Connect
Goodreads Connect lets people on other websites or applications connect to their Goodreads account, so that app can have access to the member's friends, books, ratings, and reviews. Goodreads Connect can be used in a variety of ways:eCommerce sites can use Goodreads Connect to allow shoppers to access their to-read shelves and other shelves as part of their shopping experience. Goodreads users’ to-read shelves are the best place to find the books a user explicitly wants to consume. In exchange for providing retailers with a user’s list of books to-read, Goodreads collects an affiliate fee for each purchase initiated from the user’s Goodreads bookshelf. Please contact us for more information.
Personalized Book Reviews
Booksellers, library catalogs, and anyone else displaying Goodreads Reviews can use Goodreads Connect to show a user their friends ratings and reviews separately from the general communities reviews.
This is one of the most valuable pieces of information Goodreads possess, as it, more than almost any other factor, helps people decide if they'd like to read a book or not. Indeed, the presence of a single friends rating can often pique a persons interest in a book.
This is one of the most valuable pieces of information Goodreads possess, as it, more than almost any other factor, helps people decide if they'd like to read a book or not. Indeed, the presence of a single friends rating can often pique a persons interest in a book.
Access a Persons Favorite Books
By using the API to access the books the member has read, developers can easily power a number of useful experiences, such as a simple widget to let members show off their favorite books on your website.
By analyzing the books a person has read, and combining it with their own data, developers gain access to deeply valuable information about which kind of books to suggest their users might like to read.
By analyzing the books a person has read, and combining it with their own data, developers gain access to deeply valuable information about which kind of books to suggest their users might like to read.
Build a Client Application
The Goodreads API can be used to build a fully featured Goodreads Client on a mobile device, desktop, or other application platform. The API supports the following features:
The official Goodreads iOS and Android apps were built 100% using the API.
- Searching for books and authors
- Adding books: reviews, ratings, shelves
- Viewing information about a book: friend reviews, meta-data, community reviews, lists, shelves, and more
- Adding comments to friends book reviews
- Adding friends, and browsing friends of friends
- Browsing lists of books in Listopia
- Adding progress updates and notes for members reading a book
- And much more!
The official Goodreads iOS and Android apps were built 100% using the API.
