Unable to download metadata

[Cubus]

Dear Kovid, I have just discovered your app and seems to be amazing, however I am still trying to understand how to use it.

And for some reason I can't download any metadata for my books at all. The app lets me find book covers, but when I ask to find metadata it can't.

Am I doing something wrong?

Please see the details below:

calibre, version 7.21.0
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:
{'title': 'The Coral Island', 'authors': ['Robert Michael Ballantyne'], 'identifiers': {}, 'timeout': 30}
Using plugins: Google (1, 1, 1), Amazon.com (1, 3, 10), Edelweiss (2, 0, 1)
The log from individual plugins is below

****************************** Google (1, 1, 1) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from Google took 30.32124400138855
Making query: https://books.google.com/books/feeds...ewability=none
Failed to make identify query: 'https://books.google.com/books/feeds/volumes?q=intitle%3ACoral+intitle%3AIsland%2Binaut hor%3ARobert+inauthor%3AMichael+inauthor%3ABallant yne&max-results=20&start-index=1&min-viewability=none'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 1238, in do_open
File "http/client.py", line 1378, in getresponse
File "http/client.py", line 318, in begin
File "http/client.py", line 279, in _read_status
File "socket.py", line 706, in readinto
File "ssl.py", line 1311, in recv_into
File "ssl.py", line 1167, in read
TimeoutError: The read operation timed out

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/google.py", line 517, in make_query
File "mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 241, in open_novisit
File "mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 287, in _mech_open
File "mechanize/_opener.py", line 193, in open
File "mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 425, in _open
File "mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 414, in _call_chain
File "calibre/utils/browser.py", line 29, in https_open
File "mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 1240, in do_open
urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error The read operation timed out>

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****************************** Amazon.com (1, 3, 10) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from Amazon.com took 1.8968729972839355
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Server: auto
Making bing query: https://www.bing.com/search?q=Coral+...www.amazon.com
Failed to find any results on results page, with title: Coral Island Robert Michael Ballantyne site:www.amazon.com - Поиск
No search engine results for terms: Coral Island Robert Michael Ballantyne
No matches found with query: ['Coral', 'Island', 'Robert', 'Michael', 'Ballantyne']

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****************************** Edelweiss (2, 0, 1) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from Edelweiss took 0.04207897186279297
Currently Edelweiss returns random books for search queries

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The identify phase took 30.43 seconds
The longest time (30.321244) was taken by: Google
Merging results from different sources
We have 0 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds

[DNSB]

I generally use the Kobo Metadata, Amazon using Amazon Canada servers and Smashwords metadata sources. I created an empty book with the title set to 'The Coral Island' and the author set to 'Robert Michael Ballantyne' and then tried to download the metadata. There were no issues with the download. When I tried to use Google, I got the same timeout errors that were in your log file.

Spoiler:

Running identify query with parameters:
{'title': 'The Coral Island', 'authors': ['Robert Michael Ballantyne'], 'identifiers': {}, 'timeout': 30}
Using plugins: Kobo Metadata (1, 8, 0), Smashwords Metadata (1, 0, 2), Amazon.com (1, 3, 10)
The log from individual plugins is below

****************************** Kobo Metadata (1, 8, 0) ******************************
Found 2 results
Downloading from Kobo Metadata took 10.695746421813965


