Meet Gopal, a book enthusiast who has a great passion for reading books. He ran into trouble trying to locate his favourite books, which led to him coming up with an idea of creating a chatbot which would assist him by recommending a list of books with the necessary details. Unfortunately, Gopal's lack of programming skills proved a significant obstacle in making his "PagePal" a reality.
As a programmer, help Gopal in uniting him with his PagePal!
Create a book recommendation telegram bot that displays a list of books with details like Book title, author, description, year published (originally), language and preview (if available) when the user types in the genre of the book they want to read.
Feel free to customise your PagePal with more features ;)
- Before you start coding, set up your python virtual environment. This is an important step and always remember, Google is your friend :)
- The bot should have four basic commands:
/startreturns a welcome message to the user/bookasks the user to type in the genre/previewasks the user for the book name for which they need preview link/listasks the user for the book name which they want to add or delete from their reading list/reading_listallows user to add a book, delete a book or view their reading list/helpreturns the list of commands with their description
- When the
/bookcommand is typed in, the user is asked to enter the genre name, upon which the user types in the name and the bot returns a CSV file with different book names and their details. The CSV file should have different columns for each detail. - When the
/previewcommand is typed in, the user is asked to enter the book name, upon which it redirects us to the preview link.
The following resources will help if you are clueless about where to start.