Anybody else noticed that their “Library Loans” and “Library Holds” bookshelves are no longer updating? I’m just noticing it but it looks like it has been several weeks since the last synch. I tried signing in again (using the code from the Libby app) but it does not seem to have made any difference.
I can confirm this is no longer working. Libby does not have an official API, so we had to sort of reverse-engineer how it works, so there was a risk it would be fragile… That appears to have happened with a change to their API. I’ll fix it if it’s technically possible, otherwise we’ll have to remove the feature until they have a supported way to access the data.
After some more testing with my account, after I sign in with Libby again it does successfully pull in the library loans. I need to do some more testing to understand if this will keep working or start failing again later.
Tried Libby → bookshelf sync for the first time this week. I am confused about this one item:
You can also copy books from Libby into your other bookshelves such as “Want to read” or “Finished reading”.
Does this mean from the Library Loans and Library Holds lists you can move a book into (for example) “Finished Reading”? Or that there is some other way to pull items from Libby that are not currently a “hold” or a “loan”? In my case, I’d like to import my whole Libby borrowing history into Micro.blog.
Also, a note that your documentation needs an update: there’s no longer a way to pull a number from Libby on the page you state. The page you point to now asks for a number, or offers to setup a passkey for you to sync across apps (?). At the bottom of the page it asks if I’m trying to set Libby with Sonos or Android Car (something—pulling from memory on this last one). If you click one of those options, it will generate a code that worked for me to pull data into Micro.Blog. That said, it brought over one hold initially, and didn’t show anything else. Now, nearly a week later, it shows something that’s currently on loan to me, as well (that was on loan to me when I signed up). I know that’s not entirely on M.B., just a bit of feedback.
P.S. – I did read the caveat that Libby support is experimental and that there’s no public API. Noted.