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Re:Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing A... by heyoni on Sunday December 13, 2020 @01:31PM (#25408831)
They did the same thing with IMDb a few years ago. Their data dumps now are absolutely useless and they don’t generate any of the information themselves.
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Re:Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing A... by banana_giraffe on Sunday December 13, 2020 @04:02PM (#25410248)
And the real data is now behind AWS Data Exchange at $150k/yr.

Oh, and the old IMDB API you could pay for is gone (or, gone soon), and some of the features it provided are gone permanently.

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Re:Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing A... by whymauri on Sunday December 13, 2020 @02:15PM (#25409214)
It's a moat for Amazon. That simple.
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