Get a User's Follower Count

[Craig]

Im trying to get a user's follower count and have done everything the api documentation tells me to do. But when I click on the sample code @ https://www.goodreads.com/api
Get a user's followers
I get a "not authorized" notice and no data is displayed.

Anyone help? I just need to pull something simple but seems this api call is invalid or has a bug or they haven't updated the code for this type of request.

[Ettore]

Craig, I looked into this a big and it sounds like there may be a bug here related to key-authorization. I'm going to file a ticket for further investigation.

In the mean time, have you tried using OAuth?

[Craig]

No I haven't tried OAuth, can you point me in the right direction for that? Thanks.

[Ettore]

Look at the getting started section:
https://www.goodreads.com/api/documen...

I don't know which language/environment you are using on your end, but pretty much every one has an implementation of the core oauth infrastructure.

[George]

Looks like this is still a bug.

Edit: I should add that I've got OAuth working, doesn't make a difference.

[Craig]

George what language are you using for OAuth? Im in PHP and the only example Goodreads has is Ruby on Rails. Which they SERIOUSLY need to give some examples for the other popular languages, PHP and .Net. And WordPress being 33% of websites online PHP is probably top priority! Maybe even build a WordPress plugin. Just a thought.

[George]

I'm one of the lucky ones using Rails, so unfortunately I can't help.

However, I did some digging and found the real URL to use, once you get OAuth working.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[[deleted user]]

Hey Craig,

The docs are (finally) updated to reflect the correct url's...and these requests do require OAuth, and I've updated the docs to reflect that.

Sorry for the epic delay, and thanks George for digging in and figuring that out.