Amazon.com Metadata Not Working

[kevinp]

I followed the instructions in this Reddit post and now metadata downloads are working fine for me. It's a rather old post, but it is still working.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Calibre/com..._with_calibre/

[sourcecodemage]

Originally Posted by kevinp

I followed the instructions in this Reddit post and now metadata downloads are working fine for me. It's a rather old post, but it is still working.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Calibre/com..._with_calibre/

That sort of works. I'm using Amazon as my reference, and ASIN:B010OS8BQW as my test case. I did find the book on Goodreads, but its Published date was way off. It said it was published in 1969 instead of 2014. Oops. So I still go back to amazon to get the correct date and fix it.

I've be trying to get the Amazon metadata plugin to work like this

Title: Spider-Man
ids: amazon:B010OS8BQW
Author: Unknown or Author: Stan Lee

calibre, version 8.5.0
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': 'Spider-Man', 'authors': ['Stan Lee'], 'identifiers': {'amazon': 'B010OS8BQW'}, 'timeout': 30} 
Using plugins: Amazon.com (1, 3, 13) 
The log from individual plugins is below 

****************************** Amazon.com (1, 3, 13) ****************************** 
Found 0 results 
Downloading from Amazon.com took 1.3944320678710938 
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: amazon
Downloading details from: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B010OS8BQW
Failed to make identify query: 'https://www.amazon.com/s/?search-alias=aps&unfiltered=1&sort=relevanceexprank&field-keywords=B010OS8BQW'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/amazon.py", line 1511, in search_amazon
  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 503: Service Unavailable 

******************************************************************************** 
The identify phase took 1.43 seconds 
The longest time (1.394432) was taken by: Amazon.com 
Merging results from different sources 
We have 0 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds

If I paste the query 'https://www.amazon.com/s/?search-alias=aps&unfiltered=1&sort=relevanceexprank&field-keywords=B010OS8BQW' into Firefox, it returns exactly one match, which is what I expected. For some reason the search plugin is getting a 503, though.

Also, I can find the book info here -> https://www.amazon.com/s?k=B010OS8BQ...qw%2Caps%2C179 but Calibre cannot find it. It returns an HTTP Error 503 instead.

Is there a setting I can change to get past the HTTP Error 503?

[GalacticHull]

I haven't been able to grab metadata from amazon in about a year. There seems to be no fix. :/

[theducks]

Originally Posted by GalacticHull

I haven't been able to grab metadata from amazon in about a year. There seems to be no fix. :/

Be sure you have configured the Metadata SOURCE (amazon in this case) correctly.
One way you get at the setting:
Start the Metadata Editor: click Configure Download Metadata: Select Amazon (also observe it must be ticked to use): Click Configure Selected sourse.

You should be at (image)
This is where you set which COUNTRY and what to use for servers.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by GalacticHull

I haven't been able to grab metadata from amazon in about a year. There seems to be no fix. :/

Doesn't really matter as most metadata you download has errors and you have to manually double check it anyway, Just do it manually like you would have to do when you double checked.

[BetterRed]

@theducks - do you know how to get another country added to the Amazon country website to use: list, there's recent request to add Turkey in the plugin ideas thread ==>> Reply 2010:

BR

[theducks]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

@theducks - do you know how to get another country added to the Amazon country website to use: list, there's recent request to add Turkey in the plugin ideas thread ==>> Reply 2010:

BR

That is a built in setting, so that is Kovid and company

[kovidgoyal]

amazon isnt working anymore it presents captchas after one or two requests so not much point in adding another country.

[DNSB]

For what it may be worth, Amazon using Amazon Canada's servers allows me to make ~8-10 individual requests before deciding I'm too annoying.

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by DNSB

For what it may be worth, Amazon using Amazon Canada's servers allows me to make ~8-10 individual requests before deciding I'm too annoying.

That's probably because not many people use amazon.ca (the default is amazon.com)

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

That's probably because not many people use amazon.ca (the default is amazon.com)

I gave up on using amazon.com when I found that a few of my books from amazon.ca had ASINs that were different from books of the same title/author on amazon.com. This produced some rather strange metadata downloads when using the default metadata download.

[theducks]

Any clue why the diff? My old dead tree collection just had prices for US and Canada on the cover.
Are they now bu Language variant (en-CA) editions
Eh!

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by theducks

Any clue why the diff? My old dead tree collection just had prices for US and Canada on the cover.

I suspect they may be books that have different publishers in Canada and the US. Since I can't purchase ebooks from amazon.com, I've never dug deeply into the issue.

And yeah, most of my dead tree books had the same dual pricing.

[DriftCipher]

This started happening to me this week too. It worked previously.

Specifically it finds the exact URL, and then tries to use a query URL. Why would it bother with that if it had the exact URL?

Anyway, I guess 503 error falls into this capcha situation? It worked for me last week, but this week I am getting this a lot. No change to my settings.

calibre, version 8.12.0
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': 'Storm Strider 1: A LitRPG Fantasy Adventure', 'authors': ['Maradina'], 'identifiers': {'amazon': 'B0FP2RR7F3', 'mobi-asin': 'B0FP2RR7F3'}, 'timeout': 30} 
Using plugins: Amazon.com (1, 3, 13) 
The log from individual plugins is below 

****************************** Amazon.com (1, 3, 13) ****************************** 
Found 0 results 
Downloading from Amazon.com took 1.6315245628356934 
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/136.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Server: amazon
Downloading details from: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FP2RR7F3
Failed to make identify query: 'https://www.amazon.com/s/?search-alias=aps&unfiltered=1&sort=relevanceexprank&field-keywords=B0FP2RR7F3'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\amazon.py", line 1511, in search_amazon
  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 503: Service Unavailable 

******************************************************************************** 
The identify phase took 1.80 seconds 
The longest time (1.631525) was taken by: Amazon.com 
Merging results from different sources 
We have 0 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DriftCipher

This started happening to me this week too. It worked previously.

Specifically it finds the exact URL, and then tries to use a query URL. Why would it bother with that if it had the exact URL?

Anyway, I guess 503 error falls into this capcha situation? It worked for me last week, but this week I am getting this a lot. No change to my settings.

calibre, version 8.12.0
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': 'Storm Strider 1: A LitRPG Fantasy Adventure', 'authors': ['Maradina'], 'identifiers': {'amazon': 'B0FP2RR7F3', 'mobi-asin': 'B0FP2RR7F3'}, 'timeout': 30} 
Using plugins: Amazon.com (1, 3, 13) 
The log from individual plugins is below 

****************************** Amazon.com (1, 3, 13) ****************************** 
Found 0 results 
Downloading from Amazon.com took 1.6315245628356934 
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/136.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Server: amazon
Downloading details from: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FP2RR7F3
Failed to make identify query: 'https://www.amazon.com/s/?search-alias=aps&unfiltered=1&sort=relevanceexprank&field-keywords=B0FP2RR7F3'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\amazon.py", line 1511, in search_amazon
  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 503: Service Unavailable 

******************************************************************************** 
The identify phase took 1.80 seconds 
The longest time (1.631525) was taken by: Amazon.com 
Merging results from different sources 
We have 0 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds

Forget Amazon.com metadata download. It really does not work well and it's unlikely to be fixed.