Is this plugin still being supported? It's not working for me i.e. it has not picked up a single book in recent memory. I suspect something about the website has changed in the intervening years.
Here is the log for reference. For this purpose Fictiondb is the only metadata plugin I have running.
calibre, version 3.23.0
ERROR: No matches found: <p>Failed to find any books that match your search. Try making the search <b>less specific</b>. For example, use only the author's last name and a single distinctive word from the title.<p>To see the full log, click "Show details".
Running identify query with parameters:
{u'title': u'Affaire Royale', u'timeout': 30, u'authors': [u'Nora Roberts'], u'identifiers': {}}
Using plugins: FictionDB (1, 0, 10)
The log from individual plugins is below
****************************** FictionDB (1, 0, 10) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from FictionDB took 5.80200004578
Querying:
http://www.fictiondb.com/search/searchresults.php - srchtxt=multi&imprint=&styp=6&isbn=None&rating=-&title=Affaire+Royale&synopsis=&datepublished=&aut hor=Nora+Roberts&anthology=&pubgroup=
No matches found with query: u'http://www.fictiondb.com/search/searchresults.php' - 'srchtxt=multi&imprint=&styp=6&isbn=None&rating=-&title=Affaire+Royale&synopsis=&datepublished=&aut hor=Nora+Roberts&anthology=&pubgroup='
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The identify phase took 5.81 seconds
The longest time (5.802000) was taken by: FictionDB
Merging results from different sources and finding earliest publication dates from the worldcat.org service
We have 0 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds