Adding new site for metadata

[donMaranzano]

Hi Sirs,

I want to add a specifin online book store to calibre to be use as metadata. How can I do that? Thank you in advance.

[cerda]

You have to write your own metadata download plugin. To do that you have to know Python (programming language).
Finally you can take a look at source of any / all plugins of this type ...

[donMaranzano]

It's not for me......

[DoctorOhh]

Welcome to Mobileread.

Originally Posted by donMaranzano

I want to add a specifin online book store to calibre to be use as metadata. How can I do that? Thank you in advance.

Aside from writing your own plugin there are many metadata source plugins for various stores already written. Go to the Index of plugins sticky thread and scroll down to Metadata Source Plugins to read about all of the options already available to you. If you find something you want to install go to Preferences - Plugins - Get new plugins and simply install the plugins you wish to use.

If you don't find what you want you can go to the Plugin ideas... add yours here sticky thread and suggest that creating a plugin for the store you want to use for metadata download would be a good idea. Maybe someone will have the interest and the time to create a plugin for it.

Additionally if you are new to these forums I would suggest you review the titles of the sticky posts at the top of each calibre forum. There is a great deal of information in these sticky threads that you may find valuable as you proceed using calibre.

[donMaranzano]

Thank you.