Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys

Re:Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing A... by kradeelav on Sunday December 13, 2020 @02:11PM (#25409173)

Thank you so much for work you do with OL! I'm a goodreads librarian and would love to import my data/lists/etc over, but whenever I try to access (https://openlibrary.org/account/import/goodreads), it gives me a 'method not allowed' error.

(granted, running on older versions of firefox, but still thought it might be a bug you would like to be aware of.)

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Re:Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing A... by mekarpeles on Sunday December 13, 2020 @02:37PM (#25409410)

<3 Also, Open Library has a librarian program.

If you use the https://openlibrary.org/volunteer page and click the Librarian link, this will send an email to Lisa, our head community librarian and we can help you access our slack channel and request access to our librarian features. We also have an optional weekly call for folks to raise issues and questions (e.g. "I want book series!")

More about librarianship @ Open Library: https://openlibrary.org/about/lib

If you hit any issues with this process, feel invited to send me an email to [email protected].

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Re:Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing A... by mekarpeles on Sunday December 13, 2020 @07:24PM (#25411954)

Thanks kradeelav! The "method not allowed" is happening because this page requires login first.

Ideally, it should probably bring you to the login page and (once you login) bring you back to the import page.

We'll see about creating an issue for this, thanks!

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