[GUI Plugin] Overdrive Link

[jhowell]

Originally Posted by activedirectory

This is an amazing plugin and this one feature would just put it over the top Right now I am manually adding a column to keep track of which books I have a hold so I don't have to check overdrive over and over again.

That is what I do now, except that I use a tag instead of a custom column.

Since it should be fairly easy to implement, I will go ahead with the change I proposed three years ago:

Originally Posted by jhowell

I am considering adding hold/checkout status as part of the ol_wait_weeks information in a future release. Perhaps something like "05H@OCLS" for a 5 week wait, already on hold, at OCLS library.

With that information you will be able to find books on hold using the search: #ol_wait_weeks:"H@"

It may be a week or so unitl I have time to work on this.

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by jhowell

That is what I do now, except that I use a tag instead of a custom column.

Since it should be fairly easy to implement, I will go ahead with the change I proposed three years ago:



With that information you will be able to find books on hold using the search: #ol_wait_weeks:"H@"

It may be a week or so unitl I have time to work on this.

Thank you! This is something that will be very useful for me.

[activedirectory]

awesome looking forward to it!

Originally Posted by jhowell

That is what I do now, except that I use a tag instead of a custom column.

Since it should be fairly easy to implement, I will go ahead with the change I proposed three years ago:



With that information you will be able to find books on hold using the search: #ol_wait_weeks:"H@"

It may be a week or so unitl I have time to work on this.

[Rellwood]

Hi,

Not sure if this is a bug or not, but when I tried searching for the book "Kiss the Dead" by Laurel K. Hamilton (I am looking for the audible format to listen to), but when I looked at the progress using Job Spy, the title listed was "kiss" and not "Kiss the Dead". Obviously, Overdrive didn't find the book.

Is there a way to make sure that the actual title and not an abrieviatted version is being used?

[jhowell]

Originally Posted by Rellwood

Not sure if this is a bug or not, but when I tried searching for the book "Kiss the Dead" by Laurel K. Hamilton (I am looking for the audible format to listen to), but when I looked at the progress using Job Spy, the title listed was "kiss" and not "Kiss the Dead". Obviously, Overdrive didn't find the book.

Is there a way to make sure that the actual title and not an abrieviatted version is being used?

That is intentional. The plugin will search for a fairly unique word in the title to increase the chance of finding a match. Any book by that author with that word in the title will be returned by OverDrive and the results will be filtered by the plugin from there.

In this case a search for titles containing "Kiss" in books by "Laurel K. Hamilton" will find nothing because the author name is misspelled.

[Rellwood]

Originally Posted by jhowell

That is intentional. The plugin will search for a fairly unique word in the title to increase the chance of finding a match. Any book by that author with that word in the title will be returned by OverDrive and the results will be filtered by the plugin from there.

In this case a search for titles containing "Kiss" in books by "Laurel K. Hamilton" will find nothing because the author name is misspelled.

My bad, I put the wrong name here in the forum, but it did have the correct name in the library.

I did however discover that the plugin had the old overdrive urls to the individual libraries, and I thought that it would automatically go to the right places. I had to reconfigure the plugin and fixed the links. So now it found the books.

Thanks for letting me know that it only used unique words though

[jhowell]

Originally Posted by Rellwood

My bad, I put the wrong name here in the forum, but it did have the correct name in the library.

I did however discover that the plugin had the old overdrive urls to the individual libraries, and I thought that it would automatically go to the right places. I had to reconfigure the plugin and fixed the links. So now it found the books.

Thanks for letting me know that it only used unique words though

I’m glad that you got it sorted out. I made an attempt to have the plugin fix outdated URLs, but it doesn’t always work.

[jhowell]

Version 2.37.0 - 12 Dec 2019

The duration of wait time in the ol_wait_weeks custom column will be suffixed by "H" if it is detected that the book is already on hold at the specified library. For example, "05H@OCLS" indicates that the book is on hold at OCLS with a five week wait time. Hold status is only available for OverDrive, cloudLibrary, and Open Library.

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by jhowell

Version 2.37.0 - 12 Dec 2019

The duration of wait time in the ol_wait_weeks custom column will be suffixed by "H" if it is detected that the book is already on hold at the specified library. For example, "05H@OCLS" indicates that the book is on hold at OCLS with a five week wait time. Hold status is only available for OverDrive, cloudLibrary, and Open Library.

