sinfulbaby / book-finder

Find the book you want to read next!

Book Finder

Find the book you want to read next!

About The Project

Book Finder is your go-to place for all kinds of book related searches, need to read a book but don't know where to find it?

We got your back! Started in 2022, we are an open-source free search engine with over a million books and more to find out. Here you won't just be able to read books but also listen to them.

So what are you waiting for? Search your favourite book right now!

Features

• Allows user to search books by title, author and ISBN number.
• Allows user to read the preview of the book.
• Generate picture of book along with external link to see a preview of the book on Google Books.
• Along with the books for reading, audiobooks are also available.

Tech Stack

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• Bootstrap
• Google Books API

Screenshot

Getting Started

Below are the steps to follow to contribute to this project:

1. Fork this repository.

2. Clone your forked copy of the project.

git clone https://github.com/<your_user_name>/book-finder.git

where your_user_name is your GitHub username.

3. Navigate to the project directory.

cd book-finder

4. Add a reference(remote) to the original repository.

git remote add upstream https://github.com/wasimreja/book-finder.git

5. Check the remotes for this repository.

git remote -v

6. Always take a pull from the upstream repository to your main branch to keep it at par with the main project(updated repository). Feel free to raise new issues.

git pull upstream main

7. Create a new branch.

git checkout -b <your_branch_name>

8. Make necessary changes and commit those changes

9. Track your changes.

git add .

10. Commit your changes .

git commit -m "bla bla bla"

11. Push the committed changes in your feature branch to your remote repo.

git push -u origin <your_branch_name>

12. To create a pull request, click on Compare & pull request. Please ensure you compare your feature branch to the desired branch of the repo you are suppose to make a PR to.

13. Add appropriate title and description to your pull request explaining your changes and efforts done.

14. Click on Create pull request.

15. And you are done creating a pull request to this project. Be patient while your PR is reviewed.

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

Contributors

Thanks to these wonderful people ✨