Project Overview

I made this project as I was learning python, during my learning period I thought what would be a better way to test the things that I have learned so I built this simple bookbot. You give the path of the .txt file(preferably the content of a book) and it fetches the text inside it and it will give you a simple menu with 3 options,

• Give the count of each character present in the text
• Summarize the text
• Exit the program

The file structure is

Bookbot/
├── books/
│   └── yourbook.txt
├── main.py
├── stats.py
├── .env
└── .gitignore

Character count

For this I just used a normal dictionary and stored the count for each word in the from of key value pair. It returns the count of each character in descending order.

The syntax for that part is

words=words.lower()
    words_count={}
    for ch in words:
        if ch in words_count:
            words_count[ch]+=1;
        else:
            words_count[ch]=1;

Summarize the text

I have used Gemini API to summarize the text

I will suggest to create a virtual environment(venv) first and install the dependencies there

python3 -m venv venv

Also add the venv/ along with .env to your .gitignore file

you will first have to install dotenv to load environment variables from the .env file

pip install python-dotenv

Then genai package from google

pip install google-genai

For the api key

• Go to https://aistudio.google.com and get their own Gemini API key
• Create a .env file in the project folder
• Add this line to it
• GEMINI_API_KEY=their-key-here

To run the program

Make sure you have python installed in your system.

commands to run the program

• If you have created a virtual environment(venv) then

source venv/bin/activate

• to run the program

python3 main.py books/yourbook.txt

instead of books/yourbook.txt give the path where the .txt file that you want to used is stored

Where do I get the books in .txt?

You can get free books in .txt format from Project Gutenberg