[GUI Plugin] Overdrive Link - Page 32

jhowell · 05-24-2015, 02:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LilyEvie

I have a configuration error for Hoopla: "Hoopla library id must be numeric"

Quote:

Originally Posted by LilyEvie

I think I found the number I needed. 427 for Phila.

It looks like you figured it out on your own. Just in case anyone else runs into the same issue, the plugin requires that the Library-ID in the configuration for Hoopla libraries be set to the number that Hoopla has assigned to your library, e.g. 427 for the Free Library of Philadelphia. Attempting to sign in to Hoopla and do a search without this set will cause the plugin to list the known library numbers in the log of the search job. Find the number for your library and use it to update the plugin configuration. The current list is:

Spoiler:

Quote:

Originally Posted by LilyEvie

Ok. Not sure what I am doing wrong
Signing in to HOOPLADIGITAL.COM: : Server response error (Sign in failed. Check email address (card number) and password (PIN).)

Check that you correctly entered your Hoopla sign in credentials in the plugin configuration. Your email address goes in the Card-Number column and your password goes in the Card-PIN column.

Note: You need to register at Hoopla before using the plugin. Also, your Hoopla credentials are probably different from your OverDrive credentials.

Quote:

Originally Posted by LilyEvie

Skipping HOOPLADIGITAL.COM: Supports none of the configured book formats

This error occurs because you need to emable the correct search formats in the plugin configuration in order to find Hoopla e-boooks and audiobooks. Because Hoopla media are only usable in a web browser or in their proprietary app, you need need to enable Other/app/viewer to find e-books or Other/app/player to find audiobooks.

LilyEvie · 05-24-2015, 07:27 PM

Thank you very much. I was entering my library card number & PW from the Phila Library.

Also the "enable Other/app/viewer to find e-books or Other/app/player to find audiobooks" hint completed what I needed.

Fantastic Plugin

Terisa de morgan · 05-26-2015, 04:07 AM

I have a question (again

) Is there any way for not having to accept every book the plugin has searched but allowing the update, if it exists?

Thanks in advance

jhowell · 05-26-2015, 08:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

Is there any way for not having to accept every book the plugin has searched but allowing the update, if it exists?

Sorry, I don't understand the question.

Terisa de morgan · 05-26-2015, 09:38 AM

My apologies, I explain bad myself in Spanish, so in English....

Anytime you search for a book in the setup libraries, there's a confirmation window with the results, where you have to click "OK" for updating the metadata if there's any change or finish the task if there's no change. Is there any way for this dialog not to appear so the changes are automatic?

jhowell · 05-26-2015, 02:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

My apologies, I explain bad myself in Spanish, so in English....

Anytime you search for a book in the setup libraries, there's a confirmation window with the results, where you have to click "OK" for updating the metadata if there's any change or finish the task if there's no change. Is there any way for this dialog not to appear so the changes are automatic?

Your English is very good. I understand now.

Sorry, but the answer is no. The plugin relies on the search completion pop-up dialog to serialize database access. While this may not be strictly necessary, I prefer a conservative approach when it comes to writing to the calibre database.

Terisa de morgan · 05-26-2015, 03:01 PM

Ok, thank you very much, I perfectly understand the reason.

jhowell · 06-03-2015, 11:07 AM

Version 1.34.0 - 03 Jun 2015

Handle change to the OverDrive website design. (Fixes Server response error (Unexpected hold info: Holds position:1 ahead of you) when checking current availability of books.)

If sign-in credentials are configured for a Hoopla library, but the library-id is not configured, the plugin will now detect and report the proper library-id instead of providing a list of libraries and making the user choose the correct one.

Providing credentials for 3M Cloud Library in the configuration will allow the plugin take into account the user's current position on the hold list for books, if any, when checking current availability. (Note: When not signed in, 3M occasionally shows books as being currently available to be borrowed when they are not.)

