goodreads api issue

[Ravi]

I am using goodreads api in our website to get the review count and details based on Book isbn.
I have tried it but not able to get the result and getting security error. Following thing i have tried:


error[Exception... "Failure" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame ::
https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs... :: .send :: line 5" data: no]

The restriction that you cannot access data from another server with a XMLHttpRequest can apply even if the url just implies a remote server.




Also i am attached a html file, for your reference which is not working for me. Please help me out.

As per our support team book.show_by_isbn — Get the reviews for a book given an ISBN publically available but not working for me.

Please help me out.

[Charles]

Hi Ravi,

I'm sorry to hear you're having problems. The book.isbn_to_id method appears to be working. Are you including your developer key in order to get the XML? The book response is getting returned correctly when I just tried it.

If you want to get a specific review, you can use the review.show method.

Best,
Charles

[Ravi]

We need to review the GoodReads implementation to make sure that it's displaying the correct reviews.
See this example (http://www.dk.com/uk/9780241232491-my...)
for the children's title My Little Pony
but the Reviews tab is pulling reviews from a completely different title instead - see one review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The title it's showing reviews from is this one: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
but the ISBN isn't the same at all so it's not clear why this is happening

[Feiyu]

Hi Ravi,

Could you please double check that you are using the right API with correct parameters for getting reviews?

Thank you!

[Malcolm]

Hi Feiyu,

Above, you said "The book.isbn_to_id method appears to be working.". However, I am unable to get it to work. The sample URL in the API docs also fails:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/isbn_t... key)

Was a bug introduced in the last month perhaps?

Thanks!

[Malcolm]

FWIW, the goodreads site search doesn't seem to handle ISBNs either, even though it says it does. Test ISBN: 9783593501604.

[IRDC]

What I noticed is that the search only works for the isbn that is mentioned on the edition's page. If only a isbn 13 is mentioned there the search using the isbn 10 will not yield any results.
I tried "isbn 10 OR isbn 13" but the OR operator doesn't seem to work with isbns.

[SW]

I also can't get this to work. The example url also failed for me.

Are there any workarounds? Thanks!

EDIT: never mind. I will use search to do this.

[Alvaro]

I'm having trouble with this method, I get a 404 error by using example in docs page, is that example ok?

[Mike]

Different but related. I'm calling the book.show API using this format:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

But I keep getting invalid API key errors. I reset my developer key and still getting the same error.

Appreciate your help, thanks!

[Charles]

@Ravi, apologies for the very late reply. If you use the isbn_to_id method like this: https://www.goodreads.com/book/isbn_t...

then that will return the book ID. Then you can use the book/show endpoint to get the book information:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Best regards,
Charles

[Powder]

Hi Charles, seems like the line above is broken:

When running

https://www.goodreads.com/book/isbn_t...

with my own API key, I get an empty response

[Jeff]

@Powder,

Are you running this in your browser? When I run the URL in Chrome, I get an error because the server returns the book ID bare, not in any XML document.

However, when I look in the source of error page, I see the book ID.

This might work in your own code if you just look at the response contents directly.

The documentation says " Response contains IDs without any markup. "

[Powder]

Thanks Jeff, you are right!
I have never worked with an API which did not return something which can be displayed in the browser before…