{"id":31034,"date":"2020-12-15T17:02:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T22:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31034"},"modified":"2020-12-15T17:02:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T22:02:41","slug":"shutting-down-the-goodreads-api","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/15\/shutting-down-the-goodreads-api\/","title":{"rendered":"Shutting Down the Goodreads API"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.stephanieawilkinson.com\/posts\/2020-12-10-yonderbook-and-goodreads\/\">Stephanie Wilkinson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blog.stephanieawilkinson.com\/posts\/2020-12-10-yonderbook-and-goodreads\/\"><p>In 2013, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2013\/apr\/02\/amazon-purchase-goodreads-stuns-book-industry\">Amazon bought Goodreads<\/a>. Many in the reader community were worried about what Amazon would do with its new acquisition, but they retained the status quo for a while. Until now, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>They&rsquo;ve given notice that they will shut down their APIs, effectively shutting down outside interaction with Goodreads data. In addition, the developer terms and conditions don&rsquo;t allow storing of any Goodreads data, so users won&rsquo;t be able to pull their data from Goodreads for use in other arenas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/goodreads-discontinues-api\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/goodreads-discontinues-api\/\">\n<p>Seems pretty bold for Amazon, which owns Goodreads, to further silo user data as it is being investigated for criminal antitrust violations.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephanie Wilkinson: In 2013, Amazon bought Goodreads. Many in the reader community were worried about what Amazon would do with its new acquisition, but they retained the status quo for a while. Until now, apparently. They&rsquo;ve given notice that they will shut down their APIs, effectively shutting down outside interaction with Goodreads data. In addition, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-12-15T22:02:44Z","apple_news_api_id":"b6bad790-e88a-4993-a650-2b1325b278d1","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-12-15T22:02:45Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AtrrXkOiKSZOmUCsTJbJ40Q","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19,1451,96,50],"class_list":["post-31034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-sunset","tag-web","tag-webapi"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31035,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31034\/revisions\/31035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}