Fix occasional HTTPError (Internal Server Error) when checking for current book availability at 3M.

sweth · 06-03-2015, 01:30 PM

Would it be possible to tweak the plugin to allow searching of the Gutenberg database via the ID that Gutenberg uses? I sometimes have entries for books I want to get from Gutenberg where I just create an empty record w/ the Gutenberg URI as an identifier, but it appears that if I don't also manually fill in the author/title, the Overdrive plugin won't find those records.

jhowell · 06-03-2015, 03:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sweth

Would it be possible to tweak the plugin to allow searching of the Gutenberg database via the ID that Gutenberg uses? I sometimes have entries for books I want to get from Gutenberg where I just create an empty record w/ the Gutenberg URI as an identifier, but it appears that if I don't also manually fill in the author/title, the Overdrive plugin won't find those records.

Your question has me baffled! If you already know the PG ID for a book then you know that book is available at PG so there is no need to search for it. If you have the URI of the book already in your database then you have a direct link to the book so you don't need the plugin for that either. Having the book linked via the plugin would just give you a slightly different way of following the link that you already have.

If you still want to pursue this, then you could look into ways of copying data from one identifier to another in calibre. For each PG URI there is an equivalent odid identifier that expresses the same link for the plugin. For example, The Aliens by Murray Leinster is PG #24104. The URI identifier is uri:http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24104 and The equivalent link for the plugin would be the identifier odid:24104@pg/

Let me know if I have misunderstood your request.

sweth · 06-03-2015, 04:07 PM

While I'm suggesting things (to an already great plugin--thanks again for this!): it would be amazing if the plugin could support groupings of providers that could be acted on independently, including having info stored in different DB fields.

As one use case: I track audiobook and regular ebook versions of books in separate records in Calibre, and am now using the availability search to show the shortest number of weeks' wait among the libraries I have access to; right now, I either have to only track library availability of one or the other, track both in one record but then manually figure out which version's wait time is showing, or configure a provider for ebooks and another for audiobooks and then manually switch them on/off before updating one or the other set of records. If I could do the different-provider solution but just run one set or the other as needed, that would be much easier.

As another: I also prefer Overdrive versions of ebooks to ones from Open Library or Project Gutenberg; if I could easily search in OD libraries first and then fall back to OL/PG, that would be great.

Ideally, something like that could be implemented by just adding another column to the configuration tab for "grouping prefix", and then basically doing everything else identically but storing the results in fields named with the grouping prefix if set and if a corresponding custom column exists. The UI would have to be tweaked a bit as well, to allow some way to select doing searches against all providers vs. running the searches for a particular group.

So, for example, someone could configure one set of providers that only search eBook formats, and another set that only searches audiobooks, and the latter could have a grouping prefix of "audio"; if custom columns "audio_identifiers" and "audio_ol_wait_weeks" exist, then the second set of providers would store their output in those column instead of the usual "identifiers" and "ol_wait_weeks". Similarly, a grouping of "gutenberg" and one of "openlib" could be used to store availability in "gutenberg_identifiers" and "openlib_identifiers", etc.

(Thanks again for the plugin, even if something like this can't be added!)

sweth · 06-03-2015, 04:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jhowell

Your question has me baffled! If you already know the PG ID for a book then you know that book is available at PG so there is no need to search for it. If you have the URI of the book already in your database then you have a direct link to the book so you don't need the plugin for that either. Having the book linked via the plugin would just give you a slightly different way of following the link that you already have.

Sorry, I wasn't clear with the full goal, because (I now realize) I hadn't fully thought it through. Ideally, I'd like to be able to search in *other* libraries for records that I've added based on the PG ID, since often Overdrive copies of books are better quality (fewer OCR errors, etc) than PG ones. Thinking about it some more, though, what I think I really need is some way to update the metadata for my PG stub records, so that your plugin can just do its thing. So either I'll see if Kovid might be open to adding PG as a metadata source, or write a script to parse the PG catalog and update the author/title fields for those stubs.

