Calibre Config Reports is a comprehensive tool for viewing, searching, and exporting detailed information about your Calibre setup—including installed plugins, custom columns, keyboard shortcuts, and settings. It offers powerful filtering, export options (CSV/XLSX), and easy copy features for troubleshooting or sharing your configuration.
CCR started when I felt the need for a more informative plugin manager. Once that goal was achieved, additional features were added, and what was initially just "Plugin Info" eventually evolved into Calibre Config Reports.
The plugin is organized into six specialized tabs, each designed to give you complete visibility and control over different aspects of your Calibre configuration:
Plugins Tab
- View & manage: All installed plugins with detailed information (name, version, author, type, category)
- Filter & search: By category (Calibre ≥8.9), name, author, or description
- Actions: Remove plugins, visit forums, copy info, donate to authors
- Export: Plugin list data to CSV/XLSX with customizable columns
- Install: Load new plugins from ZIP files directly
Custom Columns Tab
- Display: All custom columns with metadata (name, type, format, template)
- Search: Filter by column name, type, or properties
- View details: Composite templates, display settings, and format options
- Export: Column configurations to CSV/XLSX
- Quick access: Copy templates and settings for reuse
Shortcuts Tab
- Browse: All keyboard shortcuts organized by group and action
- Search: Find shortcuts by key combination, action name, or modifier
- Navigate: Open Calibre's shortcuts preferences for editing
- Export: Shortcut mappings to CSV/XLSX
- Organize: Sort and filter by group, action, or key combination
Settings Tab
- Overview: Calibre main settings organized by Category, Value, UI location and Source
- Categories: Installation type, libraries, interface, performance, network settings
- Search: Filter settings by category, name, or value
- Access: Double-click to open Calibre's main preferences dialog
- Export: Complete settings inventory to CSV/XLSX
History Tab
- Timeline: Recent changes to plugins, some key settings, and Calibre updates
- Events: Plugin installs/updates/removals, some key setting changes, version changes
- Details: Timestamps, event types, and comprehensive change information
- Filter: Search history by event type, plugin name, or details
- Export: Historical data to CSV/XLSX for auditing
Help Tab
- Resources: Direct links to Calibre downloads for all platforms
- Documentation: Quick access to user manual sections and tutorials
- Support: Plugin forum thread and development support links
- About
: Plugin version information and description
Compatibility
- Calibre 6.25 or later
- Should work on Windows, macOS, and Linux (I've only tested on Windows, feedback is welcome)
Hope you enjoy it.
Release notes
Spoiler:
version 2.0.9:
- on standard calibre installs (OS wide installations as opposed to portable), location info displays "Default Install"
- custom columns tab: added web search template field
- shortcuts tab: user defined shorcuts option added to dropdown chooser; table formatting for those is emphasised.
- plugins tab: added 'Is disabled' column (note: only some plugin types can be disabled in Calibre e.g. metadata sources)
- plugins tab: On the dropdown selector, moved 'Not in index' item to first option, followed by 'Extend calibre generally".
- copy info context menu and respective shortcut have been added (main dialog header information data, as requested)
- general fixes
version 2.0.8:
- CCR shortcut now shows correctly 'None'
- Improved History tab duplicate detection
- Shortcuts tab: applied bold formatting to Assigned column
version 2.0.7:
- fixed shortcuts grouping not fetching properly the built-in action's groups.
version 2.0.6:
- fixed shortcuts filtering for built-in features/ user plugins
- open url now respects Calibre's openers_by_scheme tweak
- added optional Plugin Info box below plugins table
version 2.0.5:
-minor UI fix
version 2.0.4:
Small UI and stability update for Shortcuts/columns management.
- Shortcuts tab: new compact "Columns" control, dedicated "Reset Columns";
- UI: tighter button layout in the Shortcuts filter area.
Note: Reset clears only the saved column-layout preferences.
Release notes - version 2.0.3:
- added OS information display in the dialog header (top-left)
- added Calibre version display in the dialog header (top-left)
- added a 'Reset column state' action on the Plugins tab
- added a 'Reset column state' action on the Settings tab
- added a "Refresh" action on the Shortcuts tab — updates currently assigned shortcuts in the CCR table
- added registered keyboard shortcuts for the following actions: Calibre Config Reports (Open Plugin); CCR: Export current tab to CSV; CCR: Export current tab to Excel (XLSX); CCR: Load plugin(s) from file; CCR: Next tab; and CCR: Previous tab. To ensure the Next/Previous Tab shortcuts work when focus is on a selectable table item, move focus away from the table (for example, to the tab bar).
- added shortcuts filtering (search/filter by built-in Calibre features, user plugin shortcuts, assigned vs. unused shortcuts, key combinations or single-key shortcuts; regular expression search supported)
- added an 'Open configuration folder' button for quick access to Calibre config files (advanced use)
- added hover-tooltips for some long/truncated columns (e.g., Value, UI Location, Description/Template)
- added single-click activation for Forum Thread and Donate cells (opens URL)
- reinstated Forum Thread URL in the Plugins tab
- general fixes