[Metadata Source Plugin] Kobo Metadata

[NotSimone]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Is this the language code entered on the line that reads: 2 Letter language code to search for? I tried 'all' in there and the generated URL started with https://www.kobo.com/ca/all/search? where all is where a 2 letter language code should be found. It's possible that Kobo updated their web server code to only allow valid language codes in that position.

What version were you using? jjangsangy actually made a change to this in version 1.12.0 that fixed the handling of "all".

Originally Posted by nephtys59

Something has changed. Kobo metadata plugin stopped working for me a couple days ago. I changed from "all" to "it" in settings and now it works but doesn't get ISBN and publication date like it did before. Probably the plugin needs an update.

Do you have a specific example? Kobo have in the past put different versions of the webpage for different countries, probably to do some A/B testing. I would suggest trying another country if it breaks.

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

I think I have the same question as nAhu...is it possible to make the plug-in pull down bold text in the description when it grabs from Kobo? It pulls the description successfully, but it's all in plaintext, and I also notice sometimes line-breaks are missing. So I end up manually copy-pasting from the Kobo description page anyway just to make it look prettier.

The plugin doesn't strip any of the formatting and I have reasonably recently downloaded metadata with bolded text. Do you have a specific example of one where it is broken? If I were to hazard a wild guess, this could be related to which country you have picked.

[NotSimone]

More broadly, I don't really check this site and I somehow missed the email notifications. It would be better if any bug reports go on the github, or at the least, include specific examples of something that is broken.

[nephtys59]

Do you have a specific example? Kobo have in the past put different versions of the webpage for different countries, probably to do some A/B testing. I would suggest trying another country if it breaks.

Ok, I made a test with this book I purchased from Kobo italian site: https://www.kobo.com/it/it/ebook/all...gnor-weynfeldt

In January the "all" setting didn't work at all, so I switched it to "it" but the data "Publication date" and "ISBN" are not retrieved, even if they are present on the web page (bottom).

This morning, making tests for you, I switched back to "all" settings and magically started working again, retrieving also Publ. date and ISBN. Who knows what happened?

See images attached. Thanks!

[NotSimone]

Originally Posted by nephtys59

Ok, I made a test with this book I purchased from Kobo italian site: https://www.kobo.com/it/it/ebook/all...gnor-weynfeldt

In January the "all" setting didn't work at all, so I switched it to "it" but the data "Publication date" and "ISBN" are not retrieved, even if they are present on the web page (bottom).

This morning, making tests for you, I switched back to "all" settings and magically started working again, retrieving also Publ. date and ISBN. Who knows what happened?

See images attached. Thanks!

Hmm we'll probably chalk that up to Kobo doing some testing with ui updates then. Hopefully they don't do that too many more times