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[rumplestiltskin]

As the Job log contains the eMail address to which I had Calibre send the eBook, I guess it's just a matter of the as-yet-non-existent plugin grabbing that eMail address and today's date from the log. Then, if I eMail the same book to someone else, the plugin would concatenate that new eMail address and today's date to the existing data in the column.

As the saying goes: "Then a miracle happens." If I could code it myself, I'd do it.

Originally Posted by rumplestiltskin

As I didn't see anything like this listed in the 1st post of this thread, I'll suggest it here:

Calibre can eMail a selected book using SMTP credentials I provide in the preferences. It works great. But I'd like to have a column that automatically enters the date the book was emailed; optionally (as long as I'm asking) include the eMail address of the recipient. Right now I'm just eMailing books to myself (so I may receive them on an iPad) but I expect to add a friend's eMail address, as well, so I may send him some books as necessary. Having a column with the date the eBook was eMailed along with the recipients' email(s) would be helpful. I suppose one might call this a "gifting library" function. Perhaps I should be looking for something more akin to "library software"?

Hope this is helpful. Thanks!

[Quuzuu]

I use the calibre ebook-viewer to read all my books. I have a simple plugin idea which will work in the viewer, but I don't know if it's possible.

I want to ask here first - if it's possible, I'll invest a week to learn everything, and build it for myself.

Here's what it does, very simple: I often get too addicted in reading and it affects my work and life. I want to limit how much I can read in this way: when I'm in the viewer, it'll force me to take a break every 20 pages (or every 15 minutes, or every chapter) - scrolling is disabled during the break, so I can't go to next page, until the break is over.

[jackie_w]

There used to be support for adding plugins to the calibre Viewer but it was removed quite a long time ago. I forget exactly when that was, maybe when the Viewer had a big rewrite for calibre v4.x ???

[kovidgoyal]

No, there is no support for viewer plugins. It's on my long term TODO list, but given the complications (viewer code is written to two different languages and runs in sandboxed isolated processes) coming up with a framework for viewer plugins is not easy.

[KoboFormaMX]

Please SOMEBODY add a random filter view option or a "Show me at random order" button. The plugin must select a TRUE random filter to show all the books in the collection displayed in random position. This must take the same time or less vs the other view filters.

[kjdavies]

I too would be interested in a plugin to do this. I've written a Perl script that scrapes the desktop downloader logs to match downloaded files to OneBookShelf (OBS) product IDs, then scrapes the OBS product page for metadata, but it would be nice to have a plugin that does this for me.

[Killjoy12]

Is there a API method to get file attributes from a file on the device? I'm mostly interested in getting the modified date for files. Thanks.

[MarjaE]

Even just being able to retrieve a list of titles and publishers would be helpful.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by kjdavies

I too would be interested in a plugin to do this. I've written a Perl script that scrapes the desktop downloader logs to match downloaded files to OneBookShelf (OBS) product IDs, then scrapes the OBS product page for metadata, but it would be nice to have a plugin that does this for me.

Originally Posted by MarjaE

Even just being able to retrieve a list of titles and publishers would be helpful.

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[MarjaE]

Okay, I don't know much about programming.

The OneBookShelf/DriveThruRPG app stores its download data in plain text in a .dat file. I thought it might be a json with a changed file name, but apparently not.

For each entry, it tracks:

coverURL
datePurchased
downloadedDate
files
errorMessage
hashesMap
lastModified
localDir
localFileHash
localFileName
localLastModified
serverFileName
totalSize
productId
publisher
ruleSystem
thumbURL
title

Note that the metadata does not include author, probably because of nicknames, initials, and a lot of collaborations. I'm at a loss as to how to either convert the .dat to a .csv to import the relevant info, ior query the .dat.

[PlasticFlaneur]

I apologize in advance if this is a stupid idea. Also, I use a Mac so I have no idea how this could be implemented on multiple OSes. Anyway, save as pdf is a function available via the print menu on most Macs. Could a "save as ebook" (save as epub?, Print to epub?) be implemented as a system-wide service/function?

[Evrydayphotospam]

Hello! I was wondering if there would be any interest in creating a plugin that extracts URLs from your book files? I would imagine it would work very similar if not exactly the same as the "Extract ISBN" plugin.

The background to this "request/idéa" is that I have over 900 individual books that each have a URL at the beginning of the (epub) book that I currently have to enter manually. And I can't help but wonder if a plugin similar to "Extract ISBN" would help both me and others in a similar situation.

[grumbleskin]

I don't know much how to write code.

Is there anyone that would write a scrape plugin for RPGnet to get publisher/book title/cover/year info that could be scraped and used to rename pdf files?

The website has a nice consistent way of naming stuff that would be kind of cool to have.

Is there anyone that would be up to do it for n00b who doesn't know how?

[grumbleskin]

Or maybe RPGGeek?

[azuravian]

Originally Posted by PlasticFlaneur

I apologize in advance if this is a stupid idea. Also, I use a Mac so I have no idea how this could be implemented on multiple OSes. Anyway, save as pdf is a function available via the print menu on most Macs. Could a "save as ebook" (save as epub?, Print to epub?) be implemented as a system-wide service/function?

I don't know of a system-wide service that would do this. If the file that you want to print to ePub is found online, however, you should be able to use a browser plugin to convert to ePub. This one is available for both Firefox and Chrome: https://epub.press/