Goodreads API is no more!

[treverehrfurth]

As of December 2020, Goodreads does not issue and developer API keys and has halted previously generated API keys.

How can I get this working without that?

Thank you!

[mattkatz]

Hi there - I had the same idea as these folks after the goodreads api shut down. I wrote https://gitlab.com/mattkatz/export-goodreads-library to automate downloading your goodreads lists. I'm still looking at how to automate the other parts but will update my library as I figure out more. I don't plan to do exactly what this library does, so feel free to use my code to replace the API interaction from this one.

[JahFyahh]

Any movement on this? I just found libgen, but readarr does not support it and LazyLibrarian doesnt import from goodreads. Would love an alternative way of automating my goodreads downloads.

[mattkatz]

My ultimate solution for this was to abandon goodreads. It just isn't fit for my purposes anymore. I joined bookwyrm, which is open source, federated, social and has a good community. https://joinbookwyrm.com/ It also has an open public API, so I can easily do things like find my to-read list in json format: https://bookwyrm.social/user/mttktz/books/to-read.json