useGoodreads

A react hook to get your Goodreads data. Strongly typed using Typescript.

Installation

   // yarn
   yarn add usegoodreads

   // npm
   npm i usegoodreads

Usage

// Require the module
import { useGoodreads } from 'usegoodreads';

const App = () => {
  const { fetchBooks, loading, data } = useGoodreads({
    userId: 'your-user-id',
    shelf: 'currenty-reading',
  });

  useEffect(() => {
    // use the callback to retrieve data from Goodreads
    fetchBooks();
  }, []);
  
  return (
    <div>
        <ul>
          {data?.map(b => (
            // render your UI with your Goodreads data!
          ))}
        </ul>
    </div>
  );
};

Props

Prop	Type	Optional	Default	Description
userId	string	No	undefined	Required to get the books data from the user
shelf	string	Yes	'read'	Based on the default shelf from Goodreads, which are 'read', 'currently-reading' or 'to-read'
customShelf	string	Yes	undefined	Used to retrieve shelfs created by the user. This overrides the value from the 'shelf' property

Example

Refer to the example folder to find an implementation of this project