(Re: the ODID solution: that would be great, but when I experimented with that, it didn't seem to work. e.g. for the book at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27458 , if I create a stub record in Calibre using calibredb add -e -I 'odid:27458@pg' and then run the Overdrive plugin, it finds no match. I tried again using a trailing slash since your example above had one, but that also didn't work.)

jhowell · 06-03-2015, 05:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sweth

(Re: the ODID solution: that would be great, but when I experimented with that, it didn't seem to work. e.g. for the book at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27458 , if I create a stub record in Calibre using calibredb add -e -I 'odid:27458@pg' and then run the Overdrive plugin, it finds no match. I tried again using a trailing slash since your example above had one, but that also didn't work.)

This works for me (without the quotes and with the trailing slash):

Code:

calibredb add -e -I odid:27458@pg/

To be clear, this will add the link as if it had been found by a plugin search. You will be able to follow the link by selecting the book and activating the plugin menu.

jhowell · 06-03-2015, 08:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sweth

it would be amazing if the plugin could support groupings of providers that could be acted on independently, including having info stored in different DB fields.

As one use case: I track audiobook and regular ebook versions of books in separate records in Calibre, and am now using the availability search to show the shortest number of weeks' wait among the libraries I have access to; right now, I either have to only track library availability of one or the other, track both in one record but then manually figure out which version's wait time is showing, or configure a provider for ebooks and another for audiobooks and then manually switch them on/off before updating one or the other set of records. If I could do the different-provider solution but just run one set or the other as needed, that would be much easier.

As another: I also prefer Overdrive versions of ebooks to ones from Open Library or Project Gutenberg; if I could easily search in OD libraries first and then fall back to OL/PG, that would be great.

What you are asking for would add flexibility, but it would also be quite a bit of work for me to implement something that I believe very few people would have a use for. The plugin is already more complicated to configure and use than I would like.

Searching for different books at individualized subsets of libraries or types (e-book/audiobook) seems like more trouble than it is worth to me. Just let the plugin gather as much data as possible and then filter out what you don't need. You can hide the ol_wait_weeks column and use it as the data source for new custom columns that contain the individual data elements filtered and sorted as you desire. A lot can be done using calibre template functions accessed from a custom column.

For example if you want a custom version of ol_wait_weeks that includes only links to audiobooks:

Code:

#function: ol_wait_audio_only
#arg count: 1
#doc: return only ol_wait_weeks links for audiobooks
#     Use in a custom column template: {#ol_wait_weeks:ol_wait_audio_only()}
#program code:

def evaluate(self, formatter, kwargs, mi, locals, ol_wait_weeks):
    all_entries = [w.strip() for w in ol_wait_weeks.split(',')]
    audio_entries = filter(lambda f: '#' in f, all_entries)
    return ', '.join(audio_entries)

jhowell · 06-06-2015, 09:03 AM

Version 1.34.1 - 06 Jun 2015

Handle further change to the OverDrive website design. (Fixes Server response error (Unexpected hold info: Holds position: You are next in line for this title) and Server response error (missing "h6 id=waitlimit") when checking current availability of books.)

05-26-2015, 09:38 AM	#470
Terisa de morgan Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,229 Karma: 11768331 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Madrid, Spain Device: Kobo Clara/Aura One/Forma,XiaoMI 5, iPad, Huawei MediaPad, YotaPhone 2	My apologies, I explain bad myself in Spanish, so in English.... Anytime you search for a book in the setup libraries, there's a confirmation window with the results, where you have to click "OK" for updating the metadata if there's any change or finish the task if there's no change. Is there any way for this dialog not to appear so the changes are automatic? Last edited by Terisa de morgan; 05-26-2015 at 09:48 AM.

06-03-2015, 01:30 PM	#474
sweth Connoisseur Posts: 67 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2015 Device: Kobo Aura H20, Kindle Fire 7 (7G), Kindle PW (2G), Nook GlowLight Plus	Possible to search Gutenberg using identifier if present? Would it be possible to tweak the plugin to allow searching of the Gutenberg database via the ID that Gutenberg uses? I sometimes have entries for books I want to get from Gutenberg where I just create an empty record w/ the Gutenberg URI as an identifier, but it appears that if I don't also manually fill in the author/title, the Overdrive plugin won't find those records.

