GoodReads: old books
Technical ·Tuesday May 12, 2009 @ 22:17 EDT (link)
I did some more hacking on my perl GoodReads interface, making it easier to add a book read at an unknown (null) date; I have a lot of old books I'd eventually like to catalog in my system and on GoodReads. Had to alter my database schema and make allowances for null/undef/false parameters a few places that (intentionally) didn't used to allow it.
The GoodReads API seems more stable now; it used to have a lot more random OAuth failures; I haven't seen one for a while now. It may even be safe to call the GoodReads add from my web-based update code, rather than (for example) queuing a request to a daemon to ensure that the data isn't lost if GoodReads' API fails.
