Jeff’s Comments (group member since May 08, 2013)

Jeff’s comments from the Goodreads Developers group.

Does it always work on every 2nd POST (i.e. every other POST) or does it fail on the first post and succeed after the 2nd POST?

There will be tag <liked>true</liked>, which will be present in the XML of the resource if the thing is liked.

If it's not liked, the tag will not be there.

No update on this yet, we'll try to fit it into an upcoming sprint.

Great! Glad you figured it out!

Goodreads uses Oauth 1.0. Are you using the Oauth 1.0 functions in that library?

Our API isn't suspecting that your app is a security risk. This is a bug on our end because the random padding is only supposed to go on HTML responses, not XML. Thanks for bringing it to our attention and we'll look into fixing it.

However, the token still works, correct? Are you able to perform POSTs with it?

We don't support oauth 2.0. Please use oauth 1.0.

Hi Raimund,

I asked around and the reading challenge API it isn't publicly accessible and, unfortunately, we don't currently have any plans to add it to our public API.

What kind of error are you getting?

Could you post the curl here? (but leave out your developer key)

We don't necessarily have rights to redistribute book images.

See https://www.goodreads.com/api#book.show

Hi Donna,

Thanks for pointing this out. It is actually a bug. I've filed a bug report and I'll post an update when we have an estimate for a fix (or announce the fix itself).

Jeff

201 means the call was a success and the object was successfully created. All HTTP response codes in the 200 range are successes.

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/r...

If the book is showing up on the shelf that the user added to, you might just need to change your app to recognize the response as a success and update your interface to reflect the new situation.

Hi,

The reviews widget only supports lookup by ISBN, and the only API I see that supports searching by title is search.books, which does not return ISBNs.

The book in question, 15765818, actually does have an ISBN listed your site. You could fix this case by requesting that a librarian add the ISBN for this book to Goodreads. In general, though, we can't return reviews without an ISBN.

The way you would probably do it at this point is to run a search query for each character typed, which would probably cause you to hit your rate limit very quickly.

We don't have currently have any plans to change our search API to optimize typeahead search for the API.

Hi Peter, I can answer your first question. There is a minimum threshold that has to be met for shelvings before a shelf can be declared "popular."