Goodreads_rating DEPRECATED

[Pr.BarnArt]

Originally Posted by mariaclaudia

This is a very usefull plugin for me. However, looks like it's only work if Calibre set in english languaje, because when I use with spanish, nothing happend after I use frating for set decimals, but if I use english, all looks fine.

Hey, I like to help but I doubt if it is related to the language settings in calibre. I get the ratinginfo also with the spanish language.

More likely it is related to the name of the Publisher, if there are spanisch characters in it.
Can you check that and/or give an example of a book found in english mode and not in spanish mode.

[Ad2]

Thank you greatly for this plugin. Love it.

Just a quick question: When using the plugin, is it possible to download just the rating without downloading any other metadata? That is, to download and add only the rating itself to Calibre so as not to change any pre-existing info on other fields such as the Comments, Ids, etc?

As an aside, at first I couldn't get any ratings but then I went into "Configure metadata download" and unchecked all the Metadata sources except for Goodreads and it worked.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by Ad2

Thank you greatly for this plugin. Love it.

Just a quick question: When using the plugin, is it possible to download just the rating without downloading any other metadata? That is, to download and add only the rating itself to Calibre so as not to change any pre-existing info on other fields such as the Comments, Ids, etc?

As an aside, at first I couldn't get any ratings but then I went into "Configure metadata download" and unchecked all the Metadata sources except for Goodreads and it worked.

I think you have the wrong plugin. This one is only for downloading the rating. You are probably wanting the Goodread metadata source plugin. That does have options to choose what metadata items to download. Last I checked, this did work, but I don't normally download the ratings from any site, so maybe something has changed.

[Ad2]

I've always had the Goodreads metadata source plugin. Earlier today I downloaded both the goodreads rating and the frating plugins. I was able to add the rating to a book I tested it on but not without also changing other metadata.

Since closing down and restarting Calibre I am unable to add the rating to any of my books.

[Pr.BarnArt]

Originally Posted by Ad2

Thank you greatly for this plugin. Love it.

Just a quick question: When using the plugin, is it possible to download just the rating without downloading any other metadata? That is, to download and add only the rating itself to Calibre so as not to change any pre-existing info on other fields such as the Comments, Ids, etc?

As an aside, at first I couldn't get any ratings but then I went into "Configure metadata download" and unchecked all the Metadata sources except for Goodreads and it worked.

You can minimize it to check only download Publisher metadata.
That item is needed to get the floating rating through the plugin.
It is correct to select only the goodreads-rating, beacause only that one gives you the rating in float-format.

[Teeny]

Quick question do I need both plugins to download the decimal rating from goodreads or just the first one? I need to clean my TBR folder that has more than 2000 books and doing so for starters from the GR rating would be a great help.

[Pr.BarnArt]

Originally Posted by Teeny

Quick question do I need both plugins to download the decimal rating from goodreads or just the first one? I need to clean my TBR folder that has more than 2000 books and doing so for starters from the GR rating would be a great help.

You need both: goodreads-rating to get the decimal rating and frating is for use afterwards to split the decimal rating from the Publisher-field to a custom field.

[Teeny]

@Pr.BarnArt Nvm.. figured it out =D

[Pr.BarnArt]

Originally Posted by Teeny

@Pr.BarnArt Nvm.. figured it out =D

[petzi]

for this plugin. It worked for me immediately after installing and re-starting. Just a minor thing: Clicking into the the window it says "Set decimal retings" instead "ratings".

I would like to add some thought for further improvements:

• Why not add the decimal rating immediately into the gr1 custom column?
• After the gr1 column was once created, why asking always the same question ("Check and create custom column")? Clicking the frating icon or typing the shortcut should be enough to carry out the action.
• It would be super to have frating just as an add-on to the standard Goodreads plugin. So no change is necessary if the Goodreads plugin changes and there would be no dependencies any more. Take it as requirement that the linking with the GR-plugin is already done. Just add the decimal rating into gr1.

I am not a programmer, so I do not know if these ideas are feasible. Take these ideas just as suggestions for your own thoughts of improvements.

And again, your plugin is an important enhancement!

[Teeny]

@Pr.BarnArt
I was wondering would it be possible if your plugin was enhanced to download not only the average rating of a book but those of people we are following as well, with a limit of 3 people or something so that it isn't abused?

[oren64]

Hi Pr.BarnArt

I have a problem when the rating is x.x0, for example 4.10 the rating show 41.0, Calibre 2.67.

EDIT: I find the problem in goodreadsX-2.1.zip, I changed the code in worker.py file.

Spoiler:

    def parse_rating(self, root):
        rating_node = root.xpath('//div[@id="metacol"]/div[@id="bookMeta"]/span[@class="value rating"]/span')
        if rating_node:
            rating_text = tostring(rating_node[0], method='text', encoding=unicode)
            rating_text = re.sub('[^0-9]', '', rating_text)
            rating_value = float(rating_text)
	    if 5 < rating_value < 100:
                return rating_value / 10
            if rating_value >= 100:
                return rating_value / 100
            return rating_value

Now it works okay.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by oren64

Hi Pr.BarnArt

I have a problem when the rating is x.x0, for example 4.10 the rating show 41.0, Calibre 2.67.

EDIT: I find the problem in goodreadsX-2.1.zip, I changed the code in worker.py file.

Spoiler:

    def parse_rating(self, root):
        rating_node = root.xpath('//div[@id="metacol"]/div[@id="bookMeta"]/span[@class="value rating"]/span')
        if rating_node:
            rating_text = tostring(rating_node[0], method='text', encoding=unicode)
            rating_text = re.sub('[^0-9]', '', rating_text)
            rating_value = float(rating_text)
	    if 5 < rating_value < 100:
                return rating_value / 10
            if rating_value >= 100:
                return rating_value / 100
            return rating_value

Now it works okay.

A much simpler fix is:

    def parse_rating(self, root):
        rating_node = root.xpath('//div[@id="metacol"]/div[@id="bookMeta"]/span[@class="value rating"]/span')
        if rating_node:
            try:
                rating_text = rating_node[0].text
                rating_value = float(rating_text)
                return rating_value
            except:
                return None

[oren64]

Originally Posted by davidfor

A much simpler fix is:

Thanks

[Pr.BarnArt]

Originally Posted by oren64

Hi Pr.BarnArt

I have a problem when the rating is x.x0, for example 4.10 the rating show 41.0, Calibre 2.67.

EDIT: I find the problem in goodreadsX-2.1.zip, I changed the code in worker.py file.


Now it works okay.

The goodreadsX is totally based on the goodreads plugin( 1.1.11).
I only add the rating tot the Publisher field.
And you were right, as Davidfor mentioned there was a problem with a rating with 1 decimal, and I presume also for ratings with 3 decimals.
Dafidfor changed the code a little.
The new goodreadsX code is based on the betaversion of goodreads (v 1.1.12)

You can find the new goodreadsX version 0.2.2 at the start of this topic, where it can be downloaded for a manual install.

Frating itself does not need an update.
Enjoy again.