Metadata Download recently fails to match at all

drdancm · 09-08-2025, 02:31 AM

Starting with the last couple of updates (now using v 8.10) the Download Metadata & Covers feature has problems. The Left Window does not match the downloaded book at all. This happens with about 50% or more of the books.
here is an example:

Anyone else have this problem? Or is there something set wrong with my Calibre?

Thanks

Terisa de morgan · 09-08-2025, 03:02 AM

Same for me, and it happens mainly when there is no identifier to guide.

kovidgoyal · 09-08-2025, 03:54 AM

There have been no changes to metadata download in calibre, check what metadata source plugins you have installed.

Terisa de morgan · 09-08-2025, 05:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

There have been no changes to metadata download in calibre, check what metadata source plugins you have installed.

Same than before. And, usually, it found an Amazon book with no relationship at all with the book you're downloading metadata. And always the same wrong book in a session.

kovidgoyal · 09-08-2025, 08:04 AM

Post the log from a download session. As far as I know amazon metadata is broken and has been for a while because amazon is blocking calibre via CAPTCHAs.

deanarue · 09-12-2025, 12:02 PM

Same issue here - all sources fail to match.
calibre, version 8.10.0
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".

Spoiler:

[IMG]"C:\Users\pdrue\OneDrive\Pictures\1 .png"[/IMG]

says cannot reach plugin index page

theducks · 09-12-2025, 07:41 PM

you can't reference an Image the exists on your C drive and have us see it. You need to upload as an Attachment (use the paperclip icon )

You don't have enough posts yet to attach files.

PeterT · 09-12-2025, 09:34 PM

Common to all your errors appears to be an issue for calibre to access web sites. Do you have any restrictions in place (firewall/anti virus/public - private restrictions) preventing calibre from network access?

JSWolf · 09-14-2025, 04:27 AM

It's things like this why I update the metadata (as needed) manually. It;s a lot easier and a lot faster then having to fix the downloaded metadata.

09-08-2025, 02:31 AM	#1
drdancm Enthusiast Posts: 35 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: Kindle	Metadata Download recently fails to match at all Starting with the last couple of updates (now using v 8.10) the Download Metadata & Covers feature has problems. The Left Window does not match the downloaded book at all. This happens with about 50% or more of the books. here is an example: Anyone else have this problem? Or is there something set wrong with my Calibre? Thanks Attached Thumbnails

