Goodreads

Goodreads is the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations, where members catalog and shelve books, rate and review them, track their reading progress, join reader groups, and receive personalized recommendations. Owned by Amazon since 2013, it originated as a portfolio company of True Ventures. Goodreads formerly operated a public developer API (XML over HTTP, authenticated with a developer key and OAuth 1.0a) that powered many third-party reading apps, but on 2020-12-08 it stopped issuing new developer keys and began retiring the program; there is no current public API. Goodreads still exposes a live OpenID Connect discovery document for account sign-in. This profile is enriched by the API Evangelist pipeline.

Goodreads is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Books, Reading, and Social Network.

Goodreads’ developer surface includes API reference, documentation, support, engineering blog, signup flow, authentication, and 10 more developer resources.

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21.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 14/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

AccessSelf serve

0 APIs

CompanyConsumerBooksReadingSocial NetworkRecommendationsReviewsAmazon

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 21.1/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 6.5 / 20

Commercial Clarity 6.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 1.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 14/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

APIReference

APIReference

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Conformance

Conformance

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Deprecation

Deprecation

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: goodreads
name: Goodreads
description: Goodreads is the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations, where members catalog and shelve
  books, rate and review them, track their reading progress, join reader groups, and receive personalized recommendations.
  Owned by Amazon since 2013, it originated as a portfolio company of True Ventures. Goodreads formerly operated a public
  developer API (XML over HTTP, authenticated with a developer key and OAuth 1.0a) that powered many third-party reading apps,
  but on 2020-12-08 it stopped issuing new developer keys and began retiring the program; there is no current public API.
  Goodreads still exposes a live OpenID Connect discovery document for account sign-in. This profile is enriched by the API
  Evangelist pipeline.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/goodreads/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/icons/goodreads_icon_100x100-4a7d81b31d932cfc0be621ee15a14e70.png
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- true-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Books
- Reading
- Social Network
- Recommendations
- Reviews
- Amazon
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.goodreads.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://www.goodreads.com/api
- type: Documentation
  url: https://help.goodreads.com/s/article/Does-Goodreads-support-the-use-of-APIs
- type: Support
  url: https://help.goodreads.com/s/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.goodreads.com/blog
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.goodreads.com/user/sign_up
- type: Login
  url: https://www.goodreads.com/user/sign_in
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.goodreads.com/about/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.goodreads.com/about/privacy
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/goodreads-authentication.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/goodreads-well-known.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/goodreads-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: https://help.goodreads.com/s/article/Does-Goodreads-support-the-use-of-APIs
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/goodreads-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/goodreads-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/goodreads-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence