text: from io import BytesIO
  import pandas as pd
  
  try:
      from pandas.io.common import ZipFile
  except ImportError:
      from zipfile import ZipFile
  
  
  def get_bookcrossing_data(local_file=None, get_ratings=True, get_users=False, get_books=False):
      if not local_file:
          # downloading data
          from requests import get
          zip_file_url = 'http://www2.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~cziegler/BX/BX-CSV-Dump.zip'
          zip_response = get(zip_file_url)
          zip_contents = BytesIO(zip_response.content)
      else:
          zip_contents = local_file
  
      ratings = users = books = None
  
      with ZipFile(zip_contents) as zfile:
          zip_files = pd.Series(zfile.namelist())
          zip_file = zip_files[zip_files.str.contains('ratings', flags=2)].iat[0]
  
          delimiter = ';'
          if get_ratings:
              zdata = zfile.read(zip_file)
              ratings = pd.read_csv(BytesIO(zdata), sep=delimiter, header=0,
                                    engine='c', encoding='unicode_escape')
  
          if get_users:
              zip_file = zip_files[zip_files.str.contains('users', flags=2)].iat[0]
              with zfile.open(zip_file) as zdata:
                  users = pd.read_csv(zdata, sep=delimiter, header=0, engine='c',
                                      encoding='unicode_escape')
  
          if get_books:
              zip_file = zip_files[zip_files.str.contains('books', flags=2)].iat[0]
              with zfile.open(zip_file) as zdata:
                  books = pd.read_csv(zdata, sep=delimiter, header=0, engine='c',
                                      quoting=1, escapechar='\\', encoding='unicode_escape',
                                      usecols=['ISBN', 'Book-Author', 'Publisher'])
  
      res = [data.rename(columns=lambda x: x.lower().replace('book-', '')
                                                    .replace('-id', 'id'), copy=False)
             for data in [ratings, users, books] if data is not None]
      if len(res)==1: res = res[0]
      return res
  