[Store Plugin] Open Calibre Store

[Ketzah]

The plugin aims to add a store function to Calibre for adding networked or remote Calibre OPDS servers as a searchable store.

Basic Features:
- Searches multiple Open Calibre servers
- Works with LAN libraries
- Supports IP addresses and hostnames
- HTTP and HTTPS support
- Basic authentication support
- OPDS feed parsing
- Duplicate result filtering
- Book downloads through Calibre

Configuration:
In the plugins, the customize plugin allows you to save the servers and also has an option to test. When testing, it uses the IP: port to verify OPDS access to make sure it's available; otherwise, it times out
(you can test it outside this function by just going to the IP: port in your browser and seeing if Calibre displays)

Usage:
Once servers have been added, you can configure it in "Get books" to use the
"Open Calibre Store". After doing that, it will search networked/remote servers for specific books/authors/keywords; if the remote server has matches, they will be displayed. From there, you can download or show in store. When downloading, it will prompt for format if the network/remote server has multiple formats. Show in store will take you to the book detail OPDS page for the book on the network/remote server. When downloading, it will also pull metadata from the server if available.

Remarks:
I've only tested it on Calibre OPDS, not any other OPDS systems.
Tested in Version:9.12.0 on Windows.
I've set a tentative requirement of Version: 9.0.0.
I've not tested password-protected OPDS servers, but I did build a basic function to handle it.
Plugin tested and working as of 8/6/26.

Disclosure:
AI was used to debug and troubleshoot issues.
I will not be providing Open Calibre OPDS servers for use with this plugin.

Todo: (Would be nice, provided I get time.)
Add a bulk server add/test to customize.
Retest existing servers in list and remove inaccessible ones

Feel free to leave feedback.

[Ketzah]

Found a small bug that forced all downloads to be formatted in .epub; even if the download was .mobi or something else, it would save as .epub and would open as a broken zip file; fixed and tested.

Updated version to 1.0.3

[Ketzah]

New features:
Bulk server add/test to customize.
Retest existing servers in the list and remove inaccessible ones

Version Updated to 1.2.0

[dunhill]

I get this error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre/gui2/actions/store.py", line 129, in open_store
TypeError: OpenCalibreStore.open() missing 1 required positional argument: 'detail_item'

[Ketzah]

Originally Posted by dunhill

I get this error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre/gui2/actions/store.py", line 129, in open_store
TypeError: OpenCalibreStore.open() missing 1 required positional argument: 'detail_item'

Are you using version 1.2.0?

[Ketzah]

Originally Posted by dunhill

I get this error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre/gui2/actions/store.py", line 129, in open_store
TypeError: OpenCalibreStore.open() missing 1 required positional argument: 'detail_item'

Not being able to edit posts after a very short timeframe is a mess

I'll need some more details to troubleshoot this. Can you DM me some info
: what server, what book:
It looks like the issue is the "show in store" option. But I can't quite nail down if it's the server or the plugin, because it works in version 1.2.0, but I can only test on the servers I have, and they are currently working.

[Ketzah]

Originally Posted by dunhill

I get this error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre/gui2/actions/store.py", line 129, in open_store
TypeError: OpenCalibreStore.open() missing 1 required positional argument: 'detail_item'

Not being able to edit posts is a mess,

I'll need more details to troubleshoot this.
Can you DM me the server and book where you got this error?
With the servers I've added, I did not get any errors when using the "show in store" function.

[dunhill]

QUOTE=Ketzah;4603005]Not being able to edit posts is a mess,

I'll need more details to troubleshoot this.
Can you DM me the server and book where you got this error?
With the servers I've added, I did not get any errors when using the "show in store" function.[/QUOTE]

Spoiler:

calibre, version 9.13.0
ERROR: Excepción no considerada: <b>TypeError</b>:OpenCalibreStore.open() missing 1 required positional argument: 'detail_item'

