Metadata involving Calibre server

Ahnexia · 07-08-2017, 11:44 PM

Trying to figure out the best way to do this

Is there a way to force refresh metadata in your calibre library via command line preferably by searching the entire folder instead of having to change the command for each individual book.

I am running it on a headless server so I don't have access to the gui portion of the program.

Currently I don't think it is grabbing meta data at all, although I could be wrong I would preferably like to get the metadata from goodreads

I Think I would probably have to do it with the calibredb command but I have no Idea if it even allows for such a thing

kovidgoyal · 07-08-2017, 11:47 PM

I'm not sure what you are asking. If you mean you want calibre to download metadata for books in a library serverd using calibre-server, then the way to do it is by combining calibredb and fetch-ebook-metadata. Read the manual pages for both those tools.

Ahnexia · 07-09-2017, 12:00 AM

That is one of my issues, fetch-ebook-metadata doesn't seem to be an acceptable command for calibredb

and on the fetch-ebook-metadata page it says it only takes options like authors covers help ect.

Command I would be trying would be calibredb fetch-ebook-metadata (Rest of stuff)
Quotations are not there of course

kovidgoyal · 07-09-2017, 12:03 AM

fetch-ebook-metadata --opf

calibredb set_metadata --from-opf

07-08-2017, 11:44 PM	#1
Ahnexia Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2017 Device: None	Metadata involving Calibre server Trying to figure out the best way to do this Is there a way to force refresh metadata in your calibre library via command line preferably by searching the entire folder instead of having to change the command for each individual book. I am running it on a headless server so I don't have access to the gui portion of the program. Currently I don't think it is grabbing meta data at all, although I could be wrong I would preferably like to get the metadata from goodreads I Think I would probably have to do it with the calibredb command but I have no Idea if it even allows for such a thing

07-09-2017, 12:00 AM	#3
Ahnexia Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2017 Device: None	That is one of my issues, fetch-ebook-metadata doesn't seem to be an acceptable command for calibredb and on the fetch-ebook-metadata page it says it only takes options like authors covers help ect. Command I would be trying would be calibredb fetch-ebook-metadata (Rest of stuff) Quotations are not there of course Last edited by Ahnexia; 07-09-2017 at 12:03 AM.

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07-08-2017, 11:47 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,345 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	I'm not sure what you are asking. If you mean you want calibre to download metadata for books in a library serverd using calibre-server, then the way to do it is by combining calibredb and fetch-ebook-metadata. Read the manual pages for both those tools.

07-09-2017, 12:03 AM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,345 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	fetch-ebook-metadata --opf calibredb set_metadata --from-opf

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