Get a list of a user's favorite authors

[Eldon]

I was looking at the API and it does not look like there is a way to query goodreads for a list of a user's favorite authors.

Am I missing something?

[Alexis]

In the api that returns a user's info "user.show", the XML output includes a field called "favorite_authors".

[Eldon]

Cheers for that! Guess I just did not dig deep enough.

[Heather]

I have noticed that the "favorite_authors" XML only includes the first 6 authors, regardless of how many are actually on the user's "favorites" list (visible in its entirety here: https://www.goodreads.com/favorite_au...)

Has anyone else experienced this? Is this by-design as an API limitation?

[Johan]

I think it's by design. as it seems to be purely built for one of the goodreads widgets. I've had to work around it by pulling all reviews from a user and then building a distinct collection of authors.

[Heather]

Thanks, Johan, I guess I'll need to store a local list and have the authors added to it via my app.