Download Metadata: Error no matches

[pjcullin]

Since the last couple of updates, i've noticed i mostly get this error when trying to download metadata.
Working on Mac OS Sequoia(15.1.1)

calibre, version 7.23.0
ERROR: No matches found: <p>Failed to find any books that match your search. Try making the search <b>less specific</b>. For example, use only the author's last name and a single distinctive word from the title.<p>To see the full log, click "Show details".

Running identify query with parameters:
{'title': 'Twinkle Twinkle Deadly Sprinkles', 'authors': ['Ruth Baker'], 'identifiers': {}, 'timeout': 30}
Using plugins: Google (1, 1, 1), Amazon.com (1, 3, 11), Edelweiss (2, 0, 1)
The log from individual plugins is below

****************************** Google (1, 1, 1) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from Google took 1.1895098686218262
Making query: https://books.google.com/books/feeds...ewability=none
No results found, doing a web search instead
Making query: https://www.google.com/search?q=Twin...+Baker&tbm=bks
Plugin Google failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/identify.py", line 47, in run
File "calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/google.py", line 536, in identify
File "calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/google.py", line 441, in identify_via_web_search
File "contextlib.py", line 155, in __exit__
File "calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/search_engines.py", line 58, in rate_limit
File "calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/search_engines.py", line 100, in query
File "mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 241, in open_novisit
File "mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 313, in _mech_open
mechanize._response.get_seek_wrapper_class.<locals >.httperror_seek_wrapper: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

************************************************** ******************************

****************************** Amazon.com (1, 3, 11) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from Amazon.com took 0.4779808521270752
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Server: auto
Making bing query: https://www.bing.com/search?q=Twinkl...www.amazon.com
Bing returned no results
No search engine results for terms: Twinkle Twinkle Deadly Sprinkles Ruth Baker
No matches found with query: ['Twinkle', 'Twinkle', 'Deadly', 'Sprinkles', 'Ruth', 'Baker']

************************************************** ******************************

****************************** Edelweiss (2, 0, 1) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from Edelweiss took 0.034204959869384766
Currently Edelweiss returns random books for search queries

************************************************** ******************************
The identify phase took 1.23 seconds
The longest time (1.189510) was taken by: Google
Merging results from different sources
We have 0 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds

[DNSB]

If you try changing the Amazon metadata download to use Amazon servers instead of Bing search cache, do you get any results then? Google and Bing have become pretty useless when it comes to getting metadata.

Also not sure why you are using Edelweiss since as the log file comments, Edelweiss is returning random books for search queries.

[pjcullin]

Thanks David, that was the key to it! Appreciate the quick response!

[Jwt0001]

Thanks for this. I don't know how mine changed to not use Amazon's servers, but I fixed my issue as well!

[setherd]

Thank you! I had the same issue and fix.

[DNSB]

Great to hear that that post has helped multiple people!

[Comfy.n]

I saw this recent commit then went looking for some explanation:

https://x.com/BingWMC/status/1866942204910112957

...which is pretty much a copypaste of

https://x.com/searchliaison/status/1753156161509916873

and IMO doesn't seem to provide real motives.

[Bookstooge]

Just chiming in that this helped me as well. I've changed it back to the amazon servers and we're back in business.