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message 1: by Nick (last edited Mar 18, 2014 06:16AM) (new)

Nick (nickab) | 1 comments Hello.
With https://www.goodreads.com/book/isbn?f... its possible to obtain an iframe with widget of most popular reviews.
API returns iframe that has styling that does not fit good with iOS app, I think it would be better to display reviews natively or at least with different styling.

So is there a way to obtain content of, for example, 5 top most poplar reviews for book to display them in an app as table view and not as iframe.
If there is no such way, then is it OK to request iframe content and parse it to restyle it so that it fits app design while maintaining proper links to full reviews and indicating that the reviews are taken from good reeds ("Reviews from Goodreads.com").


message 2: by Ettore (new)

Ettore Pasquini Hey Nick,
let me circle back to you about the getting the top 5 reviews of a book without using the review widget.
Regarding the widget itself, sure, being HTML you can style it however you want to make it look better in a UIWebView.


message 3: by Ettore (new)

Ettore Pasquini Hi Nick, sorry it took some time to get back to you.

To you original question about getting reviews without using the iframe solution: Can you please email support@goodreads.com explaining your use case? They will take it from there.


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