This plugin gets the metadata for books from the Kobo store.
Main Features- Can retrieve title, author, comments, publisher, publication date, series and tags.
- Fetches high resolution covers using size defined by "maximum_cover_size" tweak.
- The identifier used is "kobo". It will show in the details as "KoboBooks".
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:- Tags are created from the categories Kobo has for the books. These are shown as a hierarchy on the page. When creating the tags, there are three choices on how to use the categories:
- Top level only - Only use the highest level category.
- Hierarchy - Create dot separated tags using each category hierarchy.
- Individual tags - Create a tag for each category at each level.
Version History:
Spoiler:
Version 1.9.2 - 25 June 2022- Fix: Site change for title.
Version 1.9.1 - 16 June 2022- Fix: Site change for Publisher.
Version 1.9.0 - 05 April 2022- Fix: Site change for Series info
- Fix: Set some request headers to one that the site seems to find acceptable.
Version 1.8.3 - 01 November 2021- Fix: Bot protection seems to have been added. Need to use a different user agent to get around it.
Version 1.8.2 - 20 March 2021
- Fix: Remove debugging statement that was left in.
Version 1.8.1 - 20 March 2021- Fix: Change in tags around the title on both the details and search results pages.
Version 1.8.0 - 08 January 2020- Update: Changes for Python 3 support in calibre.
- Fix: Wasn't encoding the author properly in the query.
Version 1.7.0 - 14 July 2019- Fix: Remove "sanitize_comments_html" from comments to workaround change in this in calibre 3.42.0.
- Fix: If Kobo has no authors, do not reject.
- Fix: Page layout change.
Version 1.6.0 - 29 March 2019- Fix: Page changes meaning errors getting publishing details and ISBN.
Version 1.5.0 - 31 December 2018- Change: Handle country specific URLs in id_from_url.
- Change: Use HTTPS instead of HTTP.
Version 1.4.0 - 10 November 2018
- Fix: Wasn't handling case where there were no tags/genres.
- Fix: Missed fetching ISBN if there was an "Imprint".
- New: Add support for fetching languages and rating and get high resolution cover. Based on code by MR member @qsxwdc
- Change: Try for better support of other languages in search. Based on suggestion by MR member @Aerandir14
- New: Add id_from_url to return the identifier.
Version 1.3.0 - 02 October 2017
- Fix: Site changes for series info.
- Fix: Workaround for search page differences.
Version 1.2.1 - 10 April 2017
- Fix: Remove creation of debugging file.
Version 1.2.0 - 9 April 2017
- Fix: Site changes for search.
- Fix: Site changes for the details page.
Version 1.1.0 - 27 November 2016
- Fix: Site changes to series and comments.
Version 1.0.0 - 01 January 2015