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Originally Posted by davidfor
Throughout this discussion you have gone to great lengths to say how perfect your scripts are and how they get perfect results and that anyone using calibre is an idiot (OK, my word but I don't think it is a stretch). But, those scripts are using calibre to download the metadata. And that means that the difference in what you do and someone using the calibre interface is doing is that you don't check the metadata before accepting it. What that means is that your definition of "perfect" is actually "whatever calibre finds for me".
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The scripts are basically written to get around the deliberate rate limiting I do in the calibre GUI as a courtesy to site owners. The scripts use fetch-ebook-metadata.exe from calibre to download metadata and ebook-metadata.exe from calibre to read/write metadata. Being disrespectful of site owners resources is pretty much the extent of the great innovation in these scripts
To any innocent bystanders reading this, please do not use these scripts. You will place undue load on the various servers calibre downloads metadata from, making the site owners lives more difficult and making it more likely that they will implement more rigorous bot detection algorithms which in turn means that metadata download will stop working for all calibre users, not just users of these "scripts". And everybody that uses those services will have to solve more captchas.