Python requests script that queris Google books API for book info using ISBN

book_isbn_query.py

import urllib.request
import json

book_ISBN = "9780307277671"

google_api = "https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes?q=isbn:"

with urllib.request.urlopen(google_api + book_ISBN) as f:
  text = f.read()

decoded_text = text.decode("utf-8")
obj = json.loads(decoded_text)
# the full data
# print(obj)

book_info = obj["items"][0]

# human-readable data
print("\nTitle:", book_info["volumeInfo"]["title"])
print("\nDescription:", book_info["volumeInfo"]["description"])
print("\nAuthor(s):", ",".join(book_info["volumeInfo"]["authors"]))
print("\nPages:", book_info["volumeInfo"]["pageCount"])
print("\nLanguage:", book_info["volumeInfo"]["language"])
print("\n########### Finished ###########")