goodreads-api

A quick PHP wrapper class for the GoodReads API.

Disclaimer

This is something I hacked together quickly, it isn't beautiful, and as you'll see I only implemented one API endpoint (the only one I needed). However it's a good starting point, and from a cursory glance implementing other methods wouldn't be particularly tricky. Caching support is also baked in.

Please also bear in mind the GoodReads API itself isn't great (some methods for example only support XML!), you can read/comment on that in their forums.

Requirements

PHP 5.3.x or higher
cURL
GoodReads API key

Available methods

author.show
reviews.list
user.show

Usage

Include class
Initialise wrapper $api = new GoodReads('PUT YOUR API KEY HERE', 'writable directory for caching');
Call a method $data = $api->getLatestReads(4148474);

License

Simplified BSD (included).

Changes

2016-05-13 Victor Davis

Added LIBXML_NOCDATA arg to simplexml_load_string to capture CDATA in returned XML
Added 2 endpoints: author.show & user.show