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davidfor · 12-13-2015, 01:39 AM

I doubt adding the dash to the end of the URL will really help. I think it is more likely that when the blocking is happening, the Goodreads site thinks this is different URL. I would expect that it could get blocked and then the URL without the dash would work. Or you would need two dashes. You could automate this, try it and if there was a 403, add the dash and try that. I don't like that as there is reason that Goodreads has blocked the URL and we probably should not sidestep that

But, are people still seeing this problem? At the time it happened, there was another problem with getting related books. I was wondering if both were caused by a bad update to Goodreads.

12-13-2015, 01:39 AM	#238
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,905 Karma: 47303824 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	I doubt adding the dash to the end of the URL will really help. I think it is more likely that when the blocking is happening, the Goodreads site thinks this is different URL. I would expect that it could get blocked and then the URL without the dash would work. Or you would need two dashes. You could automate this, try it and if there was a 403, add the dash and try that. I don't like that as there is reason that Goodreads has blocked the URL and we probably should not sidestep that But, are people still seeing this problem? At the time it happened, there was another problem with getting related books. I was wondering if both were caused by a bad update to Goodreads.