Search only returns one author...

[Grunthos]

Not really sure if this is a bug, and it's certainly not a high priority, but I just noticed that book.search only returns one author on multi-author books, eg.

http://www.goodreads.com/search/searc...

Whereas when I get the reviews for a book, it shows both authors (which is a fine work-around).

[Ettore]

The API was designed to return only the primary author of the book, so I wouldn't consider that a bug. I added a low-priority internal ticket just in case we decide to do something about it.

[Christopher West]

This ticket is very old but it seems the API still only includes the primary author. Is there any way we can show all the authors and their roles? One of the roles could be "Primary"

[Jeff]

You can make a subsequent call to book.show to get the list of authors for a specific book if you just want the role information.
However, it's likely you can't do this quickly for all of the search results without hitting the rate limit.

[Christopher West]

Thank you for the suggestion, unfortunately I'd like to show all authors when a user searches. Not once they have chosen a book. I'd hit the rate limit quickly.