[GUI Plugin] OverDrive Libby

[spicefather]

I've been playing around with this a little bit and it looks like as Pjama suggested, they changed their security a little bit. I tried generating a new auth token in the app via the clone code and that didn't work for me, but I did the same in my browser and copied its auth token into this plugin's config and that worked perfectly.
No promises on timeline since I have limited time to work on this, but I'm going to see if I can work the newer token generation method into the plugin. Alternatively if anyone is interested in working on it I'm happy to share my findings so far.

If anyone needs to get their plugin working, you can follow the steps below. I don't know how long this lasts for, so you may end up needing to redo it after some hours/days. Also the instructions are based on Firefox, hopefully they apply to other browsers as well but if not just ask and someone will try to help out.

1. In your browser, open your dev console (ctrl-shift-I or F12 for me).
2. Go to the network tab, click the cog at the top-right and make sure "Persist Logs" is on.
3. Go to https://libbyapp.com/.
4. In the dev console, type "sentry" into the filter bar.
5. Click on the furthest-down entry that is a "GET" request.
6. In the right panel, go into the "Request Headers" and find "Authorization" -- its format should be "Bearer" followed by a long string of characters. Copy just the long string.
7. Make sure Calibre is closed, and open the plugin config file (%APPDATA%\calibre\plugins\overdrive_libby.json on Windows, unsure Mac/Linux paths).
8. Find the line for "libby_token", and replace its value with the one you copied in step 6.
9. Open Calibre and the plugin should work as expected now.

Hopefully this is helpful to people.

[Amalthia]

Originally Posted by spicefather

If anyone needs to get their plugin working, you can follow the steps below. I don't know how long this lasts for, so you may end up needing to redo it after some hours/days. Also the instructions are based on Firefox, hopefully they apply to other browsers as well but if not just ask and someone will try to help out.

1. In your browser, open your dev console (ctrl-shift-I or F12 for me).
2. Go to the network tab, click the cog at the top-right and make sure "Persist Logs" is on.
3. Go to https://libbyapp.com/.
4. In the dev console, type "sentry" into the filter bar.
5. Click on the furthest-down entry that is a "GET" request.
6. In the right panel, go into the "Request Headers" and find "Authorization" -- its format should be "Bearer" followed by a long string of characters. Copy just the long string.
7. Make sure Calibre is closed, and open the plugin config file (%APPDATA%\calibre\plugins\overdrive_libby.json on Windows, unsure Mac/Linux paths).
8. Find the line for "libby_token", and replace its value with the one you copied in step 6.
9. Open Calibre and the plugin should work as expected now.

Hopefully this is helpful to people.

I used your solution and it worked! Thank you so much for figuring out a work around.

Amalthia

[thebishdad]

Originally Posted by spicefather

I've been playing around with this a little bit and it looks like as Pjama suggested, they changed their security a little bit. I tried generating a new auth token in the app via the clone code and that didn't work for me, but I did the same in my browser and copied its auth token into this plugin's config and that worked perfectly.
No promises on timeline since I have limited time to work on this, but I'm going to see if I can work the newer token generation method into the plugin. Alternatively if anyone is interested in working on it I'm happy to share my findings so far.

If anyone needs to get their plugin working, you can follow the steps below. I don't know how long this lasts for, so you may end up needing to redo it after some hours/days. Also the instructions are based on Firefox, hopefully they apply to other browsers as well but if not just ask and someone will try to help out.

1. In your browser, open your dev console (ctrl-shift-I or F12 for me).
2. Go to the network tab, click the cog at the top-right and make sure "Persist Logs" is on.
3. Go to https://libbyapp.com/.
4. In the dev console, type "sentry" into the filter bar.
5. Click on the furthest-down entry that is a "GET" request.
6. In the right panel, go into the "Request Headers" and find "Authorization" -- its format should be "Bearer" followed by a long string of characters. Copy just the long string.
7. Make sure Calibre is closed, and open the plugin config file (%APPDATA%\calibre\plugins\overdrive_libby.json on Windows, unsure Mac/Linux paths).
8. Find the line for "libby_token", and replace its value with the one you copied in step 6.
9. Open Calibre and the plugin should work as expected now.

Hopefully this is helpful to people.

Thank you, but I can't seem to get it to work. I was able to follow the steps but just keep getting an error after. I've tried with chrome and Firefox. Maybe I've just got bad luck today lol.

[sgmoore]

Originally Posted by spicefather

Hopefully this is helpful to people.

It is indeed.
I tried downloading both an ebook and a magazine and both worked. (I'm sure DaySleeper will be glad to hear that).

I don't know how long this lasts for, so you may end up needing to redo it after some hours/days.

I'm hoping this won't be a problem. Every time you open the plugin it seems to generate a new token which is saved back to the overdrive_libby.json settings file and the new token still works even after you close and restart calibre.

[sgmoore]

Originally Posted by thebishdad

Thank you, but I can't seem to get it to work. I was able to follow the steps but just keep getting an error after. I've tried with chrome and Firefox. Maybe I've just got bad luck today lol.

