BookShelf

Inspiration

• We all wanted to make book reading on a regular basis more accessible
• This application allows others to get into reading books easier!

What it does

• Scrapes the web for books given a title and adds them to a to-read list.
• The books can also be added to a completed books list to keep track of them.

How we built it

• We used python, google_images_downloader, BeautifulSoup, and urllib to build our project.

Challenges we ran into

• None of us were familiar with python and it was our first time web scraping so it took a lot longer learning how to code than expected.
• We also wanted to implement a GUI but due to time constraints were not able to.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• We managed to implement a user interface inside the terminal that allows users to use the app from there.

What we learned

• We improved our python knowledge and learned about different types of imports that can really help with coding
• We learned how web-scraping works in python!

What's next for BookShelf

• Next up we want to add new types of things that BookShelf can have such as: magazines, audiobooks, etc.
• We also want to complete the GUI with book covers that we were planning on coding!

Built With

• python