Goodreads Developers discussion

Hi

I know this is not currently possible but would like to add it as a future feature request.

Could an API call be added that returns statistics on the ratings of a particular book ?

I am thinking of breaking the ratings down by age/ sex/ location, time of rating and whether the rating was from a goodreads author or not.
The time of day I realise maybe impossible if that was never saved in the original code.

The reason I would like this is I don't believe all ratings are equal. For example if a book had a general 4.5 rating and a rating of 2 from authors I would be more careful about accepting the original rating. Same if 80% of 5 star ratings came from an age group very different from mine.

It could also help determine fake voting. Ie if lots of votes are coming from a particular country within a short space of time.

I am sure you are well aware that you can pay a few dollars for thousands of youtube votes etc
and while I have no reason to believe this occurs here it would be nice to have confirmation.

This sort of thing is available for youtube/ imdb and I have found it very useful.

Thanks for any consideration.

Thanks for the idea!

Can you link the relevant youtube and imdb apis? I'd be interested how they handle this.

The youtube analytics API is here
https://developers.google.com/youtube...

There is a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU08z...) I watched recently that shows some of the pages one can use to analyse data as a youtube content creator. Watch from about 4 minutes in. May be a little over the top for Goodreads.


With imdb I am only used to looking at the frontend stats page which I find useful.

Ie
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120737/r...

This has a fairly good breakdown. I imagine Goodreads could have something similar listing author votes and staff votes. With that film there are not too many outliers but other films often show an age / gender imbalance. Nothing wrong with that of course but it can make one cautious about accepting ratings when deciding whether to read a book.
The stats that IMDB provide on this page is probably enough for Goodreads to display or pass back from an API call.

Thanks

Cool! Thanks.


We'll continue to evaluate this as we develop and evolve our product offering.