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Originally Posted by slantybard
It would be nice if we could access the search internet plugin from the edit metadata dialog window but I have no idea if that would be complex to do. Then you could have the metadata window open, search for the internet and then copy/paste stuff right into the window.
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There is no way to do this as a plugin currently, it would require changes to Calibre source code. Plugins can only be hosted on the toolbar or library right-click menus, and as the edit metdata dialog is modal neither are accessible with it open. However you can of course use the menu options before opening the edit metadata dialog...
As for some sort of automation of that metadata retrieval - yeah it's a nice dream but realistcally not going to happen for any websites except those that offer a formal API - such as Amazon, GoogleBooks etc which Calibre already has metadata readers for. Trying to grab unstructured data from various sites using web page scraping techniques leads to madness