If you deleted the old token, you may have also deleted the comma at the end of the line, or maybe you are missing the quotation marks around it

The line should look something like

  "libby_token": "eyJ0eX",

except the token will be hundreds of characters long.

[thebishdad]

Originally Posted by sgmoore

If you deleted the old token, you may have also deleted the comma at the end of the line, or maybe you are missing the quotation marks around it

The line should look something like

  "libby_token": "eyJ0eX",

except the token will be hundreds of characters long.

Hmm...I redid it and it worked lol. .I had the quotes and comma and all....maybe I had an extra space mixed in. Thank you

[adinab]

Originally Posted by spicefather

I've been playing around with this a little bit and it looks like as Pjama suggested, they changed their security a little bit. I tried generating a new auth token in the app via the clone code and that didn't work for me, but I did the same in my browser and copied its auth token into this plugin's config and that worked perfectly.
No promises on timeline since I have limited time to work on this, but I'm going to see if I can work the newer token generation method into the plugin. Alternatively if anyone is interested in working on it I'm happy to share my findings so far.

If anyone needs to get their plugin working, you can follow the steps below. I don't know how long this lasts for, so you may end up needing to redo it after some hours/days. Also the instructions are based on Firefox, hopefully they apply to other browsers as well but if not just ask and someone will try to help out.

1. In your browser, open your dev console (ctrl-shift-I or F12 for me).
2. Go to the network tab, click the cog at the top-right and make sure "Persist Logs" is on.
3. Go to https://libbyapp.com/.
4. In the dev console, type "sentry" into the filter bar.
5. Click on the furthest-down entry that is a "GET" request.
6. In the right panel, go into the "Request Headers" and find "Authorization" -- its format should be "Bearer" followed by a long string of characters. Copy just the long string.
7. Make sure Calibre is closed, and open the plugin config file (%APPDATA%\calibre\plugins\overdrive_libby.json on Windows, unsure Mac/Linux paths).
8. Find the line for "libby_token", and replace its value with the one you copied in step 6.
9. Open Calibre and the plugin should work as expected now.

Hopefully this is helpful to people.

Thank you so much! This worked for me. The path for the plugin config file for Mac would be /Users/USERNAME/Library/Preferences/calibre/plugins/overdrive_libby.json
To get to it you could also open Calibre, go to Preferences, Miscellaneous, Open Calibre Configuration Folder, then close the app when the folder opens.

And if you're using Chrome for the first steps, instead of Persist Logs, it's called Preserve Logs. So tick that and then the GET request should have an icon that looks like this: {;} and the name showed up for me as counts?cards= string of numbers and symbols

[DaySleeper]

Does it have to recognize me or my location? For some reason it's sending me to North Carolina (which is not where I am). Under Headers, there's a section labeled "Resonse Headers," but nothing with "authorization." Do I need to have logged in (and if so, how? There's a "sign in with my card" option, but since I'm not in North Carolina, there's nothing I can sign in to.

[miss_p1nky]

I got Unicode error, can someone kindly help?

calibre, version 7.9.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>UnicodeEncodeError</b>: Error synchronizing data

calibre 7.9 embedded-python: True
Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '10', '10.0.19045')
Python 3.11.5
Windows: ('10', '10.0.19045', 'SP0', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: None
EXE path: C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre.exe
Successfully initialized third party plugins: ACSM Input (0, 1, 0) && DeDRM (10, 0, 3) && ACSM Input Plugin GUI Extension (0, 1, 0) && Find Duplicates (1, 10, 9) && KindleUnpack - The Plugin (0, 83, 1) && Modify ePub (1, 8, 3) && OverDrive Libby (0, 1, 9)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre_plugins.overdrive_libby.workers", line 381, in run
File "calibre_plugins.overdrive_libby.libby.client" , line 633, in sync
File "calibre_plugins.overdrive_libby.libby.client" , line 520, in send_request
File "urllib\request.py", line 519, in open
File "urllib\request.py", line 536, in _open
File "urllib\request.py", line 496, in _call_chain
File "urllib\request.py", line 1391, in https_open
File "urllib\request.py", line 1348, in do_open
File "http\client.py", line 1286, in request
File "http\client.py", line 1327, in _send_request
File "http\client.py", line 1259, in putheader
UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character '\u2026' in position 512: ordinal not in range(256)

