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message 1: by Ahollander (new)

Ahollander | 2 comments When I use the "author_url" method, I often get the wrong author returned to me. It seems that these are not goodreads authors necessarily. sometimes they are illustrators or translators.

Often goodreads api is returning J.R.R. Tolkien:
Examples:
https://www.goodreads.com/api/author_...
https://www.goodreads.com/api/author_...
?key=
This happens for 14 of my authors.
Similar results return
Suzanne Collins
For example:
https://www.goodreads.com/api/author_...
?key=


message 2: by Jeff (new)

Jeff (jeffwong) | 75 comments Mod
Hi, from what I can tell this looks like a bug. I've filed it to our team and hopefully someone can look into it.

Thanks for the report and sorry for the inconvenience.


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