---
Title : The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean
Author(s) : Robert Michael Ballantyne
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Tags : History, Religion & Spirituality, Fiction & Literature, Nonfiction, New Age
Languages : English
Published : 2021-02-24T00:00:00+00:00
Identifiers : isbn:9781465528483
Comments : b'<div class="synopsis-description" translate="no"><p>The beginning—My early life and character—I thirst for adventure in foreign lands and go to sea. Roving has always been, and still is, my ruling passion, the joy of my heart, the very sunshine of my existence. In childhood, in boyhood, and in man’s estate, I have been a rover; not a mere rambler among the woody glens and upon the hill-tops of my own native land, but an enthusiastic rover throughout the length and breadth of the wide wide world. It was a wild, black night of howling storm, the night in which I was born on the foaming bosom of the broad Atlantic Ocean. My father was a sea-captain; my grandfather was a sea-captain; my great-grandfather had been a marine. Nobody could tell positively what occupation his father had followed; but my dear mOther used to assert that he had been a midshipman, whose grandfather, on the mOther’s side, had been an admiral in the royal navy. At anyrate we knew that, as far back as our family could be traced, it had been intimately connected with the great watery waste. Indeed this was the case on both sides of the house; for my mOther always went to sea with my father on his long voyages, and so spent the greater part of her life upon the water</p>\n</div> \r\n '


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Title : Robinsonade Collection vol 1: A Selection Of Classic Castaway Narratives (Golden Deer Classics)
Author(s) : Daniel Defoe & Johann David Wyss & Robert Michael Ballantyne & Jules Verne & H. G. Wells & Golden Deer Classics
Publisher : Oregan Publishing
Tags : Classics, Anthologies, Fiction & Literature
Languages : English
Published : 2017-02-16T00:00:00+00:00
Identifiers : isbn:9782956006718
Comments : b'<div class="synopsis-description" translate="no"><p>Robinsonade is a literary genre that takes its name from the 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. The success of this novel spawned so many imitations that its name was used to define a genre, which is sometimes described simply as a "desert island story"or a "castaway narrative." This compilation, edited by Golden Deer Classics, comprises the following stories: Robinson Crusoe (1719) Swiss Family Robinson (1812) The Coral Island (1858) The Mysterious Island (1874) Godfrey Morgan (1882) The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896)</p>\n</div> \r\n '
KoboMetadata::identify: title: The Coral Island, authors: ['Robert Michael Ballantyne'], identifiers: {}
KoboMetadata::perform_search: Searching with query: The Coral Island Robert Michael Ballantyne
KoboMetadata::perform_query: Searching for book with url: [url]https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/search?query=The+Coral+Island+Robert+Michael+Balla ntyne&fcmedia=Book&pageNumber=1&fclanguages=en[/url]
KoboMetadata::parse_search_page: Detected new search page
KoboMetadata::fetch_metadata: Looking up metadata with url: [url]https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/robinsonade-collection-vol-1-a-selection-of-classic-castaway-narratives-golden-deer-classics[/url]
KoboMetadata::parse_book_page: Got title: Robinsonade Collection vol 1: A Selection Of Classic Castaway Narratives (Golden Deer Classics)
KoboMetadata::parse_book_page: Got authors: ['Daniel Defoe', 'Johann David Wyss', 'Robert Michael Ballantyne', 'Jules Verne', 'H. G. Wells', 'Golden Deer Classics']
KoboMetadata::parse_book_page: Got publisher: Oregan Publishing
KoboMetadata::parse_book_page: Got pubdate: 2017-02-16 00:00:00+00:00
KoboMetadata::parse_book_page: Got isbn: 9782956006718
KoboMetadata::parse_book_page: Got language: English
KoboMetadata::parse_book_page: Got tags: {'Classics', 'Anthologies', 'Fiction & Literature'}
KoboMetadata::parse_book_page: Got comments: b'<div class="synopsis-description" translate="no"><p>Robinsonade is a literary genre that takes its name from the 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. The success of this novel spawned so many imitations that its name was used to define a genre, which is sometimes described simply as a "desert island story"or a "castaway narrative." This compilation, edited by Golden Deer Classics, comprises the following stories: Robinson Crusoe (1719) Swiss Family Robinson (1812) The Coral Island (1858) The Mysterious Island (1874) Godfrey Morgan (1882) The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896)</p>\n</div> \r\n '
KoboMetadata::parse_book_page_for_cover: Got cover: [url]https://cdn.kobo.com/book-images/5986951b-7263-4538-9aa5-ea64152a8c66/robinsonade-collection-vol-1-a-selection-of-classic-castaway-narratives-golden-deer-classics.jpg[/url]
KoboMetadata::fetch_metadata: Looking up metadata with url: [url]https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/the-coral-island-a-tale-of-the-pacific-ocean-6[/url]
KoboMetadata::parse_book_page: Got title: The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean
KoboMetadata::parse_book_page: Got authors: ['Robert Michael Ballantyne']
KoboMetadata::parse_book_page: Got publisher: Library of Alexandria
KoboMetadata::parse_book_page: Got pubdate: 2021-02-24 00:00:00+00:00
KoboMetadata::parse_book_page: Got isbn: 9781465528483
KoboMetadata::parse_book_page: Got language: English
KoboMetadata::parse_book_page: Got tags: {'History', 'Religion & Spirituality', 'Fiction & Literature', 'Nonfiction', 'New Age'}
KoboMetadata::parse_book_page: Got comments: b'<div class="synopsis-description" translate="no"><p>The beginning—My early life and character—I thirst for adventure in foreign lands and go to sea. Roving has always been, and still is, my ruling passion, the joy of my heart, the very sunshine of my existence. In childhood, in boyhood, and in man’s estate, I have been a rover; not a mere rambler among the woody glens and upon the hill-tops of my own native land, but an enthusiastic rover throughout the length and breadth of the wide wide world. It was a wild, black night of howling storm, the night in which I was born on the foaming bosom of the broad Atlantic Ocean. My father was a sea-captain; my grandfather was a sea-captain; my great-grandfather had been a marine. Nobody could tell positively what occupation his father had followed; but my dear mOther used to assert that he had been a midshipman, whose grandfather, on the mOther’s side, had been an admiral in the royal navy. At anyrate we knew that, as far back as our family could be traced, it had been intimately connected with the great watery waste. Indeed this was the case on both sides of the house; for my mOther always went to sea with my father on his long voyages, and so spent the greater part of her life upon the water</p>\n</div> \r\n '
KoboMetadata::parse_book_page_for_cover: Got cover: [url]https://cdn.kobo.com/book-images/6f40a216-843d-4cd5-97b9-a411aa1f4a39/the-coral-island-a-tale-of-the-pacific-ocean-6.jpg[/url]

