sort order and review date for reviews by isbn

[Paul]

Hi, there's 2 things I'd like to see added to your api for book reviews by ISBN:

1. a review_date so I can see the date the person added their review of the book
2. a sort order parameter, e.g. sort by reviewid, review_date (when you add it).

Thanks!
Paul

[Michael]

Adding date added and date updated soon,

the 'sort' parameter should already work, valid values are:
date - date added
weight - best reviews first (default)

[Paul]

Thanks Michael. Please post here when you've added the date_added parameter.

[Michael]

should be up now

[Michael]

opps!
forgot to check my file in and it did not make the release.


should be up on tuesday or sooner

[Paul]

Hi Michael, I just looked, but I don't see a date_added node in results from the http://www.goodreads.com/book/isbn api. There has been a read_at node that looks like it is only populated if the person specified when they read the book, but I don't see a date for when the review itself was added. That's what I meant to say in my prior message (not the sort parameter). Please post here when you've added a date_added node to your http://www.goodreads.com/book/isbn api.

Thanks,
Paul

[Paul]

Just saw your comment about not making it into the release. Thanks!

[Shweta]

Hi,
How do i increase the length of the review being displayed using the api? I wish to show the complete review by each user. I have tried updating the min_length field but doesn't seem to work. Please help.
http://www.goodreads.com/api/reviews_...

[Michael]

We don't give out the complete reviews.

[Bryan]

Does book.show_by_isbn have a sort option? I would like to get the top 5 highest rated/most voted for reviews.

I have tried adding the sort=weight parameter but did not get the desired results.

[Michael]

Bryan, the default sort is 'goodreads sort' which should be best reviews first. Otherwise, we don't have any more indexes on that table, so we can't really add any more sorts.

[Michael]

other sorts allowed are sort=newest and sort=oldest

[Swanand]

I have tried the sort=newest and sort=date they don't sort correctly from what i see. (the results were sorted by review_id which is fine, but the added date seems to be sorted ASC in place of DESC).

Secondly when I use the above parameters, the review body is empty

Am I missing something?

[Michael]

If you only want text reviews i think you can pass in &text_only=true

sort=date doesn't work i think, only sort=newest and sort=oldest, other wise you get the default "goodreads" sort.

Swanand: can you give me an example request url?

[Swanand]

Hi Michael : I think I got it. The issue was a lot of the newer reviews did not have any text in them

Can you explain a little more what the &text_only=true parameter does ? will it ignore the reviews that have no text?

[Michael]

Swanand wrote: "will it ignore the reviews that have no text? "

yup, thats pretty much it.