[MaienM]

This plugin scrapes the shelves page of Goodreads to provide more tags than the top 4 (which are shown on the main page and scraped by the Goodreads plugin).

This plugin will only provide tags. It is meant to be used as a companion to the Goodreads plugin, and it is essentially an extended version of the genre -> tag mapping included in that plugin.

Main Features

• Can retrieve the shelves page of Goodreads to provide more tags.
• Customizable mapping from shelf name -> tags. A shelf can be mapped to multiple tags, and multiple shelves can map to the same tag(s).
• Fine-grained filtering to only keep tags that enough people agree on.
• Integrates with the Goodreads plugin to provide tags for all of its results.

Special Notes

• Requires Calibre 0.8 or later.
• If used without the base Goodreads plugin, it will only get tags for books that have a Goodreads identifier.

Installation Notes

• Download the attached zip file and install the plugin as described in the Introduction to plugins thread.
• Note that this is not a GUI plugin so it is not intended/cannot be added to context menus/toolbars etc.
• Customize your desired genre -> tag mappings and other options from the metadata download configuration screen. Hover over the ? symbols to get an explanation of what the various options do.

Version History

Spoiler:

Version 1.2.1 - 15 November 2020

• Fixed an error in adding a new shelf to the mapping.
• Fixed an error in removing a shelf from the mapping.
• Fixed an error in saving the preferences.

Version 1.2.0 - 14 November 2020

• Update to work with Calibre 5/Python 3.
• Speed up the case where the Goodreads plugin is installed but not currently enabled as a metadata source.
• Don't provide any results if the list of tags after mapping + filtering is empty.

Version 1.1.0 - 15 December 2019

• Large internal changes that should resolve the problems with hanging/reliability.
• There are now some settings for the integration with the base Goodreads plugin.

Version 1.0.1 - 04 August 2019

• Fixed the spelling of threshold.

Version 1.0.0 - 04 August 2019

• Initial release.