[GUI Plugin] FTS Plus

[Comfy.n]

FTS+

Full text search with additional features



Installation
1. Download the latest release zip.
2. Preferences -> Plug-ins -> Load Plugin from File.
3. Select the zip, install, and restart Calibre.

License
This plugin is licensed under the GNU GPL v3.

Compatibility
- Calibre 6.25.0 or later
- Windows, macOS, Linux

Release notes

Spoiler:

Version 2.0.1
- Fix Enter not working properly on search bar
- Jump to snippet location on reflowable formats, when using internal viewer

Version 2.0
- Open FTS in your browser
- customisable context menu search on text selection
- Compact listing option
- Experimental: multi-libraries FTS
- new progress spinner - ports upcoming calibre implementation by @kovidgoyal

Version 1.1.0
- UI and performance adjustments

Version 1.0.1
- left panel made scrollable
- some fixes for calibre 6
- expanded sortability
- Spanish translation revision, thanks to @dunhill

Version 1.0
- initial release

[Comfy.n]

reserved

[dunhill]

Great work! I loved the cover art. Here's the full Spanish translation.

[Comfy.n]

Originally Posted by dunhill

Great work! I loved the cover art. Here's the full Spanish translation.

Thank you! Will be included in the next release.
Displaying covers alongside the results was my primary goal, I'm glad you liked it.

[bluefish2020]

I would have found it helpful to have instructions for enabling full text indexing in the installation steps or in the plugin itself. I don't think I have ever realized that the 'FT' icon was clickable.

Also, the UI is quite tall, and not vertically resizable. The scaling on my macbook pushes the Close button awkwardly below the Dock.

And now I wait for indexing to complete!

[Comfy.n]

Originally Posted by bluefish2020

I don't think I have ever realized that the 'FT' icon was clickable.!

Yup, calibre is full of surprises; I learn something new every day to this day.

I wonder what's your screen resolution? Would be awesome to have this info more discoverable for plugin development... Anyway, next version will have a more sensible dialog min-height.

[bluefish2020]

Originally Posted by Comfy.n

I wonder what's your screen resolution? Would be awesome to have this info more discoverable for plugin development... Anyway, next version will have a more sensible dialog min-height.

The Displays setting for Scaled says 'looks like 1312x848'. (actual is 3456 x 2234 Retina which renders text unreadable for me.)

A couple other things I ran into after the indexing was finished:

Using calibre 6.29

Clicking 'Google' on a search result raises
ERROR: Custom action failed: TemplateFormatter.safe_format() got an unexpected keyword argument 'database'


Clicking "Show in library" raises:

ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>AttributeError</b>:'Main' object has no attribute 'raise_and_focus'

calibre 6.29 embedded-python: True
macOS-12.6.1-arm64-arm-64bit Darwin ('64bit', '')
('Darwin', '21.6.0', 'Darwin Kernel Version 21.6.0: Thu Sep 29 20:13:56 PDT 2022; root:xnu-8020.240.7~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000')
Python 3.10.1
OSX: ('12.6.1', ('', '', ''), 'arm64')
Interface language: None
Successfully initialized third party plugins: DeACSM (0, 0, 16) && DeDRM (10, 0, 3) && Action Chains (1, 20, 10) && Add Files To Selected Book (1, 0, 0) && Barnes & Noble (1, 5, 7) && Count Pages (1, 13, 7) && EpubSplit (3, 12, 0) && FTS+ (1, 0, 0) && Favourites Menu (1, 3, 1) && Find Exclusive Tags (1, 0, 0) && Generate Cover (2, 3, 6) && Goodreads (1, 8, 3) && Modify ePub (1, 8, 6) && OverDrive Libby (0, 2, 102) && Quality Check (1, 14, 2) && Reading List (1, 15, 6) && Search The Internet (1, 11, 3) && Sum Column (0, 3, 3) && Sum It Up (1, 0, 0) && Unread In Series (1, 0, 0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre_plugins.fts_plus.ui", line 2451, in _locate_book
jump_to_book(book_id, self)
File "calibre_plugins.fts_plus.ui", line 649, in jump_to_book
gui.raise_and_focus()
AttributeError: 'Main' object has no attribute 'raise_and_focus'

[Comfy.n]

Thanks so much for your detailed feedback @bluefish2020!

Version 1.0.1

- left panel made scrollable
- some fixes for calibre 6
- expanded sortability
- Spanish translation revision, thanks to @dunhill

[Comfy.n]

Version 1.1.0

UI and performance adjustments

[BetterRed]

Any thoughts on multiple library searches?

BR

[Comfy.n]

Hmm hadnt thought of that. I think the snippet extraction is taking longer than ideal, and that's just for one library, but if I can improve this, that's probably implementable.

Kovid is doing some enhancements to FTS feature, so we can hope good things to come from core calibre as well.

[bluefish2020]

Originally Posted by Comfy.n

Version 1.1.0

UI and performance adjustments

The resizable/scrolling left pane makes such a huge difference, and the buttons work correctly now in 6.29. Thanks :

[Comfy.n]

Version 2.0

- Open FTS Plus results in your browser
- Customisable context menu search on text selection
- Compact listing option
- Experimental: multi-libraries FTS
- New progress spinner - ports upcoming calibre implementation by @kovidgoyal

[bluefish2020]

Yay for marking all the books in one click!

Bit confusing when you press enter after typing a search term. The UI quickly reports 0 books, stopped AND "Searching, please wait...". I knew the result was going to be 970 books so waited quite a while.

[Comfy.n]

Yo, thanks so much again for the good catch. From a quick test I made, I see this doesn't happen when clicking the search button, so the issue seems restricted to the keyboard action. I'm trying to finish a new plugin today for dictionaries, then later I will see if I can release a hotfix.