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****************************** Smashwords Metadata (1, 0, 2) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from Smashwords Metadata took 1.8583736419677734
Querying: [url]https://www.smashwords.com/books/search?query=The+Coral+Island[/url]
No Full Search section. Has the page changed?
Building match list from found_ids: []
Matches: []
No matches found with query: 'https://www.smashwords.com/books/search?query=The+Coral+Island'

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****************************** Amazon.com (1, 3, 10) ******************************
Found 3 results
Downloading from Amazon.com took 7.467735052108765


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Title : The Coral Island
Author(s) : Robert Michael Ballantyne & R M Ballantyne & 1st World Publishing
Publisher : 1st World Publishing
Languages : eng
Rating : 2.1
Published : 2013-07-25T00:00:00+00:00
Identifiers : amazon_ca:1421850850, isbn:9781421850856
Comments : <p>Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at [url]www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG[/url] - - Roving has always been, and still is, my ruling passion, the joy of my heart, the very sunshine of my existence. In childhood, in boyhood, and in man's estate, I have been a rover; not a mere rambler among the woody glens and upon the hilltops of my own n</p>


---
Title : The Coral Island
Author(s) : Robert Michael Ballantyne & Minerva´s Owl
Publisher : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Languages : eng
Rating : 2
Published : 2016-05-09T00:00:00+00:00
Identifiers : amazon_ca:1533159521, isbn:9781533159526
Comments : <p>Robert Michael Ballantyne (24 April 1825 – 8 February 1894) was a Scottish author of juvenile fiction who wrote more than 100 books. He was also an accomplished artist, and exhibited some of his water-colours at the Royal Scottish Academy.</p>


