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Originally Posted by petzi
@BetterRed
But I did find a page where some information about APIs and Services of LibraryThing. I am not a programmer and do not understand everything, but it seems to me that there is the possibility for automated downloads. It says at the last line at the page
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You are limited to a maximum of 1,000 requests per day.
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Maybe this is not the right API or maybe 1,000 is not enough? |
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petzi - Indeed, that does appear to be a step in the right direction.
Hopefully someone who is au fait with what calibre needs in a metadata download API can have a look at it and voice an opinion on its suitability - and maybe even put their hand up to develop, support and
maintain a LibraryThing plugin
I assume '
you are limited to 1,000 requests a day' means -- downloads of metadata is limited to 1,000
books per
user per day. That seems a reasonable limit to me - and I can't imagine they'd mean anything else.
IIRC some (all ??) metadata download plugins introduce a delay between successive downloads so as not to swamp the suppliers server.
BR