Failed to download metadata and cover for an existig ISBN

halloleo · 11-10-2023, 04:08 AM

I want to add the book "The Wife and the Widow" with ISBN 9781528879552.

However calibre returns the following error message:

"ERROR: Download failed: Failed to download metadata or cover for the selected book.

Unknown (Failed metadata) (Failed cover)"

Why's that? - And what can I do about it?

Many thanks for pointers!

kovidgoyal · 11-10-2023, 09:27 AM

look at the log by clicking the view log button

halloleo · 11-10-2023, 06:02 PM

Thanks Kovid.

Here the log info:

Code:

#################### Log for Unknown ####################
Running identify query with parameters: 
{'title': None, 'authors': None, 'identifiers': {'isbn': '9781528879552'}, 'timeout': 30} 
Using plugins: Goodreads (1, 7, 8), Google (1, 1, 1), Amazon.com (1, 3, 5) 
The log from individual plugins is below 

****************************** Goodreads (1, 7, 8) ****************************** 
Found 0 results 
Downloading from Goodreads took 1.048785924911499 
identify - start. title=None, authors=None, identifiers={'isbn': '9781528879552'}
get_goodreads_id_from_identifiers - isbn=9781528879552
get_goodreads_id_using_api - identifiers=9781528879552
Querying using autocomplete API: https://www.goodreads.com/book/auto_...=9781528879552
JSON Result: b'[]'
Result using autocomplete API: None
Insufficient metadata to construct query 

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****************************** Google (1, 1, 1) ****************************** 
Found 0 results 
Downloading from Google took 3.8446710109710693 
Making query: https://books.google.com/books/feeds...ewability=none
No results found, doing a web search instead
Making query: https://www.google.com/search?q=9781528879552&tbm=bks
Failed to find any results on results page, with title: 9781528879552 - Google Search 

******************************************************************************** 

****************************** Amazon.com (1, 3, 5) ****************************** 
Found 0 results 
Downloading from Amazon.com took 0.8946192264556885 
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:86.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/86.0
Server: auto
Making google query: https://www.google.com/search?q=%289...www.amazon.com
Failed to find any results on results page, with title: (9781528879552 or 978-1528879552) site:www.amazon.com - Google Search
No search engine results for terms: (9781528879552 OR 978-1528879552)
Trying the bing search engine instead
Making bing query: https://www.bing.com/search?q=%28978...www.amazon.com
Failed to find any results on results page, with title: (9781528879552 or 978-1528879552) site:www.amazon.com - Search
No search engine results for terms: (9781528879552 OR 978-1528879552)
No matches found with query: ['(9781528879552', 'OR', '978-1528879552)'] 

******************************************************************************** 
The identify phase took 4.03 seconds 
The longest time (3.844671) was taken by: Google 
Merging results from different sources 
We have 0 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds 
Failed to download metadata for Unknown 

****************************** Goodreads Covers ****************************** 
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.141 Safari/537.36 Edg/87.0.664.75')] 
Failed to download valid cover 
Took 0.9695470333099365 seconds 
No cached cover found, running identify
identify - start. title=None, authors=None, identifiers={'isbn': '9781528879552'}
get_goodreads_id_from_identifiers - isbn=9781528879552
get_goodreads_id_using_api - identifiers=9781528879552
Querying using autocomplete API: https://www.goodreads.com/book/auto_...=9781528879552
JSON Result: b'[]'
Result using autocomplete API: None
Insufficient metadata to construct query
No cover found 

******************************************************************************** 

****************************** Google Images Covers ****************************** 
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.87 Safari/537.36')] 
Failed to download valid cover 
Took 5.9604644775390625e-06 seconds 

