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Old 03-17-2018, 01:56 AM   #1111
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Originally Posted by aquiaolado View Post
I have ebooks in Calibre a library management software, they have a column with title. The plug-in must retrive the value of that column for the rows chosen, then do a search with that value in google books, then copy the ISBN that appears in the url, then change the "=" with a ":" between the word "ISBN" and the actual number and then substitute whatever there is in the field ISBN in Calibre with the value retrieved. That is it.
That just sounds like you want to get the ISBN for a book and add it to the identifiers. Calibre already does this via several different metadata source plugins. If you use the metadata download, you will usually get an ISBN added to the identifiers.
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