Add book via ISBN

[Karellen]

I have tried adding a book using Add From ISBN

The book I am adding is The Runaway Jury by John Grisham and adding it as an empty/stub file.

The ISBN on my pbook is 071266131X
When Calibre scrapes this title I end up with The Prayer of the Night Shepherd by Phil Rickman

The image shows my configuration, but I am not sure which site the wrong information is coming from.

Would anyone know why I scrape the wrong title?

[kovidgoyal]

Create an empty book, add the isbn to its metadata. The download metadata and click the view log button, that will tell you where the data is coming from.

[Karellen]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Create an empty book, add the isbn to its metadata. The download metadata and click the view log button, that will tell you where the data is coming from.

Thank you for the steps.
It is coming from Google Books. I guess whoever added the entry at google books made a type-o with the ISBN

Two results are found. How do you choose the other second result?

I have since added the entry manually, but in future, I now know how to check.

Thanks again.

Spoiler:

Running identify query with parameters:
{'title': None, 'authors': None, 'identifiers': {'isbn': '071266131X'}, 'timeout': 30}
Using plugins: Google (1, 0, 3), Amazon.com (1, 2, 23), Edelweiss (2, 0, 1)
The log from individual plugins is below

****************************** Google (1, 0, 3) ******************************
Found 2 results
Downloading from Google took 2.481839656829834


---
Title : The Prayer of the Night Shepherd
Author(s) : Phil Rickman
Publisher : Pan/Macmillan
Languages : eng
Published : 1996-02-15T05:10:28.882370+00:00
Identifiers : google:T3hhmgEACAAJ, isbn:9780712661317


---
Title : The Runaway Jury
Author(s) : John Grisham
Publisher : Century
Languages : eng
Published : 1996-02-15T05:10:29.412141+00:00
Identifiers : google:wss8YeLRqt8C, isbn:9780712661317
Comments : #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER They are at the center of a multimillion-dollar legal hurricane: twelve men and women who have been investigated, watched, manipulated, and harassed by high-priced lawyers and consultants who will stop at nothing to secure a verdict. Now the jury must make a decision in the most explosive civil trial of the century, a precedent-setting lawsuit against a giant tobacco company. But only a handful of people know the truth: that this jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him. He is known only as Juror #2. But he has a name, a past, and he has planned his every move with the help of a beautiful woman on the outside. Now, while a corporate empire hangs in the balance, while a grieving family waits, and while lawyers are plunged into a battle for their careers, the truth about Juror #2 is about to explode in a cross fire of greed and corruption--and with justice fighting for its life.
Making query: https://books.google.com/books/feeds...ewability=none

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

****************************** Amazon.com (1, 2, 23) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from Amazon.com took 1.6830151081085205
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36
Server: auto
Making google query: https://www.google.com/search?q=0712...www.amazon.com
Failed to find any results on results page, with title: 071266131X site:www.amazon.com - Google Search
No search engine results for terms: 071266131X
Trying the bing search engine instead
Making bing query: https://www.bing.com/search?q=071266...www.amazon.com
Failed to find any results on results page, with title: 071266131X site:www.amazon.com - Search
No search engine results for terms: 071266131X
No matches found with query: ['071266131X']

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

****************************** Edelweiss (2, 0, 1) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from Edelweiss took 0.03432059288024902
Currently Edelweiss returns random books for search queries

************************************************** ******************************
The identify phase took 2.67 seconds
The longest time (2.481840) was taken by: Google
Merging results from different sources
We have 1 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds

[Quoth]

The ISBN on my pbook is 071266131X

Modern ISBNs are purely digits and last one is a check digit. Also that's an old 10 digit code.
Usually the first three digits of an ISBN are now 978 = Bookland so it's compatible with UPC/EAN because ISBNs are for ordering a particular edition. The same title may have many ISBNs as each size or publisher of paperback of same content should be a different ISBN. Also a revision is supposed to have a different ISBN.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Karellen

I have tried adding a book using Add From ISBN

The book I am adding is The Runaway Jury by John Grisham and adding it as an empty/stub file.

The ISBN on my pbook is 071266131X
When Calibre scrapes this title I end up with The Prayer of the Night Shepherd by Phil Rickman

The image shows my configuration, but I am not sure which site the wrong information is coming from.

Would anyone know why I scrape the wrong title?

Calibre V 5.99.7 x64
I just tried using 'add from ISBN (on Add books , context menu) and prior to allowing 'download metadata' the Author and Title read Unknown
The results of the fetch (seems to be the same as Ctrl-D does) was the correct Author, Title And Cover

[Karellen]

Interesting that you got the correct title first up @theducks.
The api definitely returns two titles for me...
https://books.google.com/books/feeds...ewability=none

Thanks @Quoth, I understand that the same title can have many ISBN's, but I would never expect the same ISBN to be used on completely different titles.