FWIW, the Goodreads metadata plugin isn't working for me either. It only downloads metadata if I manually enter a Goodreads ID for a book, it does not work when searching on author/title.
I am on Windows XP SP3 / Calibre 0.8.41
Error I am getting is below:
Code:
calibre, version 0.8.41
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.
Starting download
Query: title:The Lightning Thief; authors:Rick Riordan
Running identify query with parameters:
{u'authors': [u'Rick Riordan'], u'identifiers': {}, u'timeout': 30, u'title': u'The Lightning Thief'}
Using plugins: Goodreads
The log from individual plugins is below
****************************** Goodreads ******************************
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1')]
Found 0 results
Downloading from Goodreads took 1.49199986458
Querying: http://www.goodreads.com/search?search_type=books&search[query]=The+Lightning+Thief+Rick+Riordan
Examining up to 82 editions: http://www.goodreads.com/work/editions/3346751
No matches found with query: u'http://www.goodreads.com/search?search_type=books&search[query]=The+Lightning+Thief+Rick+Riordan'
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The identify phase took 1.65 seconds
The longest time (1.492000) was taken by: Goodreads
Merging results from different sources and finding earliest publication dates from the xisbn service
We have 0 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds