search.authors method broken

[Adam]

As another user pointed out

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/9...

the search.authors method is broken. This method allows you to get info on authors by name rather than author id. Does GR plan to fix the method anytime soon?

[Brie]

Any update on this? Still looks broken.

[Brian]

I'm also interesting in being able to search for authors by name, is this going to get fixed?

[Michael]

Can you give us an example api url thats not working? Please omit your developer key.

[Brie]

The example in the API docs is not working:

http://www.goodreads.com/api#search.a...

http://www.goodreads.com/api/author_u...

[Michael]

oh damn it

this is the correct url:
http://www.goodreads.com/api/author_u...

or
http://www.goodreads.com/api/author_u...

Somehow the docs got f'd. I'll see if we can't upgrade them soon.

[Chase]

We've made a fix to the API docs that should reflect the correct syntax in our next site update; in the meantime, the syntax Michael provided should work. Thanks for finding this, Brie!

[Brie]

Thanks for the update guys -- will check this out today. :)

[Simon]

Is there a way to perform a wildcard search on authors? I'd really like to be able do a query like 'terry' and receive a list of authors, rather than the single response that currently comes back.

[Brian]

I agree with Simon, the current api method doesn't really do a search as I would describe it.

[Michael]

We'll consider adding that, but it's a rather expensive look up.