Thinking it was because a '...' in the middle of the string, I replaced it and now got

calibre, version 7.9.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>ClientForbiddenError</b>: Error synchronizing data<p>HTTP Error 403: Forbidden</p>

calibre 7.9 embedded-python: True
Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '10', '10.0.19045')
Python 3.11.5
Windows: ('10', '10.0.19045', 'SP0', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: None
EXE path: C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre.exe
Successfully initialized third party plugins: ACSM Input (0, 1, 0) && DeDRM (10, 0, 3) && ACSM Input Plugin GUI Extension (0, 1, 0) && Find Duplicates (1, 10, 9) && KindleUnpack - The Plugin (0, 83, 1) && Modify ePub (1, 8, 3) && OverDrive Libby (0, 1, 9)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre_plugins.overdrive_libby.libby.client" , line 520, in send_request
File "urllib\request.py", line 525, in open
File "urllib\request.py", line 634, in http_response
File "urllib\request.py", line 563, in error
File "urllib\request.py", line 496, in _call_chain
File "urllib\request.py", line 643, in http_error_default
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre_plugins.overdrive_libby.workers", line 381, in run
File "calibre_plugins.overdrive_libby.libby.client" , line 633, in sync
File "calibre_plugins.overdrive_libby.libby.client" , line 540, in send_request
File "calibre_plugins.overdrive_libby.libby.errors" , line 143, in process
calibre_plugins.overdrive_libby.libby.errors.Clien tForbiddenError: <calibre_plugins.overdrive_libby.libby.errors.Clie ntForbiddenError; http_status=403, msg='HTTP Error 403: Forbidden', error_response='{"result":"missing_chip"}''>

[mikeage]

Originally Posted by spicefather

If anyone needs to get their plugin working, you can follow the steps below. I don't know how long this lasts for, so you may end up needing to redo it after some hours/days.

Looking at the details via jwt.io, it looks like the token is valid for 7 days.

[sgmoore]

Originally Posted by DaySleeper

Does it have to recognize me or my location? For some reason it's sending me to North Carolina (which is not where I am). Under Headers, there's a section labeled "Resonse Headers," but nothing with "authorization." Do I need to have logged in (and if so, how? There's a "sign in with my card" option, but since I'm not in North Carolina, there's nothing I can sign in to.

You do need to be logged in.

If you see the hamburger menu in the middle at the bottom, then clicking on this should allow you to add a library and once you add your library it will ask you to sign in with your card.

Otherwise, if you open a new private browser window, it should ask for your library and card details when you open libbyapp.com

[sgmoore]

Originally Posted by miss_p1nky

I got Unicode error, can someone kindly help?



Thinking it was because a '...' in the middle of the string, I replaced it and now got

What browser are you using?

I suspect your browser is just showing you part of the token (which the ... to indicate that it is skipping part of it).

The full token is very long (mine is 976 characters)

[miss_p1nky]

Originally Posted by sgmoore

What browser are you using?

I suspect your browser is just showing you part of the token (which the ... to indicate that it is skipping part of it).

The full token is very long (mine is 976 characters)

Firefox. OK I'll try with Chrome.

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EDIT: Using Firefox works. Turned out blocking the strings manually is not a good idea. I used the right-click button and everything got copied in complete. Plugin now works again. Thanks to everyone.

[DaySleeper]

Originally Posted by sgmoore

You do need to be logged in.

If you see the hamburger menu in the middle at the bottom, then clicking on this should allow you to add a library and once you add your library it will ask you to sign in with your card.

Otherwise, if you open a new private browser window, it should ask for your library and card details when you open libbyapp.com

Ok, I was able to do the signin from the hamburger menu, and obtained a token. Unfortunately, when I plugged it into the json file, I got a number of error messages regarding not recognizing my cards (I have cards at 3 different libraries; I logged into one of them to be able to get the token). I had to use task manager to escape, then restored the json from the backup I made before trying this.

I went back in and logged into the other libraries, then got a new token & put it into the restored json. No more errors loading the plugin, but still getting the download error.

[Pjama]

Originally Posted by spicefather

I've been playing around with this a little bit and it looks like as Pjama suggested, they changed their security a little bit. I tried generating a new auth token in the app via the clone code and that didn't work for me, but I did the same in my browser and copied its auth token into this plugin's config and that worked perfectly.
No promises on timeline since I have limited time to work on this, but I'm going to see if I can work the newer token generation method into the plugin. Alternatively if anyone is interested in working on it I'm happy to share my findings so far.

If anyone needs to get their plugin working, you can follow the steps below. I don't know how long this lasts for, so you may end up needing to redo it after some hours/days. Also the instructions are based on Firefox, hopefully they apply to other browsers as well but if not just ask and someone will try to help out.

1. In your browser, open your dev console (ctrl-shift-I or F12 for me).
2. Go to the network tab, click the cog at the top-right and make sure "Persist Logs" is on.
3. Go to https://libbyapp.com/.
4. In the dev console, type "sentry" into the filter bar.
5. Click on the furthest-down entry that is a "GET" request.
6. In the right panel, go into the "Request Headers" and find "Authorization" -- its format should be "Bearer" followed by a long string of characters. Copy just the long string.
7. Make sure Calibre is closed, and open the plugin config file (%APPDATA%\calibre\plugins\overdrive_libby.json on Windows, unsure Mac/Linux paths).
8. Find the line for "libby_token", and replace its value with the one you copied in step 6.
9. Open Calibre and the plugin should work as expected now.

Hopefully this is helpful to people.

Wow! I wish I'd checked back here sooner, sounds amazing, thanks so much!