3/25/2023 0 Comments Audible.com my library![]() You could potentially be placing GR in legal trouble or at the very least risking your own account here so if it were me I'd at least make contact with a GR administrator before proceeding so as to avoid putting myself or the site in legal trouble. I would be prepared to be money that you providing such a tool for other people to populate data on GR is definitely outside what is allowed. you) is more permissible legally than GR using the API directly without an agreement in place. I doubt that using the API via an intermediary (i.e. In short GR was not prepared to do all the things Amazon demanded of it in return for use of its API so GR severed their ties and the result is that data here does not get populated via the Amazon API (there are other sources of book data such as World Cat and so on and that is what GR now uses instead of Amazon) This happened over 12 months ago and there are pages and pages worth of posts and information about it all - at the very least I would look it up if I were you (you'll need to visit the goodreads librarian group for details). ![]() Of course it would be quicker for it to be done this way but GR is specifically excluded from using Amazon's API to populate data on this site. My next step is to try to script something to get the isbn from the asin, but this is going to be a whole lot more complicated. It took me about 10 minutes to write a quick script (another computer-scientist here) to scrape my audible library and get all of the asin's, but I tried several different import file formats and none of them worked, though simply replacing asin's with isbn's did work, so I know it wasn't the files or any other error in the way I was importing, it was simply that asin's aren't acceptable as isbn replacements.Īlso for the record, of the first 10 asin's I tried even in the search box of Goodreads, only 3 were found, while the other 7 books were easily found through titles, so clearly Goodreads is missing many asin's from its database. John, thank you for your response, but unless I'm missing something, you can search for books on Goodreads using the asin, just like you can search with the title or author or whatever, but you can't use the asin in an import file to add many books at once. I've been following this thread for awhile, hoping that eventually audible/amazon/goodreads would add features that would make it possible to somehow import your audible library to goodreads, but so far still no go. I can think of many other features but I don’t want to spoil your appetite… :-) I was planning on writing (I’m a software engineer) such applications (virtual bookshelf and easy/powerful search engine) on my spare time but before starting I wanted to see if there was any interest in having such applications. It would combine the ratings of the audio books along with their paper/kindle counterparts from, and other online book vendors. It’s much better than what it used to be but I think someone could do something better and more intuitive to use. What if you could import the list of all books with one operation?Īlso, I feel that the search feature of is a bit weak. The difficulty here is that you don’t want to have to type in the dozens/100s of books currently in you ’s “My Library”. You would love to share that list of books with your friends on a site like or even have a customized application in Facebook that would act as a virtual bookshelf holding the list of books you cherish. If like me, you have been a long time user of, you have probably read/listened to dozens if not 100s of audio books.
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