Group

GoodreadsGroup

GoodreadsGroup is a BetterReads object for interfacing with group data from Goodreads.

Properties

• gid: Goodreads id for the Group (type: int)
• title: Title of the group (type: string)
• description: Short text description of the group (type: string)

• category: Text category for filtering groups (type: string)

  • Example: Organizations

• subcategory: Text category for further filtering groups (type: string)

  • Example: Companies

• rules: Text description of the rules for participating in the group (type: string)
• image_url: URL for the group’s featured image (type: string)
• last_activity_at: String representation of the time and date of the group’s last activity (type: datetime)
• access: Indicates whether a group is public or private (type: string)
• users_count: Number of users in the group (type: int)
• members: List of dicts containing information about group members. Member ids can be used to query GoodreadsUsers using the GoodreadsClient (type: list)

Usage

You can query Group information from the GoodreadsClient by searching by id.

>>> 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.'