Snippet: Discord Prefix Command to Search for books using Google Books API

Discord Prefix Command to Search for books using Google Books API

Janeth Graziani — JanethL

This snippet is an example of how you can make a request to an external API like Google Books API and send retrieved data into Discord. For a complete explanation check out the guide: https://autocode.com/autocode/threads/how-to-make-a-request-to-an-external-api-using-autocode-tutorial-c05d083a/

const lib = require('lib')({token: process.env.STDLIB_SECRET_TOKEN});

let search = context.params.event.content.replace('!search', '').split('author:')[0].trim();
let author = context.params.event.content.replace('!search', '').split('author:')[1].trim();
search = search.replace('&', '');
author = author.replace('&', '');
// make API request
let result = await lib.http.request['@1.1.6'].get({
  url: `https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes`,
  headers: {
    key: ``,
  },
  queryParams: {
    q: `${search}`,
    inauthor: `${author}`,
  },
});
console.log(result.data.items);
let books = result.data.items.slice(0, 5);
for (let i = 0; i < books.length; i++) {
  await lib.discord.channels['@0.3.0'].messages.create({
    channel_id: `${context.params.event.channel_id}`,
    content: 'Here are your search results!',
    tts: false,
    embeds: [
      {
        type: 'rich',
        title: `${books[i].volumeInfo.title} by ${books[i].volumeInfo.authors}`,
        description: result.data.items[i].volumeInfo.description,
        color: 0x00c3ff,
        fields: [
          {
            name: 'Published Date:',
            value: `${books[i].volumeInfo.publishedDate}`,
            inline: true,
          },
          {
            name: 'Page Count:',
            value: `${books[i].volumeInfo.pageCount}`,
            inline: true,
          },
          {
            name: `Rating:`,
            value: `${books[i].volumeInfo.averageRating}`,
            inline: true,
          },
        ],
        image: {
          url: `${books[i].volumeInfo.imageLinks.thumbnail}`,
          height: 0,
          width: 0,
        },
        url: `${books[i].volumeInfo.previewLink}`,
      },
    ],
  });
}