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Title : The Coral Island
Author(s) : R. M. (robert Michael) Ballantyne
Languages : eng
Rating : 2
Identifiers : amazon_ca:B00840150M
Comments : <p>This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.</p>
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Server: amazon
Downloading details from: [url]https://www.amazon.ca/Coral-Island-Robert-Michael-Ballantyne-ebook/dp/B00840150M/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.8ZmKLmwGUz83gW35oOgZSj qPZg4Kgcx7vNvjkBBUOuGz0nYYlEG_hccxIwMiQhL9ajoBvwy6 IBao7Jo3QBDbvJMMknAcG6vfI2vPXmwDAACVJKDaADnZ-WFCDJlR2sMd9DoWUmVRCHHZdoxW3LyNegKX3kL4G0F9xdV8YeT oipFKfFD55g2RsTMdijOolLQACG_V9g8tSjflkOhbgbogxfmSI 4sYDu_aEiToG6nzwAo.5K7is3PehPqDN2lfU9RMT5qIr-5HlulcGD_LkW_fi0w&dib_tag=se&qid=1732816856&refine ments=p_28%3ACoral+Island%2Cp_27%3ARobert+Michael+ Ballantyne&s=books&sr=1-1&unfiltered=1[/url]
Downloading details from: [url]https://www.amazon.ca/Coral-Island-Robert-Michael-Ballantyne/dp/1533159521/ref=sr_1_2?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.8ZmKLmwGUz83gW35oOgZSj qPZg4Kgcx7vNvjkBBUOuGz0nYYlEG_hccxIwMiQhL9ajoBvwy6 IBao7Jo3QBDbvJMMknAcG6vfI2vPXmwDAACVJKDaADnZ-WFCDJlR2sMd9DoWUmVRCHHZdoxW3LyNegKX3kL4G0F9xdV8YeT oipFKfFD55g2RsTMdijOolLQACG_V9g8tSjflkOhbgbogxfmSI 4sYDu_aEiToG6nzwAo.5K7is3PehPqDN2lfU9RMT5qIr-5HlulcGD_LkW_fi0w&dib_tag=se&qid=1732816856&refine ments=p_28%3ACoral+Island%2Cp_27%3ARobert+Michael+ Ballantyne&s=books&sr=1-2&unfiltered=1[/url]
Downloading details from: [url]https://www.amazon.ca/Coral-Island-Robert-Michael-Ballantyne/dp/1421850850/ref=sr_1_3?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.8ZmKLmwGUz83gW35oOgZSj qPZg4Kgcx7vNvjkBBUOuGz0nYYlEG_hccxIwMiQhL9ajoBvwy6 IBao7Jo3QBDbvJMMknAcG6vfI2vPXmwDAACVJKDaADnZ-WFCDJlR2sMd9DoWUmVRCHHZdoxW3LyNegKX3kL4G0F9xdV8YeT oipFKfFD55g2RsTMdijOolLQACG_V9g8tSjflkOhbgbogxfmSI 4sYDu_aEiToG6nzwAo.5K7is3PehPqDN2lfU9RMT5qIr-5HlulcGD_LkW_fi0w&dib_tag=se&qid=1732816856&refine ments=p_28%3ACoral+Island%2Cp_27%3ARobert+Michael+ Ballantyne&s=books&sr=1-3&unfiltered=1[/url]

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The identify phase took 10.84 seconds
The longest time (10.695746) was taken by: Kobo Metadata
Merging results from different sources
We have 5 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds

[BetterRed]

Moderator Notice

@Cubus - I moved your issue into it's own thread, the one you added to referred to one specific book.

BR

[BetterRed]

I noticed this:

Making bing query: https://www.bing.com/search?q=Coral+...www.amazon.com
Failed to find any results on results page, with title: Coral Island Robert Michael Ballantyne site:www.amazon.com - Поиск

Russian ?

BR