Hey everyone! I’m working on a cool project to create an inline Telegram bot that pulls book info from Goodreads. I’m stuck on how to properly fetch the book details from Goodreads and format them correctly for the Telegram Bot API fields. Has anyone done something similar before? I’d love some tips on the best way to handle this data transfer and formatting. Maybe there’s a library or technique I’m overlooking? Any advice would be super helpful! Thanks in advance for your input!
For integrating Goodreads data into a Telegram bot, I’d recommend using a combination of the Goodreads API and a robust Python library like ‘telegraf’ for Telegram bot development. Fetch the book data using requests, then parse the XML response with ElementTree. To handle formatting, create a custom function that extracts relevant fields and structures them according to Telegram’s inline query result format.
Consider implementing a caching mechanism to store frequently requested book information, reducing API calls and improving response times. Also, be mindful of rate limits imposed by Goodreads API.
For error handling, wrap your API calls in try-except blocks and provide fallback responses when the Goodreads API is unresponsive. This approach should give you a solid foundation for your project.
have u tried using the goodreads API directly? u could fetch book data with that, then use a python library like python-telegram-bot to format n send it. might need to play around with json parsing to get the info u want. goodluck with ur project mate!
I’ve actually tackled a similar project before. One approach that worked well for me was using the Goodreads API in combination with the requests library in Python to fetch book data. Then, I used the aiogram framework for the Telegram bot part - it’s quite powerful and easier to work with than python-telegram-bot in my experience.
For formatting, I created a custom function to parse the XML response from Goodreads and extract the relevant fields. Then I used aiogram’s built-in message formatting options to create nice-looking inline results.
A word of caution though - Goodreads’ API can be a bit finicky sometimes, so make sure to implement proper error handling and maybe even consider caching frequently requested book info to reduce API calls.
Hope this helps point you in the right direction. Let me know if you need any more specific advice!