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Old 03-17-2012, 09:16 PM   #5
kiwidude
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Originally Posted by Dionysus View Post
Or are you telling me that you parse the page?
That is exactly what Kovid is saying - the plugins for calibre parse the same sort of Amazon web pages that you would see in a web browser, but using xpath queries to extract the relevant data from the html. Hence why when Amazon changes their web page layout you see people complaining about their metadata downloads not working...
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