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Old 01-01-2015, 07:02 AM   #1
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[Metadata Source Plugin] Kobo Books
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
  • Initial release
Attached Files
File Type: zip KoboBooks.zip (9.4 KB, 32645 views)
Last edited by davidfor; 06-25-2022 at 03:40 AM. Reason: Update to version 1.9.2
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