Is it possible to get the friendship's timestamp?

[Aek]

Hi, I'm currently developing a book recommender application using GoodReads' data. So far, I can get a list of friends, followers, and followings for each user via the API methods but notice that there are no timestamp records of when the relationships between the users have been formed. Our social recommendation algorithm relies on such timestamp to make a recommendation. Is there a way to obtain the timestamps of friendships via the API?

[Michael]

Sure, can you give me an example url, so I know I'm adding it to the correct place.


Also, your project sounds cool, is there a beta up?

[Aek]

Hi, Michael. Thanks for your prompt response! Basically, each user added as friend, follower, or following should have a created datetime in the response. Something like this will be fine:



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2010-12-15T16:57:37-08:00

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2010-12-15T16:57:37-08:00

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2010-12-15T16:57:37-08:00

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The beta is not up yet as we are still in a research prototyping phase. I think the application might interest a few Goodreads users so I'll make sure the community is informed once we reach that phase.

Edit: Forgot to mention the API methods: users.friend, users.followers, users.following

[Ettore]

this is now done: not released yet, but it should be available soon.