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message 1: by Abhijit (new)

Abhijit | 1 comments if you search by ISBN 9789386313461 on goodreads, there is an image associated with this book, but the API response came without the image.

We are using https://www.goodreads.com/book/isbn/9...

API response:

{
"id"=>"38517152",
"title"=>"Press Start! #01 Game Over a Branches Book: Super Rabbit Boy!",
"isbn"=>"9386313464",
"isbn13"=>"9789386313461",
"asin"=>"",
"kindle_asin"=>"",
"marketplace_id"=>"",
"country_code"=>"IN",
"image_url"=>"https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophot...",
"small_image_url"=>"https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophot...",
"publication_year"=>nil,
"publication_month"=>nil,
"publication_day"=>nil,
"publisher"=>nil,
"language_code"=>nil,
"is_ebook"=>"false",
"description"=>"update",
"work"=>{
"id"=>50725354,
"books_count"=>12,
"best_book_id"=>30254993,
"reviews_count"=>1536,
"ratings_sum"=>2733,
"ratings_count"=>658,
"text_reviews_count"=>89,
"original_publication_year"=>2017,
"original_publication_month"=>nil,
"original_publication_day"=>nil,
"original_title"=>nil,
"original_language_id"=>nil,
"media_type"=>"book",
"rating_dist"=>"5:325|4:166|3:119|2:39|1:9|total:658",
"desc_user_id"=>104823,
"default_chaptering_book_id"=>nil,
"default_description_language_code"=>nil,
"work_uri"=>"kca://work/amzn1.gr.work.v1.BueukqGlChB3Tw89RC-4kQ"
},
"average_rating"=>"4.15",
"num_pages"=>"",
"format"=>"",
"edition_information"=>"",
"ratings_count"=>"1",
"text_reviews_count"=>"1",
"url"=>"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...",
"link"=>"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...",
"authors"=>{
"author"=>{
"id"=>"4899479",
"name"=>"Thomas Flintham",
"role"=>nil,
"image_url"=>"\nhttps://images.gr-assets.com/authors/...",
"small_image_url"=>"\nhttps://images.gr-assets.com/authors/...",
"link"=>"https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...",
"average_rating"=>"4.32",
"ratings_count"=>"3911",
"text_reviews_count"=>"347"
}
},


message 2: by Steven (new)

Steven | 1 comments Came to try find out why this is happening also, all the books seem to have an image associated but the XML API returns a nophoto URL for many of the books.


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