I setup an account and loaded the access key into Calibre. Entered several isbn numbers, all valid, and then hit the download metadata buttom - book not found.
calibre, version 0.8.57
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.
Running identify query with parameters:
{u'authors': None, u'identifiers': {u'isbn': u'0070016003'}, u'timeout': 30, u'title': None}
Using plugins: Google, Amazon.com, ISBNDB
The log from individual plugins is below
****************************** ISBNDB ******************************
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1')]
Found 0 results
Downloading from ISBNDB took 0.888000011444
************************************************** ******************************
****************************** Amazon.com ******************************
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1')]
Found 0 results
Downloading from Amazon.com took 1.875
No matches found with query: u'http://www.amazon.com/s/?sort=relevanceexprank&search-alias=aps&field-isbn=0070016003&unfiltered=1'
************************************************** ******************************
****************************** Google ******************************
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.2; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1')]
Found 0 results
Downloading from Google took 0.510999917984
************************************************** ******************************
The identify phase took 2.02 seconds
The longest time (1.875000) was taken by: Amazon.com
Merging results from different sources and finding earliest publication dates from the xisbn service
We have 0 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds
Two thing are strange, if I logon to
https://isbndb.com/account/dev/keys/
I see the usage counter has increased and if I do a manual search at the site it finds the book.
Petroleum reservoir engineering
[by] James W. Amyx, Daniel M. Bass, Jr. [and] Robert L. Whiting
Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill, 1960-
ISBN: 0070016003 DDC: 622.3382 LCC: TN870
Notes:
Includes bibliography.
[1] Physical properties.
Classification:
(click to see other 'Books on the Same Shelf')
Dewey Class: 622.3382 -- Mining & related operations
LCC Number: TN870
So what I am doing wrong. By the way the Title and Author fields contain "Unknown" as I have been loading several books at a time.