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Originally Posted by StillReading
I've just started using Calibre a few days ago, and I'm amazed by the program. I quickly came to a point where I'm having more questions than answers though, I hope this forum can help a little to remedy that (; .
I'm wondering which types of IDs (amazon, amazon_de, isbn, etc.) are available in Calibre. I couldn't find any info on that matter on the manual or on the web.
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Not clear what you mean by "available". Identifiers are supported by metadata source plugins. If you mean "supported out of the box" to make URLs, then from looking at the code I think the answer is amazon, douban, edelweiss, google, isbndb, openlibrary, overdrive, and ozon. There are many (!) metadata sources available as plugins (see
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=118764 and scroll down to metadata sources). Most if not all of these support identifiers.
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Also, I'm wondering if it's possible to add custom ID types without making changes to the core program. For instance, I'm using worldswithoutend.com as a source for meta data. This site is using a single numeric ID as an "identifier" for authors and books, and probably other data. I'd rather just have the numeric ID in the Calibre database as a reference, and somehow "build" an URL out of that data. Adding a custom column would work I guess, but that'd be a rather clunky solution.
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You can use anything you want as an ID name. If you want to have it converted to URLs then you will need to make a metadata source plugin for it.
Note that "url" and "uri" are supported identifier types.