[Metadata Source Plugin] Barnes & Noble

[BeckyEbook]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

For most identifiers, this gives me the ID. For B&N, it gives me a url:.

You're right.
The barnesnoble identifier could simply be a numeric string identifying the book in that bookstore.

Numeric ID, e.g. 1100171677
could easily expand in short active URL
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/1100171677
which will be redirected to the target link:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/out...don/1100171677

But it's probably about backwards compatibility of the plugin with a longer identifier record.
It will be best if the author of the plugin speaks up.

[kiwidude]

Release Notes
https://github.com/kiwidude68/calibr...s_noble-v1.5.0

@BeckyEbook - it was all just to do with where I was being redirected to and the safest URL that I could use to parse at the time. I was not aware (until you pointed it out thank you) that nowadays at least they have a redirection in place to allow using /w/<numeric id>

Any new books with this release will get the shorter format numeric identifier. Both old and new formats should still display correctly in browser/update metadata correctly.

[C8H10N4O2]

I noticed in the last couple of days that every so often, when grabbing metadata from B&N, it is truncating the last several characters from the series. This is the log from one of these scenarios:

Running identify query with parameters: 
{'title': 'The Wedding Song', 'authors': ['Regina Duke'], 'identifiers': {'amazon': 'B07XXJN87N', 'asin': 'B07XXJN87N', 'barnesnoble': '1139078209', 'fictiondb': 'the-wedding-song~regina-duke~2878281', 'goodreads': '51611690'}, 'timeout': 30} 
Using plugins: Barnes & Noble (1, 5, 0) 
The log from individual plugins is below 

****************************** Barnes & Noble (1, 5, 0) ****************************** 
Found 1 results 
Downloading from Barnes & Noble took 3.4481515884399414 


--- 
Title               : The Wedding Song
Author(s)           : Regina Duke
Publisher           : Linda White
Series              : Colorado Billiona #10
Published           : 2019-09-14T00:00:00+00:00
Identifiers         : barnesnoble:1139078209
Comments            : 
USA Today Bestselling Author Regina Duke presents a marriage of convenience, with a twist. A 5-hour read, based on an average reading speed of 200 words per minute.  
Zinnia Clausen hides her gift from everyone except her best friend. She jumps at the chance to follow her dream, but falling in love was never part of the plan. Will family secrets destroy her future and her hopes for a happy ending?  
Bart Hazen's art career has finally taken off, but when he finally has a chance at a showing in New York, he discovers there are conditions. He must change his appearance and find a bride. His brother in Eagle's Toe can provide a new wardrobe, but will meeting Zinnia solve his larger problem?
 
Found barnes noble ID: '1139078209'
Adding match: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/1139078209
B&N url: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/1139078209 

******************************************************************************** 
The identify phase took 3.47 seconds 
The longest time (3.448152) was taken by: Barnes & Noble 
Merging results from different sources 
We have 1 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds

Let me know if you need any other information.

[kiwidude]

@C8H10N4O2 - thanks for reporting this. It looks like a change someone made a long time ago when the website format changed to support this plugin wasn't right. It strips any characters in this sequence 'series' from the end of the series name, clearly not right! New release shortly...

[kiwidude]

Release Notes
https://github.com/kiwidude68/calibr...s_noble-v1.5.1

[JSWolf]

Is there any way to download hi-resolution covers from B&N?

[kiwidude]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Is there any way to download hi-resolution covers from B&N?

Do they have them? How do you get to them from an ebook page?

There are enough other cover metadata plugins I find to end up usually with 1400x2200 covers for most of my books, but then they are mostly popular fiction.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Is there any way to download hi-resolution covers from B&N?

There was an attempt a few years back to create a plugin similar to the Kindle HR covers plugin. It succeeded in being able to download covers from B&N but it turned out that B&N seemed to consider 600x800 as being high resolution.

[ownedbycats]

Small glitch:

A comma often gets appended to the end of series names.

I tested this book with each metadata plugin individually and it happens only when B&N is enabled.

I think this happened a few times before but seems more common after 1.5.1 release.

[kiwidude]

Release Notes:
https://github.com/kiwidude68/calibr...s_noble-v1.5.2

@ownedbycats - this should fix that issue, a problem that has been there for a long time.

[kiwidude]

Release Notes
https://github.com/kiwidude68/calibr...s_noble-v1.5.3

[ownedbycats]

The plugin isn't auto-detecting URLs pasted into the identifier field anymore. Here's the book I tested with. this link also fails to detect.

When searching title + author, it shows up as a separate result from the Goodreads/Fantastic Fiction/Google/bloody everything else, so I right-clicked the "See at:" link, copied it, and tried pasting it into the ids field only to get a url: id.

[kiwidude]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

The plugin isn't auto-detecting URLs pasted into the identifier field anymore. Here's the book I tested with. this link also fails to detect.

When searching title + author, it shows up as a separate result from the Goodreads/Fantastic Fiction/Google/bloody everything else, so I right-clicked the "See at:" link, copied it, and tried pasting it into the ids field only to get a url: id.

It isnt clear what you are putting in the id field? If I use the metadata plugin selecting the result for that book, the plugin sets it to this value:

barnesnoble:1138319423

Which works fine. This also works fine:

barnesnoble:w/1138319423

[ownedbycats]

If I take one of the two URLs in my post and use the 'paste' button next to the ids field in the MDE, I get a url: identifier rather than the epected barnesnoble:1138319423.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

If I take one of the two URLs in my post and use the 'paste' button next to the ids field in the MDE, I get a url: identifier rather than the epected barnesnoble:1138319423.

From the help tip on that button, what you are seeing is the expected behaviour. You are pasting a URL and you get a url: prefix. You could configure the button to add barnesnoble and just paste the numeric portion.