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