Thread: Trying to extract ISBN from title using action chain
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Old 05-11-2025, 08:21 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by Stumpy View Post
Hi

I installed calibre yesterday and i try to import my books into it right now.
As my books are in german, they wont get recognized that good.
Several of my books are in pdf and the isbn is at the beginning of the title.
Because of that, i installed the plugin "action chains" and made a action to extract the isbn from the title, which works fine, as long as i only have one book selected.
if i have multiple books selected, every book gets the same ISBN.
How can i run the action chain for each of the selected books or is there and easier way?

Action Chain
Single Filed Edit
Column = identifiers

Template
Code:
program:
    title = from_selection('title');
    isbn = shorten(title,13,"",0);
    test = ("isbn: " & isbn)
Greetings Stumpy
Does this get the correct ISBN if the ePub has multiple ISBN numbers in the copyright page?
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