# Goodreads

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/goodreads/  
**Website:** https://www.goodreads.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 24.0 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 24.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 18.2 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 35.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |
| Access Clarity | 34.2 |

## Agent readiness — 8.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## Security (2)

- **Goodreads Authentication** — openIdConnect/oauth1 · 3 schemes
- **Goodreads Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Consumer, Books, Reading, Social Network, Recommendations, Reviews, Amazon

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/goodreads/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.