[Silo Request] Goodreads.com

[jamietanna]

I noticed that today @edent has made some great progress on syndicating Schema.org data to Goodreads

Finally got the code working! You can now syndicate book reviews from your blog to Goodreads.

Code: https://gitlab.com/edent/schema-to-goodreads/tree/master
Write up: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/12/add-review-to-goodreads-from-schema-markup/

Goodreads API is trash and their ISBN lookup is flaky. But it all (mostly) works!

— Terence Eden (@edent) December 26, 2019

And it seems like it may be something cool to have handled by Brid.gy so folks don't have to manage it themselves.

[snarfed]

awesome! and ooh, it's in python, even better. agreed, i'd love to see someone tackle this! @edent's work is a great first step. here are instructions for adding a new silo to bridgy.

[snarfed]

API TOS looks fine. looks like all calls support XML, and some also support JSON, either by URL path extension (.xml vs .json) and/or the format query param.

specific relevant calls:

• get comments
• post a read status
• post a review
• like something

haven't yet found a way to get individual likes aka ratings on a specific review or read status. here are examples in the UI though: review, read status.

[snarfed]

Bad news, from an email I got just now:

As of December 8th 2020, Goodreads will no longer issue new developer keys for our public developer API and plans to retire these tools.

https://help.goodreads.com/s/article/Does-Goodreads-support-the-use-of-APIs says basically the same thing.

[snarfed]

^ Closing due to this.