Fix for goodreads not working anymore (due to blocked requests calls by goodreads.com)

cps/services/goodreads_support.py

@@ -18,18 +18,51 @@
 
 import time
 from functools import reduce
+import requests
+import xmltodict
+
+from goodreads.client import GoodreadsClient
+from goodreads.request import GoodreadsRequest
 
 try:
-    from goodreads.client import GoodreadsClient
+    import Levenshtein
 except ImportError:
-    from betterreads.client import GoodreadsClient
-
-try: import Levenshtein
-except ImportError: Levenshtein = False
+    Levenshtein = False
 
 from .. import logger
 
 
+class my_GoodreadsClient(GoodreadsClient):
+
+    def request(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        """Create a GoodreadsRequest object and make that request"""
+        req = my_GoodreadsRequest(self, *args, **kwargs)
+        return req.request()
+
+class GoodreadsRequestException(Exception):
+    def __init__(self, error_msg, url):
+        self.error_msg = error_msg
+        self.url = url
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        return self.url, ':', self.error_msg
+
+
+class my_GoodreadsRequest(GoodreadsRequest):
+
+    def request(self):
+        resp = requests.get(self.host+self.path, params=self.params,
+                            headers={"User-agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:125.0) "
+                                                  "Gecko/20100101 Firefox/125.0"})
+        if resp.status_code != 200:
+            raise GoodreadsRequestException(resp.reason, self.path)
+        if self.req_format == 'xml':
+            data_dict = xmltodict.parse(resp.content)
+            return data_dict['GoodreadsResponse']
+        else:
+            raise Exception("Invalid format")
+
+
 log = logger.create()
 _client = None  # type: GoodreadsClient
 
@@ -38,20 +71,20 @@ _CACHE_TIMEOUT = 23 * 60 * 60  # 23 hours (in seconds)
 _AUTHORS_CACHE = {}
 
 
-def connect(key=None, secret=None, enabled=True):
+def connect(key=None, enabled=True):
     global _client
 
-    if not enabled or not key or not secret:
+    if not enabled or not key:
         _client = None
         return
 
     if _client:
         # make sure the configuration has not changed since last we used the client
-        if _client.client_key != key or _client.client_secret != secret:
+        if _client.client_key != key:
             _client = None
 
     if not _client:
-        _client = GoodreadsClient(key, secret)
+        _client = GoodreadsClient(key, None)
 
 
 def get_author_info(author_name):