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message 1: by Andrew (new)

Andrew Nguyen | 3 comments Is this a bug or intentional?

For example: http://www.goodreads.com/review/list?...

'Introduction to Algorithms' has 4 authors, yet only the first shows up, despite having the XML having a node called 'authors'. book.show however returns all the authors.


message 2: by Ettore (new)

Ettore Pasquini It looks like that api was built like that by design, i.e. to include essentially only the main author. The /review/list api is really about getting the list of books on a user's shelf, and to that end the main author we think is enough. Another reason to do this is to reduce the size of a likely big responses, since users may have a lot of books on a shelf.

If you need more info for a particular book, definitely use book.show.


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