Thank you!

[activedirectory]

Woohoo - this is awesome! I now use a color-coded column to denote books that are on the hold list versus everything else that's queued up for holds.

This is not a question about the plugin itself - but do you have any advice for me if I wanted to create a quick way to see how many holds I have at each library (This way I can optimize my holds across libraries within Calibre rather than go back and forth with the Overdrive sites).

My quick idea is that I want to create a separate custom column and do a regular expression on the waiting time column to extract the library that has a hold on a book, and then use the free categories tab on the left to count up how many holds I have in each library. I haven't done this before so not sure if this is the best idea...

Originally Posted by jhowell

Version 2.37.0 - 12 Dec 2019

The duration of wait time in the ol_wait_weeks custom column will be suffixed by "H" if it is detected that the book is already on hold at the specified library. For example, "05H@OCLS" indicates that the book is on hold at OCLS with a five week wait time. Hold status is only available for OverDrive, cloudLibrary, and Open Library.

[jhowell]

Originally Posted by activedirectory

do you have any advice for me if I wanted to create a quick way to see how many holds I have at each library (This way I can optimize my holds across libraries within Calibre rather than go back and forth with the Overdrive sites).

I believe that it is possible, but my experience with custom columns is limited.

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by activedirectory

My quick idea is that I want to create a separate custom column and do a regular expression on the waiting time column to extract the library that has a hold on a book, and then use the free categories tab on the left to count up how many holds I have in each library. I haven't done this before so not sure if this is the best idea...

Thank you for the idea. I'm going to do that... but I don't think my way will be ok for you, as I will create a python function, the easiest way for me.

[activedirectory]

oh I know Python, but where do you inject the code? I'm a basic newbie with Calibre.

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by activedirectory

oh I know Python, but where do you inject the code? I'm a basic newbie with Calibre.

I'm going to try it tomorrow, I'll post it then.

[stumped]

my library has frustratingly dropped overdrive and switched to RB digital
so I tried to ressurect and re configure my plug in( which i have not used for ages)
after making sure it was updated I tried to wing my way into tweaking it but I hit this error ( see below). tried to remove the plug in and start over but seems i cant do that either the error comes when I click on the plug in , in the plug in list, to tweak it, I get an empty window for select metadata fields? then this
calibre, version 4.3.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>WindowsError</b>:[Error 123] The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.: u'C:\\Users\\david\\AppData\\Roaming\\calibre\\met adata_sources\\Overdrive Link*.json'

calibre 4.3 embedded-python: True is64bit: False
Windows-10-10.0.18362-SP0 Windows ('32bit', 'WindowsPE')
32bit process running on 64bit windows
('Windows', '10', '10.0.18362')
Python 2.7.16+
Windows: ('10', '10.0.18362', 'SP0', u'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: en_GB
Successfully initialized third party plugins: DeDRM (6, 6, 0) && K4PC, K4Mac, Kindle Mobi and Topaz DeDRM (0, 4, 2) && Inept PDF DeDRM (0, 1, 9) && Inept Epub DeDRM (0, 2, 0) && EpubSplit (2, 8, 0) && Quality Check (1, 9, 11) && View Manager (1, 4, 3) && Open EPUB In Editor (1, 0, 0) && Copy Cover To Device (2, 0, 0) && Resize Cover (1, 0, 2) && KoboTouchExtended (3, 1, 5) && Modify ePub (1, 4, 0) && Count Pages (1, 9, 0) && Overdrive Link (2, 37, 0) && Open With (1, 5, 10) && KePub Output (3, 1, 3)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\preferences\plugins.py", line 292, in double_clicked
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\preferences\plugins.py", line 373, in modify_plugin
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\__init__.py", line 177, in do_user_config
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\base.py", line 270, in save_settings
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\metadata\config.py", line 124, in commit
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\metadata\config.py", line 52, in commit
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\config.py", line 448, in __setitem__
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\config.py", line 410, in commit
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\lock.py", line 111, in __enter__
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\lock.py", line 91, in lock_file
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\lock.py", line 81, in retry_for_a_time
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\lock.py", line 66, in windows_open
WindowsError: [Error 123] The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.: u'C:\\Users\\xxxxxx\\AppData\\Roaming\\calibre\\me tadata_sources\\Overdrive Link*.json'

Nb there is no blank character in metadata_sources ( though I see one when I save the post)