Goodreads Developers discussion

It seems all book/show calls have no publisher data. For example, the api docs example of http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50... returns:







This data does show up in reviews. Now some of that data is available in the part, but not the publisher.

Our API can only give out data that we have rights to give out, and unfortunately a lot of our meta-data comes from Amazon or B&N and we don't have license to give it our in our API. If you need it you will have to get it straight from them as well. Unfortunate, I know!

What is odd is that the data is available when I view a review for that book. Thanks though for the info.

For books that are user provided...should this information be available or is it filtered out of all calls, regardless, due to the Amazon/BN constraints?

Nate, I think I answered your question in the other thread, but for other developers who wind up here: it's not a blanket filtering. We filter each field based on the data source for that field. If a field is supplied by a Goodreads user (librarian), or from a third party that allows us to re-distribute their data in our API, then that field should be included in our API response.