<story><title>Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys</title><url>https://joealcorn.co.uk/blog/2020/goodreads-retiring-API</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kashyapc</author><text>I recently discovered the &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openlibrary.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openlibrary.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; by The Internet Archive.  On the face of it, their &amp;quot;about&amp;quot; page[1] sounds appealing (not least because it resonates with my open source values):&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;One web page for every book ever published. It&amp;#x27;s a lofty but achievable goal.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;To build Open Library, we need hundreds of millions of book records, a wiki interface, and lots of people who are willing to contribute their time and effort to building the site.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;To date, we have gathered over 20 million records from a variety of large catalogs as well as single contributions, with more on the way.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Open Library is an open project: the software is open, the data are open, the documentation is open, and we welcome your contribution. Whether you fix a typo, add a book, or write a widget--it&amp;#x27;s all welcome. We have a small team of fantastic programmers who have accomplished a lot, but we can&amp;#x27;t do it alone!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;---&lt;p&gt;They also seem to provide an API[2].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openlibrary.org&amp;#x2F;about&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openlibrary.org&amp;#x2F;about&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openlibrary.org&amp;#x2F;developers&amp;#x2F;api&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openlibrary.org&amp;#x2F;developers&amp;#x2F;api&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mekarpeles</author><text>For anyone who wishes Open Library was even better, please join one of our weekly community calls @ 11:30am Pacific.&lt;p&gt;For an invite, please send me an email at mek@archive.org or go to:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openlibrary.org&amp;#x2F;volunteer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openlibrary.org&amp;#x2F;volunteer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;# APIs &amp;amp; Data Dumps&lt;p&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openlibrary.org&amp;#x2F;developers&amp;#x2F;api&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openlibrary.org&amp;#x2F;developers&amp;#x2F;api&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openlibrary.org&amp;#x2F;dev&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;api&amp;#x2F;books&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openlibrary.org&amp;#x2F;dev&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;api&amp;#x2F;books&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openlibrary.org&amp;#x2F;developers&amp;#x2F;dumps&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openlibrary.org&amp;#x2F;developers&amp;#x2F;dumps&lt;/a&gt; monthly data dumps for if you need bulk access and the APIs are not enough.&lt;p&gt;# Spread the word&lt;p&gt;Also, if you want to help raise awareness of this resource, please help us get the word out on twitter!&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;openlibrary&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1338185940469051392&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;openlibrary&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1338185940469051392&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;2. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;openlibrary&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1338186553915367425&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;openlibrary&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1338186553915367425&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;# Issues&lt;p&gt;Thank you all for helping us discover some issues with our goodreads importer and search (recently migrated to Python3 + thanks @cdrini et al for these fast bug fixes! If you notice an problem, please help open an issue here:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;internetarchive&amp;#x2F;openlibrary&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;new&amp;#x2F;choose&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;internetarchive&amp;#x2F;openlibrary&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;new&amp;#x2F;ch...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;# Learn More&lt;p&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;details&amp;#x2F;openlibrary-tour-2020&amp;#x2F;openlibrary.ogv&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;details&amp;#x2F;openlibrary-tour-2020&amp;#x2F;openlibrar...&lt;/a&gt; if you want to learn more about Open Library, here&amp;#x27;s a short intro vid.&lt;p&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;internetarchive&amp;#x2F;openlibrary&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;internetarchive&amp;#x2F;openlibrary&lt;/a&gt; if you want to follow on github.</text></comment>
<story><title>Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys</title><url>https://joealcorn.co.uk/blog/2020/goodreads-retiring-API</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kashyapc</author><text>I recently discovered the &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openlibrary.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openlibrary.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; by The Internet Archive.  On the face of it, their &amp;quot;about&amp;quot; page[1] sounds appealing (not least because it resonates with my open source values):&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;One web page for every book ever published. It&amp;#x27;s a lofty but achievable goal.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;To build Open Library, we need hundreds of millions of book records, a wiki interface, and lots of people who are willing to contribute their time and effort to building the site.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;To date, we have gathered over 20 million records from a variety of large catalogs as well as single contributions, with more on the way.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Open Library is an open project: the software is open, the data are open, the documentation is open, and we welcome your contribution. Whether you fix a typo, add a book, or write a widget--it&amp;#x27;s all welcome. We have a small team of fantastic programmers who have accomplished a lot, but we can&amp;#x27;t do it alone!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;---&lt;p&gt;They also seem to provide an API[2].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openlibrary.org&amp;#x2F;about&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openlibrary.org&amp;#x2F;about&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openlibrary.org&amp;#x2F;developers&amp;#x2F;api&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openlibrary.org&amp;#x2F;developers&amp;#x2F;api&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jabo</author><text>Openlibrary looks pretty awesome. Thank you for sharing!&lt;p&gt;Would anyone be interested in having an instant search experience for this books dataset, like the one I built for the 2M recipes database posted on HN earlier this week: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=25365397&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=25365397&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>