calibre 9.13 embedded-python: True
Linux-6.14.0-37-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.39 Linux ('64bit', 'ELF')
('Linux', '6.14.0-37-generic', '#37~24.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Nov 20 10:25:38 UTC 2')
Python 3.14.6
Linux: Linux Mint 22.3
Interface language: es
EXE path: /opt/calibre/bin/calibre
Successfully initialized third party plugins: DeACSM (0, 0, 16) && Gather KFX-ZIP (from KFX Input) (2, 33, 0) && Package KFX (from KFX Input) (2, 33, 0) && AI Custom Tag Extractor (1, 0, 0) && AI Metadata (0, 1, 1) && Action Chains (1, 20, 10) && Actualizador Biblioteca LDS (1, 8, 0) && Amazon.com Multiple Countries (1, 0, 0) && Amazon_Precios (1, 0, 0) && Annotations (1, 17, 15) && Audio M3U (1, 0, 0) && AudioBook_Duration (1, 0, 10) && Author Book Count (2, 2, 3) && Barnes & Noble (1, 5, 8) && Best Sellers (4, 6, 0) && Biblioteca EPL (5, 0, 0) && BookFusion Plugin (0, 8, 1) && Busca en internet (1, 8, 1) && Calibre Auto-Updater (1, 10, 0) && Calibre Config Reports (5, 0, 1) && CalibreSync Bridge (1, 4, 1) && Chapter Summarizer (1, 4, 0) && Check Books (0, 2, 1) && Clean Comments (0, 2, 1) && Comments Cleaner (1, 19, 2) && Count Pages (1, 15, 2) && Create Hardcover (1, 5, 1) && Cuspide_Precios (1, 0, 0) && Danmei Novel Finder (0, 6, 0) && Download AI Metadata Button (1, 0, 0) && Download Metadata Button (1, 0, 0) && DriveThruRPG (0, 0, 5) && EPUB Workflow (1, 0, 0) && EPUB to XTC Converter (1, 0, 1) && Ebook Translator (2, 4, 2) && Editor Chains (1, 1, 9) && Embed Comic Metadata (1, 6, 9) && EpubCheck (0, 2, 6) && EpubMerge (3, 2, 0) && Extract ISBN (1, 6, 6) && Extract People Other Metadata (1, 0, 0) && FanFicFare (4, 60, 0) && Favourites Menu (1, 3, 2) && Find Duplicates (1, 10, 10) && GR Author Notes (1, 2, 2, 200) && GR Author Notes 2 (1, 2, 2, 200) && Generate Cover (2, 4, 1) && Goodreads (1, 8, 5) && Goodreads Awards (1, 1, 0) && Goodreads Local Sync (1, 1, 0) && Goodreads Scraping Mod (1, 0, 0) && Goodreads Series Explorer (1, 0, 1) && Goodreads Sync (1, 17, 4) && Hardcover (0, 5, 0) && Hardcover Metadata (1, 1, 0) && Hyphenate This! (0, 1, 4) && Identidad Autor (1, 0, 5) && Import List (1, 9, 9) && Job Spy (1, 0, 239) && KFX metadata reader (from KFX Input) (2, 33, 0) && From KFX (2, 33, 0) && KFX Input (2, 33, 0) && Set KFX metadata (from KFX Output) (2, 19, 0) && KFX Output (2, 19, 0) && Kindle Collections (1, 7, 29) && Kindle Comics Input (0, 0, 2) && Kindle Comics Output (0, 0, 2) && Kindle hi-res covers (0, 5, 1) && KindleUnpack - The Plugin (0, 84, 0) && Kobo Utilities (2, 28, 2) && LanguageTool (0, 1, 3) && Last Modified (0, 8, 5) && Libgen Fiction (0, 4, 0) && Library Genesis (1, 4, 2) && Library of Congress (0, 1, 0) && Manage Series (1, 5, 4) && Mass Search-Replace (1, 9, 1) && Media File Importer (1, 0, 27) && Modify ePub (1, 8, 9) && Moon+ Reader Annotations Importer (1, 0, 1) && MultiColumnSearch (1, 0, 96) && Mylar Series Plus (1, 0, 1) && N-Pages Previews (1, 0, 0) && New Douban Books (2, 1, 0) && Obok DeDRM (10, 0, 9) && Open Calibre Store (1, 2, 0) && Open With (1, 8, 5) && OpenLibraryPlus (2, 2, 1) && Palette Switcher (1, 1, 1000) && Piper Audiobook Converter (1, 4, 2) && Quality Check (1, 14, 7) && Quick Preferences (1, 7, 2) && RSS Reader (12, 0, 1) && Reading Goal (2, 1, 2) && Reading List (1, 15, 7) && Reading Status Counter (2, 0, 0) && Resize Cover (1, 2, 2) && Search The Internet (1, 11, 4) && Series Finder (Casa del Libro) (2, 0, 0) && SmartEject (2, 6, 0) && StoryGraph (2, 0, 8) && Sum Column (0, 3, 3) && Swapped Metadata Fixer (4, 36, 0) && Telegram Sender (2, 1, 3) && Tematika_Pricecheck (1, 0, 0) && TextDiff (1, 3, 1) && User Category (1, 6, 2) && VL from selection (1, 0, 3) && Wiki Reader (2, 2, 1) && Wikidata (2, 0, 0) && Wikidata gui (2, 0, 0) && Yenny-Ateneo (1, 1, 0) && YennyElAteneo Metadata Plugin (1, 0, 5) && ePub Extended Metadata {Reader} (0, 14, 9) && ePub Extended Metadata {Writer} (0, 14, 9) && ePub Extended Metadata (0, 14, 9)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre/gui2/actions/store.py", line 129, in open_store
TypeError: OpenCalibreStore.open() missing 1 required positional argument: 'detail_item'

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Ketzah

Not being able to edit posts is a mess,

You need to increase your post count to double digits.

Simplest way to do that is to post some replies in the Lounge

BR

[dunhill]

Originally Posted by Ketzah

Are you using version 1.2.0?

if the last one published

[Ketzah]

I believe I've got it resolved. I will need someone to test it, since I never received the error myself.

Updated version to 1.2.1

Set an expected variable to none when not received from the local/remote server.
Updating author from my normal gamer tag, jadex, to Ketzah to be more uniform.

I've uploaded the plugin to my GitHub as well
https://github.com/ketzah/Open-Calibre-Store