[Metadata Source Plugin] Apple Books covers

[Majutsushi]

This is a bit tricky as the iTunes API is apparently somewhat inconsistent when searching for both the author and the title at the same time, as the plugin is currently doing to avoid false positives for common titles. You can see that even on the website you linked where searching for "The Fifth Season Jemisin" yields no results either (whereas something like "lord of the rings tolkien" works fine). Looks like I'll have to make the code smarter about querying more broadly and then filtering manually.

[Majutsushi]

This new release makes the search functionality smarter, which should result in covers being found for more books, and irrelevant results being filtered out.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by hestepige123

I've been using the Apple covers for manually adding covers to my library for some time. I was very pleased to see that this plugin existed for automating it. I've been running into some problems though, and the plugin isn't nearly as consistent as I'd hoped. I'd like to thank you for developing it nonetheless.

The website I had been using for manual searching is this:
https://bendodson.com/projects/itunes-artwork-finder/

... which I assume is using the same database as this plugin, since it's iTunes/Apple?

If that is the case, then searching for "The Fifth Season" (just one example) on this website returns a high resolution cover. In Calibre the plugin doesn't return any hits from the US at all, while the UK returns a number of covers, all of them wrong.

Any idea what the issue might be?

I've been trying this URL today and I dcan get the standard resolution but not the high resolution.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Majutsushi

This new release makes the search functionality smarter, which should result in covers being found for more books, and irrelevant results being filtered out.

I'm finding this is not working as well as it used to be.