Failing to download covers?

[eschwartz]

I cannot download any book covers all of a sudden:

#################### Log for Mean Streets ####################

****************************** Amazon.com Covers ****************************** 
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1')] 
Failed to download valid cover 
Took 9.6782271862 seconds 
No cached cover found, running identify
Found image: 
data:image/jpeg;base64,<encoded-image-way-too-long-to-paste-here>



No cover found 

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****************************** Open Library Covers ****************************** 
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.249.78 Safari/532.5')] 
Failed to download valid cover 
Took 2.00271606445e-05 seconds 

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****************************** Overdrive Covers ****************************** 
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1')] 
Failed to download valid cover 
Took 30.293432951 seconds 
No cached cover found, running identify
Initial query is Jim Butcher
Cross reference query is Streets
No cover found 

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#################### Log for Halo: The Cole Protocol ####################

****************************** Amazon.com Covers ****************************** 
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1')] 
Failed to download valid cover 
Took 27.0491888523 seconds 
No cached cover found, running identify
Found image: 
data:image/jpeg;base64,<encoded-image-way-too-long-to-paste-here>




 



No cover found 

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****************************** Open Library Covers ****************************** 
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.249.78 Safari/532.5')] 
Failed to download valid cover 
Took 2.31266021729e-05 seconds 

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****************************** Overdrive Covers ****************************** 
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1')] 
Failed to download valid cover 
Took 2.97525882721 seconds 
No cached cover found, running identify
Initial query is Tobias Buckell
Cross reference query is Halo
No cover found 

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#################### Log for Halo: Evolutions: Essential Tales of the Halo Universe ####################

****************************** Amazon.com Covers ****************************** 
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1')] 
Failed to download valid cover 
Took 12.0288279057 seconds 
No cached cover found, running identify
Found image: 
data:image/jpeg;base64,<encoded-image-way-too-long-to-paste-here>




 



No cover found 

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****************************** Open Library Covers ****************************** 
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.249.78 Safari/532.5')] 
Failed to download valid cover 
Took 0.500153064728 seconds 
No cover for ISBN: u'9780765323996' found 

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****************************** Overdrive Covers ****************************** 
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1')] 
Failed to download valid cover 
Took 6.53006100655 seconds 
No cached cover found, running identify
Initial query is Tobias Buckell
Cross reference query is Halo
No cover found 

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And

#################### Log for The Name of the Wind ####################

****************************** Google Covers ****************************** 
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1')] 
Failed to download valid cover 
Took 26.0980379581 seconds 
No cached cover found, running identify
Failed to get additional details for The Name of the Wind: Day One
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/eschwartz/git/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/google.py", line 87, in to_metadata
    raw = get_details(browser, id_url, timeout)
  File "/home/eschwartz/git/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/google.py", line 30, in get_details
    raw = browser.open_novisit(url, timeout=timeout).read()
  File "site-packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 199, in open_novisit
  File "site-packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 230, in _mech_open
  File "site-packages/mechanize/_opener.py", line 193, in open
  File "site-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 344, in _open
  File "site-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 332, in _call_chain
  File "site-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 1142, in http_open
  File "site-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 1118, in do_open
URLError: <urlopen error [Errno -2] Name or service not known>

Failed to get metadata for identify entry: <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:gbs="http://schemas.google.com/books/2008" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms" xmlns:batch="http://schemas.google.com/gdata/batch" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>http://www.google.com/books/feeds/volumes/zanWngEACAAJ</id><updated>2014-08-06T05:19:21.000Z</updated><category scheme="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind" term="http://schemas.google.com/books/2008#volume"/><title type="text">The Name of the Wind</title><link rel="http://schemas.google.com/books/2008/thumbnail" type="image/x-unknown" href="http://bks5.books.google.com/books?id=zanWngEACAAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;img=1&amp;zoom=5&amp;source=gbs_gdata"/><link rel="http://schemas.google.com/books/2008/info" type="text/html" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=zanWngEACAAJ&amp;dq=intitle:Name+intitle:of+intitle:Wind%2Binauthor:Patrick+inauthor:Rothfuss&amp;as_brr=0&amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;source=gbs_gdata"/><link rel="http://schemas.google.com/books/2008/preview" type="text/html" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=zanWngEACAAJ&amp;dq=intitle:Name+intitle:of+intitle:Wind%2Binauthor:Patrick+inauthor:Rothfuss&amp;as_brr=0&amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;cd=1&amp;source=gbs_gdata"/><link rel="http://schemas.google.com/books/2008/annotation" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.google.com/books/feeds/users/me/volumes"/><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=zanWngEACAAJ&amp;dq=intitle:Name+intitle:of+intitle:Wind%2Binauthor:Patrick+inauthor:Rothfuss&amp;as_brr=0&amp;ie=ISO-8859-1"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.google.com/books/feeds/volumes/zanWngEACAAJ"/><gbs:contentVersion>preview-1.0.0</gbs:contentVersion><gbs:embeddability value="http://schemas.google.com/books/2008#not_embeddable"/><gbs:openAccess value="http://schemas.google.com/books/2008#disabled"/><gbs:viewability value="http://schemas.google.com/books/2008#view_no_pages"/><dc:creator>Patrick Rothfuss</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-10-08</dc:date><dc:description>A hero named Kvothe, now living under an assumed name as the humble proprietor of an inn, recounts his transformation from a magically gifted young man into the most notorious wizard, musician, thief, and assassin in his world. Reprint.</dc:description><dc:format>722 pages</dc:format><dc:format>book</dc:format><dc:identifier>zanWngEACAAJ</dc:identifier><dc:identifier>ISBN:1439560803</dc:identifier><dc:identifier>ISBN:9781439560808</dc:identifier><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:subject>Fiction</dc:subject><dc:title>The Name of the Wind</dc:title><dc:title>Day One</dc:title></entry>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/eschwartz/git/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/google.py", line 277, in get_all_details
    if ans.has_google_cover:
  File "/home/eschwartz/git/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/book/base.py", line 149, in __getattribute__
    'Metadata object has no attribute named: '+ repr(field))
AttributeError: Metadata object has no attribute named: 'has_google_cover'

No cover found 

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****************************** Amazon.com Covers ****************************** 
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1')] 
Failed to download valid cover 
Took 31.4669120312 seconds 
No cached cover found, running identify
Failed to make identify query: u'http://www.amazon.com/s/?sort=relevanceexprank&search-alias=aps&field-keywords=B0010SKUYM&unfiltered=1'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/eschwartz/git/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/amazon.py", line 909, in identify
    raw = br.open_novisit(query, timeout=timeout).read().strip()
  File "site-packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 199, in open_novisit
  File "site-packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 230, in _mech_open
  File "site-packages/mechanize/_opener.py", line 204, in open
  File "site-packages/mechanize/_gzip.py", line 102, in http_response
  File "site-packages/mechanize/_gzip.py", line 76, in __init__
  File "socket.py", line 351, in read
  File "httplib.py", line 543, in read
  File "httplib.py", line 585, in _read_chunked
  File "socket.py", line 476, in readline
timeout: timed out

No cover found 

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****************************** Open Library Covers ****************************** 
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1')] 
Failed to download valid cover 
Took 7.10487365723e-05 seconds 

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****************************** Overdrive Covers ****************************** 
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1')] 
Failed to download valid cover 
Took 2.23298788071 seconds 
No cached cover found, running identify
Initial query is Patrick Rothfuss
Cross reference query is Name
No cover found 

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It works just fine when I download metadata or metadata+covers.

[kovidgoyal]

Works for me: Edit metadata->Download cover

[eschwartz]

I will assume gremlins -- it magically started working again.