So I've recently been having a fair number of searches fail, on books big enough that I was fairly confident goodreads would have decent data on. For example,
this book just came up empty for me, with this response:
Code:
calibre, version 0.9.29
ERROR: No matches found: <p>Failed to find any books that match your search. Try making the search <b>less specific</b>. For example, use only the author's last name and a single distinctive word from the title.<p>To see the full log, click Show Details.
Running identify query with parameters:
{u'authors': [u'Aimee Carter'], u'identifiers': {u'isbn': u'9780373210459'}, u'timeout': 30, u'title': u'Goddess Interrupted'}
Using plugins: Goodreads
The log from individual plugins is below
****************************** Goodreads ******************************
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0)')]
Found 0 results
Downloading from Goodreads took 1.21010184288
Querying: http://www.goodreads.com/search?search_type=books&search[query]=9780373210459
ISBN match location: u'http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12637490-goddess-interrupted'
Goodreads book url: u'http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12637490-goddess-interrupted'
Could not find title/authors/goodreads id for u'http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12637490-goddess-interrupted'
Goodreads: u'12637490' Title: None Authors: None
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The identify phase took 1.54 seconds
The longest time (1.210102) was taken by: Goodreads
Merging results from different sources and finding earliest publication dates from the worldcat.org service
We have 0 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds
So, to try and get around it, I put the goodreads:12637490 ID in manually, and run again, still failure:
Code:
calibre, version 0.9.29
ERROR: No matches found: <p>Failed to find any books that match your search. Try making the search <b>less specific</b>. For example, use only the author's last name and a single distinctive word from the title.<p>To see the full log, click Show Details.
Running identify query with parameters:
{u'authors': [u'Aimee Carter'], u'identifiers': {u'isbn': u'9780373210459', u'goodreads': u'12637490'}, u'timeout': 30, u'title': u'Goddess Interrupted'}
Using plugins: Goodreads
The log from individual plugins is below
****************************** Goodreads ******************************
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0)')]
Found 0 results
Downloading from Goodreads took 1.06321001053
Goodreads book url: u'http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12637490'
Could not find title/authors/goodreads id for u'http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12637490'
Goodreads: u'12637490' Title: None Authors: None
********************************************************************************
The identify phase took 1.32 seconds
The longest time (1.063210) was taken by: Goodreads
Merging results from different sources and finding earliest publication dates from the worldcat.org service
We have 0 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds
And it says it can't find title/authors from the book page, though from what I'm seeing it looks perfectly filled out. So I try putting in the ID of
another edition, and it magically works just fine. So I assume some sort of glitch on a few of the edition pages, which now that I understand I can work around easily enough, but I don't recall this being an issue before and I'm seeing it often enough I thought I'd bring it to your attention