******************************************************************************** 

****************************** Amazon.com Covers ****************************** 
Request extra headers: [('Accept', 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8'), ('Upgrade-insecure-requests', '1'), ('Referer', 'https://www.bing.com/search?q=%289781528879552+or+978-1528879552%29+site%3Awww.amazon.com'), ('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.146 Safari/537.36')] 
Downloaded cover: 348x522 
Took 14.320723056793213 seconds 
No cached cover found, running identify
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.90 Safari/537.36
Server: auto
Making google query: https://www.google.com/search?q=%289...www.amazon.com
Failed to find any results on results page, with title: (9781528879552 or 978-1528879552) site:www.amazon.com - Google Search
No search engine results for terms: (9781528879552 OR 978-1528879552)
Trying the bing search engine instead
Making bing query: https://www.bing.com/search?q=%28978...www.amazon.com
Ignoring 'Amazon.com' as it has no cached page
Skipping non-book result: Result(url='https://www.amazon.com/books-used-books-textbooks/b?node=283155', title='Amazon.com: Books', cached_url='https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=%289781528879552+or+978-1528879552%29+site%3Awww.amazon.com&d=5004500508028420&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=sJnZpcgz7vTjyL4B3PEbqVoa0naUF-Ct')
Skipping non-book result: Result(url='https://www.amazon.com/b?node=17495918011', title='Amazon.com: Kindle Books', cached_url='https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=%289781528879552+or+978-1528879552%29+site%3Awww.amazon.com&d=4793553187700786&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=r5LJgRReKJuD2wPFGfikTxycavILXKFm')
Skipping non-book result: Result(url='https://www.amazon.com/', title='Amazon.com. Spend less. Smile more.', cached_url='https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=%289781528879552+or+978-1528879552%29+site%3Awww.amazon.com&d=5013004549898064&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=28SLGHztWhDnptgZ4HJP0gcv0bfvCntD')
Skipping non-book result: Result(url='https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html%3FnodeId%3DG6LDPN7YJHYKH2J6', title='Amazon Prime - Amazon Customer Service', cached_url='https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=%289781528879552+or+978-1528879552%29+site%3Awww.amazon.com&d=4910999075238841&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=SqRrrTjBzby5Q6QKtLFaArDaBQiscEGS')
Skipping non-book result: Result(url='https://www.amazon.com/Kindle-eBooks/b?node=154606011', title='Kindle eBooks | Amazon Smile', cached_url='https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=%289781528879552+or+978-1528879552%29+site%3Awww.amazon.com&d=4962590223040877&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=N4MFCkBLrnLQuZj7cVUhV1myxyeS4kMq')
Skipping non-book result: Result(url='https://www.amazon.com/amazonprime', title='Amazon.com: Amazon Prime', cached_url='https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=%289781528879552+or+978-1528879552%29+site%3Awww.amazon.com&d=4801593373434107&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=hPAk__p3LSeHgz8VT_KirJC6H3YSEOvB')
Skipping non-book result: Result(url='https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/hz/bookshelf/prime', title='Prime members access free eBooks, audiobooks, …', cached_url='https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=%289781528879552+or+978-1528879552%29+site%3Awww.amazon.com&d=4537886672113239&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=hn2sIfIzh7QPl_UZnqN91P3MSJTPXPzo')
Downloading details from: https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=%2...o7EGB8rlNzqC-f
Downloading details from: https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=%2...9kvdc2z7gblr0N
Downloading cover from: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/...7L._SY522_.jpg 

******************************************************************************** 

****************************** Open Library Covers ****************************** 
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko')] 
Failed to download valid cover 
Took 0.9919159412384033 seconds 
No cover for ISBN: '9781528879552' found 

******************************************************************************** 

****************************** Big Book Search Covers ****************************** 
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.87 Safari/537.36')] 
Failed to download valid cover 
Took 3.814697265625e-06 seconds 

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It looks like the listed sources do not have this ISBN.

Can I add sources to calibre? And which sources are particularly good for these kind of ISBNs (Audiobooks)?

BetterRed · 11-10-2023, 08:01 PM

Each source requires it's own plugin. I'm not aware of any audiobook specific metadata download plugins.

Code:

identify - start. title=None, authors=None, identifiers={'isbn': '9781528879552'}

I would enter the book title and author into the metadata and try the download again.

BR

DNSB · 11-10-2023, 08:21 PM

For what it's worth, I tried creating an empty book with the title, author and ISBN (either audio or ebook) and multiple sources supplied covers though those covers seemed to match the ebook edition with no audio (square) covers supplied.

kovidgoyal · 11-10-2023, 10:41 PM

If it fails with only an isbn then add title and author as well

halloleo · 11-13-2023, 02:28 AM

Thanks for all the tips.

Trouble is all the coveres in metadata details which comes back are from the paper book (by Hachette), not from the audio book (by Wavesound).

I guess this is just what it is: Audiobook metadata are always sooo hard to find...

DNSB · 11-13-2023, 07:15 PM

For this book, when I added kobo:the-wife-and-the-widow to the Ids field, the Kobo Book plugin returned the audio book cover though the Kobo Metadata only returned the ebook cover.

11-10-2023, 04:08 AM	#1
halloleo Groupie Posts: 156 Karma: 12649 Join Date: Feb 2020 Device: iPad	Failed to download metadata and cover for an existig ISBN I want to add the book "The Wife and the Widow" with ISBN 9781528879552. However calibre returns the following error message: "ERROR: Download failed: Failed to download metadata or cover for the selected book. Unknown (Failed metadata) (Failed cover)" Why's that? - And what can I do about it? Many thanks for pointers!

11-10-2023, 08:01 PM	#4
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 22,030 Karma: 30277294 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	Each source requires it's own plugin. I'm not aware of any audiobook specific metadata download plugins. Code: identify - start. title=None, authors=None, identifiers={'isbn': '9781528879552'} I would enter the book title and author into the metadata and try the download again. BR

11-10-2023, 08:21 PM	#5
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 48,260 Karma: 174315444 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	For what it's worth, I tried creating an empty book with the title, author and ISBN (either audio or ebook) and multiple sources supplied covers though those covers seemed to match the ebook edition with no audio (square) covers supplied. Attached Thumbnails

11-13-2023, 07:15 PM	#8
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 48,260 Karma: 174315444 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	For this book, when I added kobo:the-wife-and-the-widow to the Ids field, the Kobo Book plugin returned the audio book cover though the Kobo Metadata only returned the ebook cover. Attached Thumbnails

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11-10-2023, 09:27 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,616 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	look at the log by clicking the view log button

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kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,616 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	If it fails with only an isbn then add title and author as well

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halloleo Groupie Posts: 156 Karma: 12649 Join Date: Feb 2020 Device: iPad	Thanks for all the tips. Trouble is all the coveres in metadata details which comes back are from the paper book (by Hachette), not from the audio book (by Wavesound). I guess this is just what it is: Audiobook metadata are always sooo hard to find...

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