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kylecarroll · 10-31-2019, 06:57 PM

Hey all! I have a python program that I wrote which takes a CSV export from Calibre and gives you your stats such as Number of books owned, number read, average rating, titles of current reads, etc. Ever since I found out that development in Calibre is done in python, I've been wanting to move this functionality into Calibre itself so that all I have to do is press a button on the interface and have a pop up tell me all those fun stats.

However...I'm relatively new to Python. I can handle python on its own but I'm having trouble integrating it into Calibre. Can someone give me some pointers on how I would do this? I'm currently using the interface plugin demo as a starting point while I learn.

I was able to get all the text I need into a popup, but I can't figure out how to iterate over all of the book IDs and parse their metadata to create the variables (which would then be passed into the string of text).

10-31-2019, 06:57 PM	#1
kylecarroll Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2019 Device: Kindle	Help creating a very simple statistics plugin? Hey all! I have a python program that I wrote which takes a CSV export from Calibre and gives you your stats such as Number of books owned, number read, average rating, titles of current reads, etc. Ever since I found out that development in Calibre is done in python, I've been wanting to move this functionality into Calibre itself so that all I have to do is press a button on the interface and have a pop up tell me all those fun stats. However...I'm relatively new to Python. I can handle python on its own but I'm having trouble integrating it into Calibre. Can someone give me some pointers on how I would do this? I'm currently using the interface plugin demo as a starting point while I learn. I was able to get all the text I need into a popup, but I can't figure out how to iterate over all of the book IDs and parse their metadata to create the variables (which would then be passed into the string of text).