Tgbook: Telegram bot for interacting with calibre, goodreads and lazylibrarian.

Tgbook is telegram bot wrap around Tgbot and it's capable of searching and retrieving books in calibre, adding book in goodreads in lazylibrarian for downloading and much more to come!

Building

Requirements

• Cpr library for handling http request.
• nlohmann/json for fast JSON parsing.
• Boost library.
• spdlog for logging purposes.

To build tgbot, firstly you need to install some dependencies such as Boost and build tools such as CMake. On Debian-based distibutives you can do it with these commands:

sudo apt-get install g++ make binutils cmake libssl-dev libboost-system-dev zlib1g-dev

Compilation

If you have Cmake, compile with:

cmake .
make -j4

Running

Set all the necessary environment variables before running the executable.

export GOODREADS_KEY="<goodreads developer key>"
export TG_TOKEN="<telegram token>"
export CALIBRE_IP="<the address of calibre running>"

Usage

• /book <string> : searh the calibre library for . This will return the calibre book id and format.
• /book-get <id> <format> : use the id and format obtain from above to retrive the book.