEY")

def scrape_goodreads(titles) :
    """Get the average rating of each book from GoodReads, and return a list of floats."""
    ratings = []
    for title in titles:
        url = "https://www.goodreads.com/book/title.xml?key={}&title={}".format(key, title)
        response = requests.get(url)
        soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, "html.parser")
        rating = soup.find("average_rating").text
        ratings.append(float(rating))
    return ratings

def show(titles,ratings) :
    """Show the titles and ratings in a bar chart."""
    # Make a bar chart
    plt.bar(range(len(ratings)), ratings)
    # Add labels to the ticks of the bar chart
    plt.xticks(range(len(ratings)), titles)
    # Show the plot
    plt.show()

titles = get_list_of_titles()
ratings = scrape_goodreads(titles)
show(titles, ratings)