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message 1: by Timur Babyuk (new)

Timur Babyuk | 1 comments When performing "book/show" request to get info about a book, the similar books section contains incorrect average rating info among all its similar books.

For example, the book "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)" , it has id 3.
Here's request URL: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show.x...
The book has an average rating of 4.47 (xml path: book/average_rating)

All its similar books have the same rating of 4.47 (book/similar_books/book/average_rating) and the same ratings count value of 6006841 (book/similar_books/book/ratings_count) which is incorrect.

If we check any book from the "similar books" section using the same book/show request, we will see that actual rating data differs. For example, the first Harry Potters's similarity, the book "Lord of the Flies" (id=7624) has rating 3.67 with ratings count 1901200.


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