Can't Find Amazon Metadata for Any Books

[hurr88icane]

For quite a while now Calibre has not found any metadata from Amazon for any book in my library. I've been using the default metadata search options, I've never changed anything, and it seems like if the book doesn't exist on Google Books, then metadata search fails. In the error example below, the Amazon output states "no results found" but if you copy/paste the URLs, there are results found but I have no idea how Calibre is supposed to interpret those results. It's not really a huge deal, I've been manually copy/pasting book summary over for everything I've been adding, but it is certainly a pain. Does anybody have any advice or a solution for me?



Sample Error
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calibre, version 7.26.0
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': 'Skyvenom', 'authors': ['Sarah Lin'], 'identifiers': {'mobi-asin': 'B0DWXXLW2X'}, 'timeout': 30}
Using plugins: Google (1, 1, 1), Amazon.com (1, 3, 12)
The log from individual plugins is below

****************************** Google (1, 1, 1) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from Google took 1.071972131729126
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=Skyv...ah+Lin&tbm=bks
Plugin Google failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\identify.py", line 47, in run
File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\google.py", line 534, in identify
File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\google.py", line 439, in identify_via_web_search
File "contextlib.py", line 155, in __exit__
File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\search_engines.py ", line 58, in rate_limit
File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\search_engines.py ", line 100, in query
File "mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 241, in open_novisit
File "mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 313, in _mech_open
mechanize._response.get_seek_wrapper_class.<locals >.httperror_seek_wrapper: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

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

****************************** Amazon.com (1, 3, 12) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from Amazon.com took 4.050941228866577
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/132.0.0.0
Server: auto
Making bing query: https://www.bing.com/search?q=Skyven...www.amazon.com
Bing returned no results
No search engine results for terms: Skyvenom Sarah Lin
No matches found with identifiers, retrying using only title and authors. Query: ['Skyvenom', 'Sarah', 'Lin']
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/132.0.0.0
Server: auto
Making bing query: https://www.bing.com/search?q=Skyven...www.amazon.com
Bing returned no results
No search engine results for terms: Skyvenom Sarah Lin
No matches found with query: ['Skyvenom', 'Sarah', 'Lin']

************************************************** ******************************
The identify phase took 4.21 seconds
The longest time (4.050941) was taken by: Amazon.com
Merging results from different sources
We have 0 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds

[kovidgoyal]

Try changing the amazon server from auto to amazon. Go to preferences->metadata download and customise the amazon plugin

[hurr88icane]

I made the change but it still did not work. The error output has changed though.


****************************** Amazon.com (1, 3, 12) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from Amazon.com took 1.5363006591796875
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Server: amazon
Failed to make identify query: 'https://www.amazon.com/s/?search-alias=stripbooks&unfiltered=1&sort=relevanceexpran k&field-title=Skyvenom&field-author=Sarah+Lin'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\amazon.py", line 1511, in search_amazon
File "mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 241, in open_novisit
File "mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 313, in _mech_open
mechanize._response.get_seek_wrapper_class.<locals >.httperror_seek_wrapper: HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable

[kovidgoyal]

Then I suggest installing one of the other metadata plugins looks like both amazon and google are blocking your IP

[hurr88icane]

Thanks for the responses. I've installed the Goodreads plugin and it's working no problem. I appreciate your time!

[rola25]

I have the same problem, the metadata download does not work anymore ... I tried it from different IP addresses at home/work/via VPN

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by hurr88icane

Thanks for the responses. I've installed the Goodreads plugin and it's working no problem. I appreciate your time!

You do need to manually check the metadata because Goodreads is full of errors. And because you have to manually check the metadata, you may as well just manually enter it.

This is why I don't download metadata. too many errors and because I have to make sure it's correct, I may as well do it manually.

[rola25]

Suddenly it works again with amazon.de, dont know why ...