utils: Store only text as description.

app/gatsby-node.js

@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ exports.createPages = async function ({ actions, graphql }) {
               author
               year
               category
+              image_url
+              description
             }
           }
         }

app/src/components/bookcard.js

@@ -3,18 +3,27 @@ import React from "react"
 import StarRatings from "react-star-ratings"
 import { Card, Row, Col } from "react-bootstrap"
 
+const truncateContent = (content) => {
+  if (!content) {
+    return ""
+  }
+  return content.length > 600 ? content.substring(0, 600) + "..." : content
+};
+
+
 const BookCard = ({ book }) => (
-  <Card style={{ width: "44rem", height: "12rem" }}>
+  <Card style={{ width: "44rem", height: "24rem", marginBottom: "15px" }}>
     <Row>
-      <Col>
+      <Col xs={3}>
         <Card.Img
-          variant="side"
-          src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1457284880l/27220736.jpg"
+          style={{ height: "12rem", width: "8rem", paddingLeft: "25px", paddingRight: "-15px", paddingTop: "30px"}}
+          src={book.image_url}
         />
       </Col>
       <Col>
         <Card.Body>
           <Card.Title>{book.title}</Card.Title>
+          <Card.Subtitle className="mb-2 text-muted">
           <StarRatings
             rating={parseFloat(book.rating)}
             numberOfStars={5}
@@ -22,9 +31,12 @@ const BookCard = ({ book }) => (
             starSpacing="1px"
             starRatedColor="#fa604a"
           />
-          <Card.Subtitle className="mb-2 text-muted">
+          <br />
             {book.author}
           </Card.Subtitle>
+          <p>
+          {truncateContent(book.description)}
+          </p>
         </Card.Body>
       </Col>
     </Row>

app/src/pages/index.js

@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ export const query = graphql`
           author
           year
           category
+          description
+          image_url
         }
       }
     }

utils/gooodreads.py

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
 import urllib.request
 import urllib.error
 
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+
 from config import GOODREADS_PUBLIC_API_KEY
 
 
@@ -21,7 +23,8 @@ def get_details(book_object):
         book_object["rating"] = book.find("average_rating").text
         book_object["pages"] = book.find("num_pages").text
         book_object["image_url"] = book.find("image_url").text
-        book_object["description"] = book.find("description").text
+        if (description := book.find("description").text):
+            book_object["description"] = BeautifulSoup(description).text
         book_object["isbn"] = book.find("isbn").text
         return True
     except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:

utils/update_json_files.py

@@ -3,8 +3,9 @@ import time
 
 from read_file import load
 from gooodreads import get_details
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 
-required_fields = ["title", "author", "url", "rating", "year", "pages", "image_url", "description"]
+required_fields = ["title", "author", "url", "rating", "year", "pages", "image_url", "description", "category"]
 
 def book_has_all_fields(book):
     for required_field in required_fields:
@@ -13,11 +14,18 @@ def book_has_all_fields(book):
             return False
     return True
 
+def clean_category(category_raw):
+    if "### " in category_raw:
+        return category_raw[4:]
+    if "## " in category_raw:
+        return category_raw[3:]
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     library = load("../README.md", "new")
     existing_book_names_to_details = json.load(open("books.json"))
 
     for category in library:
+        category_name = clean_category(category)
         for book in library[category]:
             if (title := book["title"]) in existing_book_names_to_details:
                 existing_book = existing_book_names_to_details[title]
@@ -28,6 +36,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
                 "title": title,
                 "author": book["author"],
                 "url": book["url"],
+                "category": category_name
             }
             fetched = get_details(new_book)
             if fetched:
@@ -38,3 +47,13 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
             else:
                 print(f"❌ Error while fetching {title}")
             time.sleep(1)
+
+    book_list = []
+    for _, book in existing_book_names_to_details.items():
+        book_list.append(book)
+
+    with open("books.json", "w") as f:
+        json.dump(existing_book_names_to_details, f, sort_keys=True, indent=4, separators=(',', ': '))
+
+    with open("books_list.json", "w") as f:
+        json.dump(book_list, f, sort_keys=True, indent=4, separators=(',', ': '))