Books

Let’s access the first book added to Goodreads! It is the book with id 1.

book = gc.book(1)

Once you have the GoodreadsBook instance for the book, you can access data for the queried book.

>>> book.title
u'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)'
>>> authors = book.authors
>>> authors[0].name
u'J.K. Rowling'
>>> book.average_rating
u'4.49'

Authors

You can get information about an author as well.

>>> author = gc.author(2617)
>>> author.name
u'Jonathan Safran Foer'
>>> author.works_count
u'13'
>>> author.books
[Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Everything Is Illuminated, Eating Animals, Tree of Codes, Everything is Illuminated & Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The unabridged pocketbook of lightning, The Future Dictionary of America, A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by Joseph Cornell, New American Haggadah, The Sixth Borough]

Users

User data can be retrieved by user id or username.

>>> user = gc.user(1)
>>> user.name
u'Otis Chandler'
>>> user.user_name
u'otis'
>>> user.small_image_url
u'http://d.gr-assets.com/users/1189644957p2/1.jpg'

Groups

Let’s find a group discussing Python and get more information about it.

>>> g = gc.find_groups("Python")
>>> g = groups[0]
>>> g['title']
u'The Computer Scientists'
>>> group = gc.group(g['id'])
>>> group.description
u'Only for Committed Self Learners and Computer Scientists Who are Starving for
Information, and Want to Advance their Skills Through: Reading, Practicing and
Discussion Computer Science and Programming Books.'

Events

Goodreads API also allows to list events happening in an area.

>>> events = gc.list_events(21229)
>>> event = events[0]
>>> event.title
u'Books and Cocktails'
>>> event.address
u'120 N. Front St.'
>>> event.city
u'Wrightsville'