How do I get Good Reads Book ID from a Good Reads URL?

[v]

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Basically I want to extract Good Read ID from the Good Read URL.

Example:

URL - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

The ID here is 1. How do I get it? Is there any API end point?

If not, I can use good ol regex. So I think following are valid URL formats:

- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

So basically the format is https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/

However what if the book name itself has a number?

Take this example: 12 Monkeys

Following are valid:

- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8...
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8...

So now regex becomes: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/

but that again fits into: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/

Am I right path?

[v]

Don't know how to properly format code in OP. Please check this: https://www.notehub.org/pnlkr

Thank you!

[Michael]

We may change the format of the URL at any time.


Haven't tested this extensively, but i think if you look for the first match of /(\d+?)/ that will work.


Keep in mind this could break at any moment if we make changes to our url structures.

[v]

yup, thats what I thought. Thanks, I will keep in mind that you guys may change the URL.