09-12-2025, 12:02 PM	#6
deanarue Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Boise Device: ONDA OCTACORE	same issue Same issue here - all sources fail to match. calibre, version 8.10.0 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". Spoiler: Running identify query with parameters: {'title': 'Never Flinch: A Novel', 'authors': ['Stephen King'], 'identifiers': {}, 'timeout': 30} Using plugins: Barnes & Noble (1, 5, 7), Goodreads (1, 8, 3), Kobo Metadata (1, 12, 0), Google (1, 1, 2), Amazon.com (1, 3, 13), Edelweiss (2, 0, 1) The log from individual plugins is below **************************** Barnes & Noble (1, 5, 7) ************************** Found 0 results Downloading from Barnes & Noble took 3.7386536598205566 Querying: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/nev...stephen%20king Failed to make identify query Traceback (most recent call last): File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 1236, in do_open File "http\client.py", line 1303, in request File "http\client.py", line 1349, in _send_request File "http\client.py", line 1298, in endheaders File "http\client.py", line 1058, in _send_output File "http\client.py", line 996, in send File "http\client.py", line 1468, in connect File "http\client.py", line 962, in connect File "socket.py", line 839, in create_connection File "socket.py", line 974, in getaddrinfo socket.gaierror: [Errno 11002] getaddrinfo failed During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "calibre_plugins.barnes_noble.__init__", line 164, in identify File "mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 241, in open_novisit File "mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 287, in _mech_open File "mechanize\_opener.py", line 193, in open File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 425, in _open File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 414, in _call_chain File "calibre\utils\browser.py", line 29, in https_open File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 1240, in do_open urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 11002] getaddrinfo failed> ********************************************** ************************** ************************** Goodreads (1, 8, 3) ************************** Found 0 results Downloading from Goodreads took 3.833251476287842 identify - start. title=Never Flinch: A Novel, authors=['Stephen King'], identifiers={} Querying: https://www.goodreads.com/search?sea...e=books&search[query]=Never+Flinch+Stephen+King Failed to make identify query: 'https://www.goodreads.com/search?search_type=books&search[query]=Never+Flinch+Stephen+King' Traceback (most recent call last): File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 1236, in do_open File "http\client.py", line 1303, in request File "http\client.py", line 1349, in _send_request File "http\client.py", line 1298, in endheaders File "http\client.py", line 1058, in _send_output File "http\client.py", line 996, in send File "http\client.py", line 1468, in connect File "http\client.py", line 962, in connect File "socket.py", line 839, in create_connection File "socket.py", line 974, in getaddrinfo socket.gaierror: [Errno 11002] getaddrinfo failed During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "calibre_plugins.goodreads.__init__", line 232, in identify File "mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 241, in open_novisit File "mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 287, in _mech_open File "mechanize\_opener.py", line 193, in open File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 425, in _open File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 414, in _call_chain File "calibre\utils\browser.py", line 29, in https_open File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 1240, in do_open urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 11002] getaddrinfo failed> ********************************************** ************************** ************************** Kobo Metadata (1, 12, 0) ************************** Found 0 results Downloading from Kobo Metadata took 2.6313300132751465 KoboMetadata::identify: title: Never Flinch: A Novel, authors: ['Stephen King'], identifiers: {} No matches found with identifiers, falling back to general search. KoboMetadata:erform_search: Searching with query: Never Flinch: A Novel Stephen King KoboMetadata:erform_query: Searching for book with url: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?qu...fclanguages=en KoboMetadata::get_webpage: Got exception while opening url: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='www.kobo.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /us/en/search?query=Never+Flinch%3A+A+Novel+Stephen+King& fcmedia=Book&pageNumber=1&fclanguages=en (Caused by NameResolutionError("<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConn ection object at 0x000001C7DBD32790>: Failed to resolve 'www.kobo.com' ([Errno 11002] getaddrinfo failed)")) KoboMetadata:erform_query: Could not get url: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?qu...fclanguages=en ********************************************** ************************** ************************** Google (1, 1, 2) ************************** Found 0 results Downloading from Google took 3.73557448387146 Making query: https://books.google.com/books/feeds...ewability=none Failed to make identify query: 'https://books.google.com/books/feeds/volumes?q=intitle%3ANever+intitle%3AFlinch%3A+inti tle%3ANovel%2Binauthor%3AStephen+inauthor%3AKing&m ax-results=20&start-index=1&min-viewability=none' Traceback (most recent call last): File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 1236, in do_open File "http\client.py", line 1303, in request File "http\client.py", line 1349, in _send_request File "http\client.py", line 1298, in endheaders File "http\client.py", line 1058, in _send_output File "http\client.py", line 996, in send File "http\client.py", line 1468, in connect File "http\client.py", line 962, in connect File "socket.py", line 839, in create_connection File "socket.py", line 974, in getaddrinfo socket.gaierror: [Errno 11002] getaddrinfo failed During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\google.py", line 515, in make_query File "mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 241, in open_novisit File "mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 287, in _mech_open File "mechanize\_opener.py", line 193, in open File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 425, in _open File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 414, in _call_chain File "calibre\utils\browser.py", line 29, in https_open File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 1240, in do_open urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 11002] getaddrinfo failed> ********************************************** ************************** ************************** Amazon.com (1, 3, 13) ************************** Found 0 results Downloading from Amazon.com took 2.693596363067627 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.6 Safari/605.1.15 Server: auto Making google query: https://www.google.com/search?q=Neve...www.amazon.com Plugin Amazon.com failed Traceback (most recent call last): File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 1236, in do_open File "http\client.py", line 1303, in request File "http\client.py", line 1349, in _send_request File "http\client.py", line 1298, in endheaders File "http\client.py", line 1058, in _send_output File "http\client.py", line 996, in send File "http\client.py", line 1468, in connect File "http\client.py", line 962, in connect File "socket.py", line 839, in create_connection File "socket.py", line 974, in getaddrinfo socket.gaierror: [Errno 11002] getaddrinfo failed During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\identify.py", line 47, in run File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\amazon.py", line 1646, in identify File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\amazon.py", line 1574, in search_search_engine File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\search_engines.py ", line 415, in google_search 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 287, in _mech_open File "mechanize\_opener.py", line 193, in open File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 425, in _open File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 414, in _call_chain File "calibre\utils\browser.py", line 29, in https_open File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 1240, in do_open urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 11002] getaddrinfo failed> ********************************************** ************************** ************************** Edelweiss (2, 0, 1) ************************** Found 0 results Downloading from Edelweiss took 3.7016284465789795 Currently Edelweiss returns random books for search queries ********************************************** **************************** The identify phase took 3.90 seconds The longest time (3.833251) was taken by: Goodreads Merging results from different sources We have 0 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds [IMG]"C:\Users\pdrue\OneDrive\Pictures\1 .png"[/IMG] says cannot reach plugin index page Last edited by theducks; 09-12-2025 at 07:38 PM. 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09-08-2025, 03:02 AM	#2
Terisa de morgan Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,663 Karma: 12595249 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Madrid, Spain Device: Kobo Clara/Aura One/Forma,XiaoMI 5, iPad, Huawei MediaPad, YotaPhone 2	Same for me, and it happens mainly when there is no identifier to guide.

09-08-2025, 03:54 AM	#3
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,497 Karma: 28548962 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	There have been no changes to metadata download in calibre, check what metadata source plugins you have installed.

09-08-2025, 08:04 AM	#5
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,497 Karma: 28548962 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Post the log from a download session. As far as I know amazon metadata is broken and has been for a while because amazon is blocking calibre via CAPTCHAs.

09-12-2025, 07:41 PM	#7
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 31,166 Karma: 60406498 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	you can't reference an Image the exists on your C drive and have us see it. You need to upload as an Attachment (use the paperclip icon ) You don't have enough posts yet to attach files.

09-12-2025, 09:34 PM	#8
PeterT Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,598 Karma: 79436940 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto Device: Libra H2O, Libra Colour	Common to all your errors appears to be an issue for calibre to access web sites. Do you have any restrictions in place (firewall/anti virus/public - private restrictions) preventing calibre from network access?

09-14-2025, 04:27 AM	#9
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 80,221 Karma: 148951761 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	It's things like this why I update the metadata (as needed) manually. It;s a lot easier and a lot faster then having to fix the downloaded metadata.