must be logged in for search.books complete results?

[Manuel]

If I call this API link when I'm logged in I get results complete of publisher, num.pages and other infos

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

If I call without being logged i get only few informations.

Why?

[Ettore]

Hmm, I don't see this issue. E.g.:

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

gives me num_pages and publisher for most books. Maybe it's book related? Can you paste your exact search query?

[Manuel]

If I am logged in I get the publisher but if I make the same request via PHP cURL I can't get those infos

[Manuel]

I just figured out that missing info like description and publisher are under the tag instead of being of public domain :(

[Michael]

hmmmm..... sounds like a bug.

[Manuel]

To get those info I need to use the API to "Get the reviews for a book given a Goodreads book id"

This sounds like not well designed mode to give books info. Why I have to do 2 queries to get *only the book's metadata* but I'm not interested about the reviews?

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[Michael]

It's not a common use case unfortunately. We'll work at improving, but perhaps you should check out Amazon's data api? That might fit your needs a bit better.


We've got a lot of data from amazon and barnes and noble that we're not allowed to reditribute. We're trying to source as much data directly from the publishers, but thats not a fast process.

[Michael]

Google books also has a public api!

[Manuel]

thanks for reply.
i'm already using google books api, but i would like to interface my app with goodreads functions too, the smartest way possible

[Michael]

Ok, Just as a heads up, it's likely gonna be a few weeks before we can look into this issue a little more deeply.