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message 1: by Glenn (last edited Feb 09, 2019 12:24PM) (new)

Glenn (glennmen) | 2 comments Hi I would like to embed basic book info (cover, title, author, rating) in a website without needing any user info or API keys. Only show public information that is already visible on the website.

Some more technical information, I want to make a Goodreads tag on the DEV.to blog forum so that people can easily share interesting books with each other. In order to do that I need to have a public url that I can use in an iframe in the blog post.

Something like this would show a nice clean embed of the book Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire:
{% goodreads 0439139600 %}
This code is what the user writes in the editor for his blog posts, the backend will convert that to an iframe with the correct embed Goodreads url.

For example this is a url that is being used for a SoundCloud embed, as you can see it is nice and compact and shows the most useful info:
https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=...


message 2: by Ravi (new)

Ravi (goodreadscomuncertainp) | 17 comments Remember seeing something of this sort ....dig forum for more info...


message 3: by Glenn (new)

Glenn (glennmen) | 2 comments Ravi wrote: "Remember seeing something of this sort ....dig forum for more info..."

Of course I searched the "Goodreads Developers" forum first before making this post, I even did a general search on Google in the hopes of finding a related post about my question on another platform.
After doing some more "digging" here I am still not able to find anything related to my issue, so it would be more helpful if you could share where you have seen this before Ravi instead of being so toxic.


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