Sharing my librarything catalogue

I want my colleagues to be able to search my books on librarything, but not be able to add or change anything. How do I do that.

I'm sure its on here somewhere, but I cant seem to locate the answer.

Easy! Just give them the URL: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/FSE

They cannot change or add anything unless you give them your username and password. With the URL, they can just view and search your catalog.

And if you want to narrow it to a specific collection:

On the bottom of every Your Books page is an icon labeled "Permanent Link." Select the collection you want, then click on that link and copy what appears in the address bar. Again, they can look, but not change.

All they need to know is your profile name. Your collection is available to view from your profile page.

https://www.librarything.com/catalog/FSE/allcollections

Thank you everyone. I knew it was something Easy

When I try to share my profile,clicking on the link just gives the message message "this user does't exist". Help! I know I exist - ask Descarte.

What link are you using?

https://www.librarything.com/profile/Adelaide.L.M.

That's so weird. When I use your link here, I also get "this user doesn't exist". But if I copy the link and paste it into my browser, it does work.

I'm not sure how it's possible since its the same link, but the posted link leads to an error, while clicking on your member name normally opens the page.

Using 'copy link location' on user name , I get
https://www.librarything.com/profile/Adelaide.L.M. and pasting it also opens the page. Very strange

I wonder if, because the user name has periods in it, it's creating issues with the link.

>11 gilroy:

I think you're right.

I just looked, and when I click on the link in >8 Adelaide.L.M.:, the final period does not appear in my browser bar; it apparently gets stripped out. If I then add it, I can get to the profile.

When posting in chat, the last period on the end of the URL is not included in the URL, which is why it's not going to the right place. URLs don't usually end with punctuation so it's not unusual for it to not be included. Gmail does the same thing, it's not specific to Librarything.

Your best bet might be to change your username so that it doesn't have a period on the end. At least you know that "Adelaide.L.M" without a period on the end is available!

>6 Adelaide.L.M.: >12 lilithcat: is correct. The final period in your username is getting stripped in Talk, treated as an actual period rather than as part of the link. Will add that to the list of bugs, thanks!

kristilabrie (#14):

The final period in your username is getting stripped in Talk, treated as an actual period rather than as part of the link. Will add that to the list of bugs, thanks!


Please don't. While I realize it's inconvenient for Adelaide.L.M. , it's far more common for people to have an incidental period following a URL than it is to have a URL or a username ending in a period. You're going to create hundreds of broken links if you "fix" this, even if you just do it for the special case of "periods following usernames".

>14 kristilabrie:, >15 lorax:, Changing Talk is not going to help the user if they are using a different platform to send a link, like email or social media, which also strips periods at the end of URLs.

A better fix might be to not allow usernames ending in punctuation in the first place.

Sorry, all, I should have clarified that I'm not actually making any judgment on whether to change anything about it or not but was adding it to the list of bugs (or not bugs) for developers to look at. I don't know how we handled trailing periods on actual links before, I assume there's been no change though from the responses I'm getting. In that case it'll likely stay the same!

>17 jjwilson61: Yeah, that's probably a good idea, really.

Testing in Gmail, underscores work fine but periods, exclamation points, and question marks do not.

Apologies for the thread bump. I am trying to share my collections via permanent link but everytime I paste the link into a browser Library Thing replies "No books found in this collection."

What am I missing?

url: https://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=andorinha&shelf=list&sort=...

>21 andorinha: Add "&collectionname=allcollections" before &shelf=list

Your URL does not have a selected collection - so it defaults to Your Library for people who do not have accounts and to whatever collection they saw last when they do. By adding the collection name (and pointing to all collections), it will land there for everyone.

So your new link is: https://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=andorinha&collectionname=allco...

Hi,

What Andorinha mentioned is exactly what was happening with me. I tried this fix - this link - https://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=nsa&collectionname=allcollecti.... But it says "no books found". I've only just started using the app and have scanned 5 books from my shelf. in my account, they show up alright, but unable to let someone else access that list through this link. Please advise.

Thanks,
Sheetal (username: nsa)

>23 nsa:
I copied and paste the permalink and it worked for me.

https://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=nsa&collectionname=yourlibrary...

But have people been checking it while signed out?

Signed in I see all of them, signed out only 30.

So, does the member need to change their setting for default size of the page?

I think it's just a case of waiting for the LibraryThing public server to catch up. What we see as logged-in users is different from what gets shown to visitors, and if there is some problem with the public server it can result in delays before our updates show up. So people visiting are only seeing the last cached version of the library without the newly added books.

There's another topic currently running on the same issue: https://www.librarything.com/topic/363516

>25 MarthaJeanne:

But I have only scanned and uploaded the details of 5 books... is it possible that there's another account by the name nsa and you're seeing that?

my aim, for now, is to be able to share the list of books that i will scan (around 200-300 books) and upload to librarything. I need non-account holders to be able to access that list without having to log in or create an account... i need it to be convenient for them.

would very much appreciate suggestions...

>24 2wonderY:

i shared the link with my mom and asked her to access it on her phone... and she still receives the message - "no books found in this collection". any idea what might be going wrong?

thanks

The site suffered a major attack last week and staff have been repairing and rebuilding since then. Some functions have been turned off temporarily. I don’t know if your issue is related.
See here:
https://www.librarything.com/topic/363207

Sorry you’re having difficulties and I hope they get sorted.