Example of creating a catalog in batch

[Willum]

Hi, I try to create some catalog files with the command line. I have tried several options, try to understand the help options given, but I can't get it work.

What I want to do is the following:

From the tag 'Detectives' create a catalog ''Detective.epub'
(In principle I want this to do for all the tags, I know I can do it manual, but it's each time around 15x the same, I know there must be an easier way)

Can someone give me an example of how this is done with the command line option ?

Thanks in Advance.

Willum

[kovidgoyal]

calibredb catalog detective.epub -s "tags:=Detective"

[Willum]

Kovidgoyal,

Kuddos !!

Thank you.

Willum

[Willum]

Hi Kovidgoyal,

New challenge:
I have tags with spaces in it... have tried the following:
calibredb catalog detective.epub -s "tags:=Korteverhalenengedichten"
calibredb catalog detective.epub -s "tags:=Korte verhalen en gedichten"
calibredb catalog detective.epub -s tags:="Korteverhalenengedichten"
calibredb catalog detective.epub -s tags:="Korte verhalen en gedichten"
All no luck....
Running out of ideas

Do I have to rename them or is there a way to use that names ?

[kovidgoyal]

Look at the search expression the GUI uses when you click on the tag and use it in the command line, properly escaping the quotes.

[Willum]

G:\My Documents\Calibre Bibliotheek>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Calibre2\calibredb" catalog "G:\My Docum
ents\Calibre Bibliotheek\Korte verhalen en gedichten.epub" -s tags:"=Korte verhalen en gedichten"
*** No Section switches specified, enabling all Sections ***
Sections: Authors, Titles, Series, Genres, Recently Added, Descriptions
genre_tags_dict: {u'Detectives': u'detectives', u'Literatuur klassiek': u'literatuurklassiek', u'Sci
ence Fiction': u'sciencefiction', u'Literatuur en romans': u'literatuurenromans', u'Korte verhalen e
n gedichten': u'korteverhalenengedichten', u'Reisverhalen': u'reisverhalen', u'Non-fictie': u'nonHYP
HEN-MINUSfictie', u'Spionage': u'spionage', u'Dictionaries': u'dictionaries', u'Fantasy': u'fantasy'
, u'Jeugdboeken': u'jeugdboeken', u'Thrillers': u'thrillers', u'Reizen': u'reizen', u'Detectives en
thrillers': u'detectivesenthrillers'}
existing thumb cache at C:\Users\Willum Kerker\AppData\Local\calibre-cache\catalog\thumbs.zip, cac
hed_thumb_width: 1.00"
1% Sorting titles
*** No books to catalog.
Check 'Excluded books' rules in E-book options.
***
*** Terminated catalog generation: No books to catalog.
Check 'Excluded books' rules in E-book options.
***

No luck :-(
PS: It works with Dictionaries

[Willum]

Hi Kovidgoyal,

Did I found a little bug or do I something wrong ?

Regards,
Willum

[kovidgoyal]

You need to figure out how to pass quoted strings in whatever command line interpreter you are using. For bash, it is

-s 'tags:"=Alternate History"'

[Willum]

Hi Kovidgoyal,

I couldn't get it work, what I now did.. I have made all the tags 'spaceless'.

Example of catalog.bat:

@ECHO OFF
Call CreateCatalog "Detectives" 
Call CreateCatalog "DetectivesEnThrillers"
Call CreateCatalog "Dictionaries"
Call CreateCatalog "KorteVerhalenEnGedichten"

Example of CreateCatalog.bat

SET TAGNAME=%~1
SET TAGS=tags:"=%TAGNAME%"

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Calibre2\calibredb" catalog "G:\My Documents\Calibre Bibliotheek\%TAGNAME%.epub" -s %TAGS%
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Calibre2\calibredb" add --tags Catalog --title %TAGNAME% --authors "Calibre" "G:\My Documents\Calibre Bibliotheek\%TAGNAME%.epub"
DEL "G:\My Documents\Calibre Bibliotheek\%TAGNAME%.epub"

This will run in Winows as a batch file.

Thanks anyway for the help.

Regards,
Willum

[Willum]

Ok, now I have it worked out.
This will create the catalogs in a windows environment:

catalog.bat:

@ECHO OFF
Call CreateCatalog "Detectives" 
Call CreateCatalog "Detectives en Thrillers"
Call CreateCatalog "Dictionaries"
Call CreateCatalog "Fantasy"
Call CreateCatalog "Jeugdboeken"
Call CreateCatalog "Korte verhalen en Gedichten"
Call CreateCatalog "Literatuur en Romans"
Call CreateCatalog "Literatuur klassiek"
Call CreateCatalog "Non-fictie"
Call CreateCatalog "Reisverhalen"
Call CreateCatalog "Reizen"
Call CreateCatalog "Science Fiction"
Call CreateCatalog "Spionage"
Call CreateCatalog "Thrillers"

:: 
:: Create a separated book with all series 
::
SET CALIBREDBPROG="C:\Program Files (x86)\Calibre2\calibredb"
SET TARGETFILE="G:\My Documents\Calibre Bibliotheek\Series.epub" 

%CALIBREDBPROG% catalog %TARGETFILE% -s "series:true"
%CALIBREDBPROG% add --tags Catalog --title Series --authors "Calibre" %TARGETFILE%
DEL %TARGETFILE%

EXIT

CreateCatalog.bat:

SET CALIBREDBPROG="C:\Program Files (x86)\Calibre2\calibredb"
SET TAGNAME=%~1
SET TAGS=tags:\"=%TAGNAME%\"
SET TARGETFILE="G:\My Documents\Calibre Bibliotheek\%TAGNAME%.epub" 

%CALIBREDBPROG% catalog %TARGETFILE% -s "%TAGS%"
%CALIBREDBPROG% add --tags Catalog --title "%TAGNAME%" --authors "Calibre" %TARGETFILE%
DEL %TARGETFILE%