Plugin ideas... add yours here

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by jluaioyj

A plugin to back up and restore Calibre configuration as a single file, like a .tar, .tgz or .txz archive, including plugins configuration, optionally including plugins, optionally including library names/paths. On restore, only the compatible plugins get installed, and any invalid library paths get ignored.

Would you be happy enough with a plugin that does the configuration including plugins? If so, check the [Library Closed Plugin] Backup configuration folder(s) thread.

[jluaioyj]

Edit timeout too fast.

The backup file should be a well-supported directory archive type like a .zip, .tar, .tgz or .txz, and include the plugins and their base configuration.

It may be worth proving an option to doing a subset from a library too or instead, say library specific plugin configuration, and templates, columns etc. i.e no book meta-data.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by jluaioyj

Edit timeout too fast.

The backup file should be a well-supported directory archive type like a .zip, .tar, .tgz or .txz, and include the plugins and their base configuration.

It may be worth proving an option to doing a subset from a library too or instead, say library specific plugin configuration, and templates, columns etc. i.e no book meta-data.

Did you look at the plugin @DNSB referred to? It does your first wish.

It doesn't do the second, and I have no intention of adding that. Do note, however, that library specific configuration data is backed up by calibre in the file metadata_db_prefs_backup.json. This file is used by calibre's library restore function.

[kamowski]

Hello,
I mainly use PDF documents in Calibre. I need a plugin that checks a PDF document and marks, in a separate column, whether the document contains a TOC or not.
I have a script that detects the presence of a TOC in a PDF document, but I don't know how to turn it into a plugin. I'm not a programmer, and I created this script using AI.
Can anyone me create a plugin from it?
Thank you!

[dunhill]

Now I understand the work involved in maintaining a plugin, especially if the page changes domain and apparently its structure.
I tried editing the plugin and naively changing the page address, but to no avail.

[compurandom]

Originally Posted by kamowski

Hello,
I mainly use PDF documents in Calibre. I need a plugin that checks a PDF document and marks, in a separate column, whether the document contains a TOC or not.
I have a script that detects the presence of a TOC in a PDF document, but I don't know how to turn it into a plugin. I'm not a programmer, and I created this script using AI.
Can anyone me create a plugin from it?
Thank you!

I am a programmer and this has been on my todo list for a number of years.

Too many projects right now to get to it, but here's my thoughts...

Calibre has an internal pdf library that it should be easy to leverage to do this.

Not all pdf files with a TOC actually have a TOC. Far more than I like have a "TOC" with a single entry in them, so knowing if it has a TOC is not enough, you need to check if it has more than some threshold number of entries. (Which is still trivial, but...)

[kamowski]

Originally Posted by compurandom

I am a programmer and this has been on my todo list for a number of years.

Too many projects right now to get to it, but here's my thoughts...

Calibre has an internal pdf library that it should be easy to leverage to do this.

Not all pdf files with a TOC actually have a TOC. Far more than I like have a "TOC" with a single entry in them, so knowing if it has a TOC is not enough, you need to check if it has more than some threshold number of entries. (Which is still trivial, but...)

Yes, I agree. I am currently using a script outside of Calibre in Thunar that marks PDF files with TOC. I upload them to the Calibre library, and they are tagged as "TOC" or "bezTOC". As you mentioned, not every TOC is useful—sometimes it's just a one entry, sometimes it's just a mess. But even that mess can sometimes help determine whether a PDF document is a single book or several booklets combined.
I'm not a programmer; I write my scripts with the help of AI, and it also translates this text for me. 🙂

[mitch13]

Just a quick note to this and interested to find if it is common on the Kindle. Just very recently, I now find that the Kindle does not have the option to mark books on the device as "Read"
mitch13

[Nefer]

This is my very first post here but I'm motivated. Hoping I found the right spot.

Ive found some historical gems from the Library of Congress Digital Collections (https://www.loc.gov/collections/ - scroll down and choose Digital on the left) and they offer free downloads.

How does one make a Store so it gets searched by Calibre when you choose "Get Books"? I dont know how to code but I copy effectively in Notepad and can insert a URL with the best of them.

Thank you.

[dunhill]

Originally Posted by Nefer

This is my very first post here but I'm motivated. Hoping I found the right spot.

Ive found some historical gems from the Library of Congress Digital Collections (https://www.loc.gov/collections/ - scroll down and choose Digital on the left) and they offer free downloads.

How does one make a Store so it gets searched by Calibre when you choose "Get Books"? I dont know how to code but I copy effectively in Notepad and can insert a URL with the best of them.

Thank you.

It seems like a screen to add a store address when getting a book would be helpful. I've checked, and it doesn't seem to be possible to add one.

[BetterRed]

Each "store" requires a plugin, there's a bunch included in the base, and there are some optional Store plugins, see ==>> Index of plugins

BR

[dunhill]

Originally Posted by Nefer

This is my very first post here but I'm motivated. Hoping I found the right spot.

Ive found some historical gems from the Library of Congress Digital Collections (https://www.loc.gov/collections/ - scroll down and choose Digital on the left) and they offer free downloads.

How does one make a Store so it gets searched by Calibre when you choose "Get Books"? I dont know how to code but I copy effectively in Notepad and can insert a URL with the best of them.

Thank you.

I modified a store plugin, check if it works for you.

[Rellwood]

Found this post on reddit, and it seems like someone has managed to create a plugin that passes an argument to an AI source to get very fast metadata information for books.

Someone please check out this post and see if it can be made into a proper plugin?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Calibre/com...mment/mwt76c6/

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Rellwood

Found this post on reddit, and it seems like someone has managed to create a plugin that passes an argument to an AI source to get very fast metadata information for books.

Someone please check out this post and see if it can be made into a proper plugin?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Calibre/com...mment/mwt76c6/

Perhaps you might want to look at the thread in this forum created by the author of the Reddit item you linked? Might be easier than asking someone else to re-invent the wheel. See @mitsie's A.I Metadata Plugin thread which at the time I'm writing this message is the second message from the top.