Goodreads Developers discussion

I'm trying to build a small app that shows what percentage of a user's books were written by female and male authors. I can fetch reviews and get author names, but not gender. I can query a specific author and get their gender, but only one at a time. So I can't think of a way to achieve my goal without going over the 1 method call per second limit.

Am I missing something? Is it possible to do that? Thanks!

Hi Étienne,

I think you've correctly described the only way to do this with the current API. We've never had a need on our end to promote author details in listings for other objects. Sorry!

Jeff

While we typically do not want you caching goodreads data. Caching the author's gender for a few months should be OK. This would help you improve your response times over time.


Just want to make sure if the data was ever incorrect (user entered it incorrectly, or the author was transgender) there is a mechanism to update it eventually.

Thanks for your insight!

However, I could still only fetch gender information about an author once every second, correct?

Thats correct. Sorry for the inconvenience.