bgg_api/bgg_connection.py

import requests
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
from pydantic import HttpUrl

from classes.boardgame import BoardGame, BoardGameExpansion

def url_to_xml_object(url: HttpUrl) -> ET.Element:
    r = requests.get(url)
    root = ET.fromstring(r.content)
    return root


def get_boardgame(boardgame_id: int) -> BoardGame:
    url : str = "https://boardgamegeek.com/xmlapi2/thing?id={}&stats=true".format(boardgame_id)
    boardgame_xml_object : ET.Element = url_to_xml_object(url)