Calibre + cloud eBook storage plugin

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Hello,

I would like to write a plugin for connecting Calibre to FBReader Book Network catalog (https://books.fbreader.org/). I wrote a trivial plugin that opens the catalog as a web page in a separate window, asks for google authentication and then allows to download books directly to Calibre library. (http://sources.fbreader.org/fbreader...alibre-plugin/)

I need some help to implement more interesting features:

1. That would be nice to store cookies between sessions; then it will be not necessary to enter google credentials every time user wants to connect.
2. It would be also useful to use these cookies during OPDS search over the catalog; this search is only accessible for authorised users.
3. Finally, the most interesting feature is an upload of books from the Calibre library to the Book Network.

So, my questions are: is it possible to implement these features in a plugin? If yes, is there a good point to start: some documentation, or code sample, or just classes in the Calibre source I can read?

Thank you in advance,

-- Nikolay

[kovidgoyal]

I'm not sure what you're asking for.

1. If you want to know how to extract cookies from a QtWebKit browser, see the Browser/NetworkAccessManager classes in jsbrower/browser.py

2. If you want to know how to use these cookies with mechanize, see the get_browser() method in feeds/news.py

3. You should probably be asking this on a FBreader forum, since how you do it will depend on what APIs it exposes.

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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

I'm not sure what you're asking for.

1. If you want to know how to extract cookies from a QtWebKit browser, see the Browser/NetworkAccessManager classes in jsbrower/browser.py

2. If you want to know how to use these cookies with mechanize, see the get_browser() method in feeds/news.py

Thank you! I will take a look.

3. You should probably be asking this on a FBreader forum, since how you do it will depend on what APIs it exposes.

There is no problem with FBReader API because I'm author of FBReader. The question are:

• Calibre has a standard mechanism to download books from third-party sources (Get books->Stores). Is there a standard mechanism to upload books onto an external (cloud) storage?
• Is it possible to run plugin on whole Calibre library (some interface to access the library from a plugin), to upload all the books to the book network?

[kovidgoyal]

You can create a User Interface plugin, those plugins have full access to the entire library and can do anything they like. See for example the Marvin XD plugin that connects calibre to Marvin on an iOS device and allows sending books to the device from the calibre library.

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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

You can create a User Interface plugin, those plugins have full access to the entire library and can do anything they like. See for example the Marvin XD plugin that connects calibre to Marvin on an iOS device and allows sending books to the device from the calibre library.

I see. Thank you very much!