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http://www.goodreads.com/user_status/...
maybe I could add a parameter that filters to only show the most recent one for each book?

was a parameter to filter for the most recent status updates added? I've also been asked to display a user's current status.
thanks,
Casper.



Can you make it return all the currently-reading ones, or allow a parameter which specifies how far back to get statuses?
Alternatively, can you add returning statuses to book.show or similar?
We're writing a tool to update goodreads status (that is, page we're on) using the data that our Sony EReader stores. However it will happily send a second update for same book/page combination, unless we can get at the existing statuses for all books in currently-reading.
Thanks!

... it doesn't return ALL books that I'm in the middle of, from my currently-reading list, only a few recent updates.
Coudl you give me an example url you're using here?
What exactly do you mean by:
Alternatively, can you add returning statuses to book.show or similar?
I think if you're using oauth, book/show should return the current users status (I'd have to double check this).

I just checked, that is true. Current user progress updates are returned with OAuth authentication.

... it doesn't return ALL books that I'm in the middle of, from my currently-reading list, only a few recent updates.
Coudl you give me an example url you're using here?
What exactly ..."
http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/44... Doesn't contain, for example, the current status of "The Art of SQL" which is in my currently-reading list, and status is showing on my profile page as being p251 of 367.
I'll check book/show again, thanks.

I just checked, that is true. Current user progress updates are r..."
Huh, so it does, I should've looked closer.. So I can use that and query each book separately.
Not that it wouldn't be useful to find out why user show doesn't have them all :)

http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/44...
in the xml version. We're currently capping at 3 books per person just fo display reasons.
I could easily throw together an api request that lists all of a user's current statuses, but we don't have that at the moment.

http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/44...
in the xml version. We're currently capping at 3 books per person just fo display reasons.
I could easily throw togeth..."
Would you mind putting that in the TODO pile then? I need all the statuses, and it would be cheaper network-wise, to fetch my user_status once, than one each of all the books I'm interested in.
Thanks!


The updates RSS feed is quite good: https://www.goodreads.com/user_status... but it can't really be used since you can't paginate it. (Unlike the page here: https://www.goodreads.com/user_status...)
I just wish there was a /api/user.list_status?user_id=6170741 endpoint

https://www.goodreads.com/user_status...
However, I strongly agree that a API end-point for all (or paginationable) status updates for a specific user is very much wanted.
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Is that possible?