This plugin gets the metadata for books in Hebrew from the
Evrit store.
Main Features- Can retrieve title, authors, comments, publisher, publication date, tags, ratings and cover.
- The identifier used is "evrit". It will show in the details as "עברית".
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.
Configuration:
None.
Version History:
Spoiler:
Version 1.0.0 - 10 January 2023
Version 1.1.0 - 13 January 2023
- Fix identification of author names with unicode control characters, e.g. U+200E Left-to-Right Mark (LRM).
- More lenient matching: can ignore optional 'אהוי' letters in ktiv haser, e.g. "ג'ף פורשאו" vs. "ג'ף פורשו"
- Ignore punctuation when identifying titles, e.g. question mark.
- Partial title matching, e.g. 'עקצן איש העקרב' vs. 'השרביט והחרב 18 - עקצן איש העקרב'.
- Allow matching titles with extra tokens, e.g. 'ארו שאה ונקטר האלמוות' vs. 'ארו שאה 5 ונקטר האלמוות'.
- Allow matching authors with extra tokens, e.g. 'ליאת יקיר' vs. 'ד"ר ליאת יקיר'.
- Allow matching when not all authors are present.
Version 1.2.0 - 16 January 2023
- Improve high-res cover detection.
- Server GetCustomerProductsDetails api was changed from GET to POST. Previous plugin versions no longer work.
Version 1.3.0 - 18 February 2023
- Rename plugin from "Evrit metadata source" to "Evrit".
- Support titles with '/' character.
- Allow matching titles with subtitles, e.g. 'הארנק והחרב: המהפכה המשפטית ושברה' vs. 'הארנק והחרב'.
- Speed up matching.
- Support titles with Geresh (') character.
- Support titles with Gershayim (") character.
- Support matching titles which changed punctuation.
- Fix author matching bug.
Version 1.4.0 - 16 June 2023
- Fix socket exception ("A non-blocking socket operation could not be completed immediately on send") caused by
sending timeout=0.
- Using edit distance as relevance score to distinguish between similar matching titles.
- Avoid repeated calls with identical query.
- Optimistically try querying the full title before doing partial lookups.
- Obtain additional tags from Evrit's product page.