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I gotta say, it sucks that Goodreads has no public API. 🫤 It would be nice to be able to share on Warpcast, but without an API I can’t imagine a way. Bummer. All that data contributed by the public, locked away by Amazon. 😡

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Nope. “APIs disabled until further notice”, updated in 2022. Another bait and switch for a bunch of public contributors.

I think LibraryThing has pretty solid APIs

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It’s sad, yes. I wouldn’t mind Amazon owning Goodreads as long as there was API access. They did have it at one time. 

I know of no other comparable database of book information. It’s been added to by librarians (including me) for… well, longer than I can calculate. 15 or 20 years?

my heart sank a bit reading this, 
thank you for bringing this into the collective awareness... 

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What does “unofficial APIs” mean? And how do you find them? I read their roadmap where APIs are discussed by users as “must have” in order to leave Goodreads (they must have old api keys), and it’s labelled “long term”. One concern is cost, presumably for increased traffic.

StoryGraph has some unofficial apis. IMO StoryGraph is better than Goodreads and not owned by amazon