initial version of the working integration with Goodreads API

utils/.gitignore

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-.idea
+.idea
+__pycache__
+config.py

utils/config-sample.py

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+# save this file as 'config.py' and then, fill it with you api key
+GOODREADS_PUBLIC_API_KEY = 'write here your goodreads public API key'

utils/housekeep.py

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+from config import GOODREADS_PUBLIC_API_KEY
+
 file_with_books = './../README.MD'
 
 # we assume that every line after # Books starting with * is a book title
@@ -80,7 +82,25 @@ def render(file_name, library):
                     out_file.write(line)
                     books_not_reached = True
 
-
+def get_details(book_object):
+    import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
+    import urllib.request
+    import urllib.error
+    url = "http://www.goodreads.com/book/title.xml?key={}&title={}".format(GOODREADS_PUBLIC_API_KEY, book_object['title'])
+    url = url.replace(' ', '%20')
+    print(url)
+    try:
+        tree = ET.ElementTree(file=urllib.request.urlopen(url))
+        root = tree.getroot()
+        book = root.find('book')
+        book_object['year'] = book.find('publication_year').text
+        book_object['lang'] = book.find('language_code').text
+        book_object['avg_rt'] = book.find('average_rating').text
+        book_object['pages'] = book.find('num_pages').text
+    except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:
+        print('Error getting book details from goodread: ')
+        print(str(e.getcode()) + ' ' + e.msg)
+    print(book_object)
 
 library = load(file_with_books)
 library = sort_by(library, 'title')
@@ -90,4 +110,7 @@ render('./../by-title.md', library)
 library = load(file_with_books)
 library = sort_by(library, 'author')
 
-render('./../by-author.md', library)
+render('./../by-author.md', library)
+
+print(library)
+get_details(library['### Miscellaneous'][0])