ISBNdb.com API Key Notification

elbe00 · 01-16-2013, 11:54 PM

After adding 50 or so books and correcting the data I get an email from ISBNdb.com saying that I am running out of API keys. This has only happened since Calibre 0.9.x.ISBNdb says that calibre must be making multiple requests for each book. Is there a way to correct this? I used to be able to process over 200 without any problem. Is anyone else having this problem?

mbovenka · 01-17-2013, 03:45 AM

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Originally Posted by elbe00

After adding 50 or so books and correcting the data I get an email from ISBNdb.com saying that I am running out of API keys. This has only happened since Calibre 0.9.x.ISBNdb says that calibre must be making multiple requests for each book. Is there a way to correct this? I used to be able to process over 200 without any problem. Is anyone else having this problem?

Yes, now that you mention it. I wondered about that a bit. I don't know in what version it began, though. It looks like about 4 ISBNdb requests are done for each metadata download.

Perhaps I should fire up Wireshark and take a look...

kovidgoyal · 01-17-2013, 03:56 AM

IIRC between 1 and 2 queries are made per book. Two if the initial query with isbn fails, then a query with only title and author is made.

And per query if there is more than one page of results, a query has to be made for every page > 1 (upto 10 pages). Presumably isbndb started counting pagination queries as separate queries.

The ISBNdb plugin was last changed in June 2012.

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kovid/c...rces/isbndb.py

01-16-2013, 11:54 PM	#1
elbe00 Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2009 Device: ipaq 211	ISBNdb.com API Key Notification After adding 50 or so books and correcting the data I get an email from ISBNdb.com saying that I am running out of API keys. This has only happened since Calibre 0.9.x.ISBNdb says that calibre must be making multiple requests for each book. Is there a way to correct this? I used to be able to process over 200 without any problem. Is anyone else having this problem?

01-17-2013, 03:56 AM	#3
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,168 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	IIRC between 1 and 2 queries are made per book. Two if the initial query with isbn fails, then a query with only title and author is made. And per query if there is more than one page of results, a query has to be made for every page > 1 (upto 10 pages). Presumably isbndb started counting pagination queries as separate queries. The ISBNdb plugin was last changed in June 2012. http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kovid/c...rces/isbndb.py Last edited by kovidgoyal; 01-17-2013 at 03:59 AM.

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