Create a daily reading recommendation bot

Here’s a complete implementation of a Daily Reading Recommendation Bot using Python. This bot provides users with a daily book/article/blog recommendation based on categories like fiction, non-fiction, self-help, and more. You can expand it later to pull from APIs like Google Books or Medium.

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import random
from datetime import datetime

class ReadingRecommendationBot:
    def __init__(self):
        self.recommendations = {
            "fiction": [
                "The Midnight Library by Matt Haig",
                "Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens",
                "The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern",
                "Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir",
                "Circe by Madeline Miller"
            ],
            "non_fiction": [
                "Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari",
                "Educated by Tara Westover",
                "Atomic Habits by James Clear",
                "The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk",
                "Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell"
            ],
            "self_help": [
                "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson",
                "Think Like a Monk by Jay Shetty",
                "The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle",
                "Deep Work by Cal Newport",
                "Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins"
            ],
            "tech": [
                "Clean Code by Robert C. Martin",
                "The Pragmatic Programmer by David Thomas & Andrew Hunt",
                "Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann",
                "AI Superpowers by Kai-Fu Lee",
                "Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark"
            ],
            "blog": [
                "Farnam Street (fs.blog)",
                "Wait But Why by Tim Urban",
                "Paul Graham’s Essays (paulgraham.com)",
                "Stratechery by Ben Thompson",
                "Nautilus (nautil.us)"
            ]
        }

    def get_daily_recommendation(self, category=None):
        random.seed(datetime.now().timetuple().tm_yday)  # Ensures the same rec for a day
        if category and category in self.recommendations:
            return random.choice(self.recommendations[category])
        else:
            all_recs = [item for sublist in self.recommendations.values() for item in sublist]
            return random.choice(all_recs)

# Example Usage
bot = ReadingRecommendationBot()

# Get a general daily recommendation
print("📚 Today's Reading Recommendation:")
print(bot.get_daily_recommendation())

# Get a category-specific recommendation
print("n📘 Self-Help Pick of the Day:")
print(bot.get_daily_recommendation("self_help"))

Features:

• Daily Seeded Randomization: Ensures the same recommendation persists throughout a day.

• Category Filtering: Optional argument to get specific genre recommendations.

• Simple Expandability: Easily add new sources or integrate APIs.

Let me know if you want this turned into a Telegram/Discord bot or integrated with web scraping or an RSS feed.