Missing book data in list by author

[Nick]

I'm curious if this is a bug or by design, but when querying an author's books I sometimes don't get a cover photo or publish date.

An example is Poisonwell by Jeff Wheeler.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

The page shows both the cover and the date it was released but the API returns this:

title>Poisonwell (Whispers from Mirrowen, #3)
image_url>https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophot...
small_image_url>https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophot...
large_image_url />
publication_day />
publication_year />
publication_month />

Is this expected? Is there another way I should be querying for books by an author that contains the missing information?

edit: had to remove the opening < to stop it from being parsed as HTML.

[Michael]

We probably don't have permission to syndicate that book data. Our API honors our data permissions. Sorry about that!

[Nick]

Even the publish date? That's rough. :/

[Michael]

yeah :(

[Nick]

Ok, I appreciate the quick response. I'll have to find another data source to use with GR I guess, because not having a publish date is a deal-breaker for my app functionality.

[Michael]

Amazon's product data API might be your best bet. Good luck.