[Plugin] ComicMeta

SubtleNinja · 05-05-2025, 03:31 AM

Hello everyone!

One thing that's annoyed me since I discovered koreader is that it can't read metadata from .cbz files ("because muPDF doesn't support it", and "there's no standard"). Almost all of my cbz files use ComicInfo.xml.

I decided to take it upon myself to make a plugin to do this using custom metadata. It's still early days, and only supports the Title, Series, Series Index, description, and authors fields so far.

I've uploaded my code here: https://github.com/NightQuest/comicmeta.koplugin

Figured I'd share since I know other people have ran across the same issue. :3

hius07 · 05-05-2025, 05:45 AM

Looking at the code, it will crash in line 52 if called from Reader (opened book).

SubtleNinja · 05-05-2025, 03:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hius07

Looking at the code, it will crash in line 52 if called from Reader (opened book).

Thank you for catching that! I've added a guard for that.

gereksizuser · 05-07-2025, 09:00 AM

Nevermind, I asked why the plugin can't find metadata, but then I realized that there are no .xml files in my .cbz files.

05-05-2025, 03:31 AM	#1
SubtleNinja Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2025 Device: Kindle PW5SE	[Plugin] ComicMeta Hello everyone! One thing that's annoyed me since I discovered koreader is that it can't read metadata from .cbz files ("because muPDF doesn't support it", and "there's no standard"). Almost all of my cbz files use ComicInfo.xml. I decided to take it upon myself to make a plugin to do this using custom metadata. It's still early days, and only supports the Title, Series, Series Index, description, and authors fields so far. I've uploaded my code here: https://github.com/NightQuest/comicmeta.koplugin Figured I'd share since I know other people have ran across the same issue. :3

05-07-2025, 09:00 AM	#4
gereksizuser Enthusiast Posts: 34 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2021 Device: Kobo Aura Edition 2	Nevermind, I asked why the plugin can't find metadata, but then I realized that there are no .xml files in my .cbz files. Last edited by gereksizuser; 05-07-2025 at 11:53 AM. Reason: typo

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05-05-2025, 05:45 AM	#2
hius07 Wizard Posts: 1,162 Karma: 3592925 Join Date: Sep 2014 Location: Ukraine Device: Kindle	Looking at the code, it will crash in line 52 if called from Reader (opened book).