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[theducks]

Originally Posted by Tanjamuse

Does that mean that I can get danish metadata?

What you want is a Metadata (for that SITE) PI. The ISBN is just a (possible) search term

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Tanjamuse

I would love a plugin for danish isbn numbers maybe someone can create something based on Saxo.com (https://www.saxo.com/dk/)

I know there were one once based on Adlibris.dk but I can't find it anymore.

@Tanjamuse - the Adlibris,dk PI was deprecated see ADLIBRIS_DK

If you contact the author, Pr. BarnArt, he may be willing to resurrect it

BR

[Sparkling]

I would appreciate a feature that when I select a few books and right-click will offer me to create a plain text book list that I can share by pasting. So the cut-out would look like this (or I could customize it by using the calibre template language):
Per Lagerkvist - Barabbas
Tamora Pierce - Song of the Lioness 2 - In the hand of the Goddess

That would make it super easy for me to share book lists with people by chat, email etc. (if I want to give someone a wish list, or list of books they might want to read etc.)

[woodr2011]

Hi everyone - Would it be possible to develop a plugin to download metadata for audio and video files added to Calibre? It would be a great help to those of us who use Calibre to catalog all of our files. Thanks so much

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Sparkling

I would appreciate a feature that when I select a few books and right-click will offer me to create a plain text book list that I can share by pasting. So the cut-out would look like this (or I could customize it by using the calibre template language):
Per Lagerkvist - Barabbas
Tamora Pierce - Song of the Lioness 2 - In the hand of the Goddess

That would make it super easy for me to share book lists with people by chat, email etc. (if I want to give someone a wish list, or list of books they might want to read etc.)

@Sparkling - try this

1. Mark the books (Ctrl+M)
2. Show Marked Books (Ctrl+Shift+M)
3. Create Catalogue (it's in the Convert Books dropdown menu), choose CSV as the Catalogue format, then choose columns in the CSV/XML Options tab (you can move the columns within the list via drag 'n drop).
4. A CSV file is a text file, they can be read with most text editors. I prefer to read them with a small Windows program called CSVFileView.

BR

[kovidgoyal]

@BR: You dont need to mark books. Simply select them -- as long as you have selected more than a couple create catalog will automatically restrict itself to selected books.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

@BR: You dont need to mark books. Simply select them -- as long as you have selected more than a couple create catalog will automatically restrict itself to selected books.

Yes of course. . . I knew it, but had forgotten/discounted it

IIRC the books need to be adjacent to do multiple select with keyboard.

Hence I invariably use the Mark Book feature, it's more explicit, especially if one is anti-mouse. And the Show Marked Books enables confirmation you have the books you actually want.

BR

[woodr2011]

I would be willing to pay someone to write a custom plugin (or plugins) to download metadata for my video and audio files that I add to my Calibre library. Please contact me here or by my email. I would like to make the plugin available to all Calibre users if possible.

[Maverynthia]

Is there a plugin or can there be a plugin that will download a file (user specified) from an RSS feed and add it to Calibre, downloading the metadata in the process (if available)

What I am trying to do is to automate getting EPubs from:
http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/feed/

Where the RSS provides a download link to the Epub/mobi/etc. and then dumps it into Calibre (So far the two issues I've manually imported have gotten their metadata c: )

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Maverynthia

Is there a plugin or can there be a plugin that will download a file (user specified) from an RSS feed and add it to Calibre, downloading the metadata in the process (if available)

What I am trying to do is to automate getting EPubs from:
http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/feed/

Where the RSS provides a download link to the Epub/mobi/etc. and then dumps it into Calibre (So far the two issues I've manually imported have gotten their metadata c: )

@Maverynthia - maybe it could be done via a Store plug in - suggest you try asking in the GetBooks announcements thread.

BR

[Maverynthia]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

@Maverynthia - maybe it could be done via a Store plug in - suggest you try asking in the GetBooks announcements thread.

BR

I'm not sure how the Get Books plug-in would help since that's about book stores and I'm talking about auto grabbing from an RSS feed. If anything, I'd think it'd relate to some kind of news plugin.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Maverynthia

I'm not sure how the Get Books plug-in would help since that's about book stores and I'm talking about auto grabbing from an RSS feed. If anything, I'd think it'd relate to some kind of news plugin.

@Maverynthia - my limited understanding of News is that it screen scrapes the HTML from the web pages (sourced perhaps via RSS notify messages) and converts that to EPUB.

I understood your post as saying you want something that finds links to downloadable files. In part at least that's what I understand the Store plugins do. Although I think they are all driven by a Search, whereas you want one that's driven by an RSS feed. Some of the Store PIs use public domain sources - i.e. free.

If the text as displayed on the site pages : example - is complete i.e. its not just an extract from a larger work, then screen scraping via News may well be a better alternative.

BR

[mailings]

Posibility to use offline dictionaries in viewer.

If that could be stardict formated dictionaries would be great.

[laji]

If somebody wrote it, pardon.

I wish to use regex anywhere for anything (rename by matrix, and so on) and placeholders. A very good example: german program "Mp3tag" for mass redacting/organizing music files' tags.

For example: I want to rename those books, that have series name and numbers, and is important to read them in this order in way: title will "series No. title". Now I can do this in Calibre with about 4-5 steps, 20-30 clicks, 1 minute; of course, with big chance of error. The same task in Mp3tag I can do (using saved, simple enough actions) with 2 click, ~3 seconds.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by laji

If somebody wrote it, pardon.

I wish to use regex anywhere for anything (rename by matrix, and so on). A very good example: german program "Mp3tag" for mass redacting/organizing music files' tags.

For example: I want to rename those books, that have series name and numbers, and is important to read them in this order. Now I can do this in Calibre with about 4-5 steps, 20-30 clicks, 1 minute. The same task in Mp3tag I can do (with saved actions) with 2 click, ~3 seconds.

Try this in the standard search

title:"~[\d]$"

It is mostly REGEX

I extrapolated the "~ " to mean REGEX stuff here
The Online Search document appears a bit stale (in areas: the advanced graphic)