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Originally Posted by davidfor

The search is fuzzy and the results are affected by where Kobo thinks you are coming from. In some cases, it will show an exact match on ISBN. But, it can also display a different edition of the book that is available to you. Or none because there isn't a close match. It can be more accurate if the national URLs are used instead of the generic, but, that complicates the plugin without really solving the problem.

When a request is sent with the generic URL Kobo will redirect the plugin to the national URL based on IP. Change your IP to Italian and you will get Italian tags back. Allowing a user to define the URL is going to give the same results you're already receiving based on different IP's - what I am saying is allowing the user to choose their URL doesn't change the results the Kobo plugin already receives.

I think bast on your suggestions about different books being available the default Kobo Plugin URL should be www.kobo.com/ww/en / store.kobobooks.com/ww/en.

Did you have any other metadata? If you have the title or author, the search is much more likely to find something. For first of the above, I do get a result on just the ISBN, but, the book ("The Education of an Idealist" by Samantha Powers) is not the first match. And that edition has a different ISBN.

https://www.kobo.com/en/search?Query...clanguages=all

When I open the URL I takes me directly to the correct book, and the ISBN used in the search is the same as the ISBN on the page. The Kobo plugin should of matched - there is something wrong here. Are you saying when you open this URL it doesn't take you to the same book as me? - https://ibb.co/dJkjXgs

Try this: Select only the Kobo plugin as a Metadata source. Match a book and change all the metadata to match. Remove the Kobo Identifier and now run the Metadata search again, it should match based on only ISBN? But this is not happening.

For the latter, I don't get a match. Searching on the site does find an exact match, "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho. There might be a redirect happening or I might not be handling single results properly. I'll have a look at that.

Thank you, that the Kobo plugin can match with only an ISBN search first is one of my favourite things about it - it would be great to see it working.