Thread: [Metadata Source Plugin] Skoob Books
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Old 08-21-2019, 08:03 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by thiago.eec View Post
Not with this plugin. Actually, all metadata plugins can only write to calibre standard fields. To retrieve such information, you would need to store it on custom columns, which can't be done using a metadata plugin.
A tactic someone has taken for getting extra information from Goodreads is to extend the Goodreads metadata source plugin to write extra information in, I think, the comments field. Then they have another plugin that splits this to different columns.

Someone else has just written another that gets more tags from the Goodreads shelf than the main Goodreads metadata source plugin.
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When I have some time, I'll try to take a look on Goodread Sync plugin and see if I could adapt it to use Skoob. No promises, though.
If Skoob works like Goodreads to store your book details, then Goodreads Sync is probably the right model. But, it isn't a simple plugin. It does abstract the access to the site a bit, so maybe that can be replaced. If you have questions about it, I'm happy to answer. And if you can see some refactoring that would help you, I'm willing to look at them.
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