Charles’s Comments (group member since Nov 30, 2015)

Charles’s comments from the Goodreads Developers group.

Hi Rui,

There is currently no similar authors api available. You could get similar books via the book/show api and extract the authors of those books.

Best regards,
Charles

Hi Mohammed,

pubDate = Publication date
user_read_at = The date the user read the book
user_date_added = The date the user added the book to a shelf.
user_date_created = The date the user created a review for a book.

Best regards,
Charles

Hi Matt,

Unfortunately, there is no way to custom sort the reviews widget.

Best regards,
Charles

Hi Ron,

There is currently no way to get user reviews in this way.

Best regards,
Charles

Hi Mihir,

Unfortunately, there is no way to do that with the current API.

Best regards,
Charles

@Ravi, apologies for the very late reply. If you use the isbn_to_id method like this: https://www.goodreads.com/book/isbn_t...

then that will return the book ID. Then you can use the book/show endpoint to get the book information:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Best regards,
Charles

Hi,

In order to get a book's ISBN and description, you will have to use the book/show API method. There is currently no way to specify partial responses.

Best regards,
Charles

Hi,

Shelves and genres are distinct fields. Some people may create shelves with the same name as a genre however.

Best regards,
Charles

Hi Mauricio,

I'm not exactly sure what you would like to do. But it sounds like you want to create a custom chart with ratings from the Goodreads API. Most likely, you will have to make the API call and create the chart on your end using the data returned.

Charles

See if https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/new?... works instead

Charles

Hi Developer Alf,

There is currently no way to retrieve author id from user id. User ID and author ID are different. You could do a name search with search.authors.

Charles

Hi Andrew,

Those buy links are actually for use on the Goodreads website which can parse and redirect the user based on those URL's. They don't work for other apps.

You might be able to create your own buy links using a book's ISBN if the store's API supports that.

Charles

Sorry to hear you were having problems retrieving an API key. It may have been a temporary issue as it appears to be working again today.

Please let me know if you still have this problem.

Thanks,
Charles

Hi Joe,

Sorry to hear you were having issues with the site. It appears to be working now. Please try again and let me know if it still doesn't work for you.

Thanks,
Charles

Sounds like an interesting project. You could use the work.editions method. This does require extra permission though so you would need to contact us. Thanks.
https://www.goodreads.com/api/index#w...

Thanks for the suggestion, Dave. We'll consider adding this in the future.

Hi Ravi,

I'm sorry to hear you're having problems. The book.isbn_to_id method appears to be working. Are you including your developer key in order to get the XML? The book response is getting returned correctly when I just tried it.

If you want to get a specific review, you can use the review.show method.

Best,
Charles

Hi Marcella,

Thanks for pointing out that bug. I'll forward it to the appropriate team.

Best,
Charles

Hi Martin,

The API will currently only return a whole number average rating.

Charles

Hi Bart,

There is currently no way to add or edit a note via the API. You can post that as a feature request though.

Charles