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Old 03-09-2021, 08:34 PM   #1511
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Originally Posted by Fiat_Lux View Post
Could metadata from WorldCat.org, Archive.org, HathiTrust.org, scholar.google.com, and books.google.com be scraped, and added to the book metadata?
From memory, calibre used to use Worldcat but the free version of the API was either removed, or restricted in ways that made it impractical for calibre to use.

I'm sure someone looked at scholar.google.com in the past, but, I don't remember why it has not been done so far. But, books.google.com is one of the built-in metadata sources.

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Originally Posted by ownedbycats View Post
I also wouldn't mind being able to scrape info from OpenLibrary, though i suppose it'd be redundant with Archive.org.
With all the template and chains stuff you have been doing, have you considered doing it yourself? If you model it on one of the existing plugins, you have a large part of it covered. The hard part is working out the site, not the plugin code. And there is plenty of help available.
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