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Add review API not working

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message 1: by David (new)

David Robins (dbrobins) | 24 comments Up until very recently I could add a review for a book using http://www.goodreads.com/review.xml (passing parameters book_id, shelf, review[rating:], review[review:] (the text), and review[read_at:]). This suddenly stopped working (and is no longer documented on http://www.goodreads.com/api): it returns "500 server error" (logging in, getting the "current user" name, and looking up the book to get its Goodreads ID still work fine).

There is also no replacement/equivalent listed in the API - no way to add a book review. There is a way to update an existing review, but that doesn't work here since a new review has no review ID.

Please fix the http://www.goodreads.com/review.xml API (and document it).


message 2: by Michael (new)

Michael Economy (michaeleconomy) Sorry about that, I'll look into it promptly.


message 3: by Ben (new)

Ben Weiner (lostinpatterns) | 24 comments This will be fixed in the next release.


message 4: by David (new)

David Robins (dbrobins) | 24 comments You guys are quick with releases (Agile methods?): it works now. Much appreciated.


message 5: by Ken-ichi (new)

Ken-ichi | 4 comments Sometimes we can be TOO agile... and by "we" I of course mean "I".


message 6: by Michael (new)

Michael Economy (michaeleconomy) no qa department = lots of releases

I think thats part of the agile methodology, the customer does the qa?


message 7: by David (new)

David Robins (dbrobins) | 24 comments I might apply to work with you guys if you weren't in Cali. Seems like an interesting site to build and run.


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