Goodreads Developers discussion

hi all,

is there a way to get quotes from a specific author/book? had a look at api documentation but all i found was a method to add quotes to the database.

thanks,

jan

Not yet - but we can put it on the todo list. To help us prioritize, what are you hoping to build?

and:
On a scale from 1-10 how awesome will it be?


:)

i thought it'd be nice to have some app (screensaver, widget, etc) display random quotes from your favourite authors. or maybe a twitter bot which sends you daily, personalised quotes. that would be awesome.

We do have a widget that does that (on widgets tab of my account page). We also have an RSS feed of each users quotes that may suffice (look for rss icon on my quotes page).

hmm... no, i don't really want to read the quotes i've already added to the system, i want to see quotes i don't know yet, but from authors i like (which can easily be queried via the api).

Bump. I'd like to see a quotes api call for this reason, too.

Chiming in -- would also be interested in this! If one could get quotes by ISBN it would be great.

Also chiming in - definitely want this.

Sorry, at the moment we don't have plans to support that.

I wish this feature wa available :(

+1. Please make this available.

+1. I would love that too. Please consider it.

Guys, please consider this :)

Hey!

I'd seen this a couple of weeks ago and I wanted to build something of the sort for myself. So, I went ahead and made a very raw version of something that can get top quotes using the existing API methods.

Here's a link to the same. I really want to extend this and make it clean and all. Will try and do that when I have some time. Also, if anyone wants to work on building this(or something along the lines) further, I would love to join!

Hope this helps anyone who is interested.

https://github.com/mon95/Goodreads-Qu...

(This was done with a little bit of tweaking of code found here:
https://github.com/sefakilic/goodreads)

Sree wrote: "Hey!

I'd seen this a couple of weeks ago and I wanted to build something of the sort for myself. So, I went ahead and made a very raw version of something that can get top quotes using the existi..."

Good work!

@Matt Thank you so much!

Sree wrote: "Hey!

I'd seen this a couple of weeks ago and I wanted to build something of the sort for myself. So, I went ahead and made a very raw version of something that can get top quotes using the existi..."

@Sree - Thanks for sharing. I've started with a very similar project/exercise, and may be extending it. Will contact you for the same soon.

I wish this feature wa available soon :(

Yeah, I too wish the same.

When I look at the webpages, for example, for humor (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/...), I can only see 3000 quotes, although the website says there are 31526 of them. Are all the quotes not accessible?

Quotes would perhaps be the best resource you can expose in the API. Please (re) consider this. I'll be ready to pay for using it.

+1 for this feature!

+1 for this feature!!

+1, this would be a great feature.

+1 Goodreads has one of the best collections of quotes - it would be awesome to have this feature!

+1 as h*ck

+11

it's almost 10 years since my original post. oh, wait, what's that?
(watches tumbleweed disappear on the horizon)

We want this feature! +100

Definitely would love this!

+100

Hi everyone,

I have constructed a RESTful API using the resources provided by GoodReads quote search engine. You can query by title, author, or tag through simple URL endpoints and receive JSON data back in your AJAX GET request. Further documentation of how to use the API on the landing page below.

The API is open and needs no key, so have at it! Hope this provides at least a temporary solution for everyone here.

https://goodquotesapi.herokuapp.com/#...

up for the request of api.

Trey wrote: "Hi everyone,

I have constructed a RESTful API using the resources provided by GoodReads quote search engine. You can query by title, author, or tag through simple URL endpoints and receive JSON da..."

Thanks for this, I'm working on a little iOS app that displays quotes then lets you do some stuff with them. Your API filled in a gap in Goodread's API for me. Hopefully it's only temporary (I'd like to be able to get the book's IDs back for proper integration with the rest of Goodreads API like an official solution would have) but it does what I need for now!

My progress so far if anyone is interested, it's still early days though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-tfG...

Trey wrote: "Hi everyone,

I have constructed a RESTful API using the resources provided by GoodReads quote search engine. You can query by title, author, or tag through simple URL endpoints and receive JSON da..."

You rock. Quick and dirty python module implementation: https://gitlab.com/modle13/goodreads-...

Trey wrote: "Hi everyone,

I have constructed a RESTful API using the resources provided by GoodReads quote search engine. You can query by title, author, or tag through simple URL endpoints and receive JSON da..."


Great work! I tried to access this but I'm getting a page saying " Application Error, An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. If you are the application owner, check your logs for details. You can do this from the Heroku CLI with the command", has this been taken down?

Trey wrote: "Hi everyone,

I have constructed a RESTful API using the resources provided by GoodReads quote search engine. You can query by title, author, or tag through simple URL endpoints and receive JSON da..."

Hey man the heroku application seems to be down as mentioned by Dee

A working API to pull quotes has been a frequently-requested feature for over a decade, now. Come on, guys. Please add this simple feature. It's not even especially difficult to implement.

Also, a comment for Trey: I absolutely love your API, but it doesn't seem to work for fetching pages after the first one (at least, not for searching quotes by tag). I'm happy to submit a pull request to fix this, if you can link me to the repo!

Crates have you managed to get Trey's api to work?

I'd really like there to be:

book.quotes - get all quotes related to a specific book, with some optional params such as count
author.quotes - get all quotes attributed to an author, with some optional params such as count and page
search.quotes - search quotes with a fuzzy search, similar to book and author search
quotes.list - get quotes by a tag or description, possibly with fuzzy search as optional param

UP for this request! It would be great for a couple of projects

chipping in ... need this API

Would really like this.