06-03-2015, 04:07 PM	#476
sweth Connoisseur Posts: 67 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2015 Device: Kobo Aura H20, Kindle Fire 7 (7G), Kindle PW (2G), Nook GlowLight Plus	Provider groupings? While I'm suggesting things (to an already great plugin--thanks again for this!): it would be amazing if the plugin could support groupings of providers that could be acted on independently, including having info stored in different DB fields. As one use case: I track audiobook and regular ebook versions of books in separate records in Calibre, and am now using the availability search to show the shortest number of weeks' wait among the libraries I have access to; right now, I either have to only track library availability of one or the other, track both in one record but then manually figure out which version's wait time is showing, or configure a provider for ebooks and another for audiobooks and then manually switch them on/off before updating one or the other set of records. If I could do the different-provider solution but just run one set or the other as needed, that would be much easier. As another: I also prefer Overdrive versions of ebooks to ones from Open Library or Project Gutenberg; if I could easily search in OD libraries first and then fall back to OL/PG, that would be great. Ideally, something like that could be implemented by just adding another column to the configuration tab for "grouping prefix", and then basically doing everything else identically but storing the results in fields named with the grouping prefix if set and if a corresponding custom column exists. The UI would have to be tweaked a bit as well, to allow some way to select doing searches against all providers vs. running the searches for a particular group. So, for example, someone could configure one set of providers that only search eBook formats, and another set that only searches audiobooks, and the latter could have a grouping prefix of "audio"; if custom columns "audio_identifiers" and "audio_ol_wait_weeks" exist, then the second set of providers would store their output in those column instead of the usual "identifiers" and "ol_wait_weeks". Similarly, a grouping of "gutenberg" and one of "openlib" could be used to store availability in "gutenberg_identifiers" and "openlib_identifiers", etc. (Thanks again for the plugin, even if something like this can't be added!)

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05-24-2015, 07:27 PM	#467
LilyEvie Connoisseur Posts: 63 Karma: 500010 Join Date: Jun 2013 Device: none	Thank you very much. I was entering my library card number & PW from the Phila Library. Also the "enable Other/app/viewer to find e-books or Other/app/player to find audiobooks" hint completed what I needed. Fantastic Plugin

05-26-2015, 04:07 AM	#468
Terisa de morgan Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,229 Karma: 11768331 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Madrid, Spain Device: Kobo Clara/Aura One/Forma,XiaoMI 5, iPad, Huawei MediaPad, YotaPhone 2	I have a question (again ) Is there any way for not having to accept every book the plugin has searched but allowing the update, if it exists? Thanks in advance

05-26-2015, 03:01 PM	#472
Terisa de morgan Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,229 Karma: 11768331 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Madrid, Spain Device: Kobo Clara/Aura One/Forma,XiaoMI 5, iPad, Huawei MediaPad, YotaPhone 2	Ok, thank you very much, I perfectly understand the reason.

06-03-2015, 11:07 AM	#473
jhowell Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,496 Karma: 84420419 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Tampa Bay, Florida Device: Kindles	Version 1.34.0 - 03 Jun 2015 Handle change to the OverDrive website design. (Fixes Server response error (Unexpected hold info: Holds position:1 ahead of you) when checking current availability of books.) If sign-in credentials are configured for a Hoopla library, but the library-id is not configured, the plugin will now detect and report the proper library-id instead of providing a list of libraries and making the user choose the correct one. Providing credentials for 3M Cloud Library in the configuration will allow the plugin take into account the user's current position on the hold list for books, if any, when checking current availability. (Note: When not signed in, 3M occasionally shows books as being currently available to be borrowed when they are not.) Fix occasional HTTPError (Internal Server Error) when checking for current book availability at 3M.

06-06-2015, 09:03 AM	#480
jhowell Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,496 Karma: 84420419 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Tampa Bay, Florida Device: Kindles	Version 1.34.1 - 06 Jun 2015 Handle further change to the OverDrive website design. (Fixes Server response error (Unexpected hold info: Holds position: You are next in line for this title) and Server response error (missing "h6 id=waitlimit") when checking current availability of books.)

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