02-15-2018, 07:08 AM | #1 |
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'Download metadata' problem
The 'Download metadata' facility used to find info 9 times out of 10. Now it's more like 1 in 10
It just comes up with "Failed to find any books that match your search" In the 'Configure Metadata download' window I have Amazon.com, Big Book search, Google and Open Library selected. Is there anything I can change to improve the search function? I'm running vers3.16 Thanks in advance for any help offered |
02-15-2018, 07:26 AM | #2 |
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Look at the log, it will tell you what is failing. Most likely you just need to change the server used to download metadata from amazon, as you are being blocked by the default server.
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02-15-2018, 07:27 AM | #3 |
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Isn't that rather the behaviour you'd expect? After all, a book's metadata is set by the publisher, and then sent to all the bookstores. If a book is lacking metadata, the odds are that it will lack it everywhere. It's unlikely that any metadata source will have metadata that's not already in the book.
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02-15-2018, 07:49 AM | #4 |
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Thanks for the fast reply folks.
Kovid, how do I change the server used, as you suggested. I've copied the log below:- Running identify query with parameters: {u'title': u'We Were Just Kids', u'timeout': 30, u'identifiers': {u'mobi-asin': u'386b2811-df3b-43d7-9884-59b514b3ba75'}, u'authors': [u'Lee Cern']} Using plugins: Google (1, 0, 0), Amazon.com (1, 2, 0) The log from individual plugins is below ****************************** Amazon.com (1, 2, 0) ****************************** Found 0 results Downloading from Amazon.com took 5.00400018692 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/601.7.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.1.2 Safari/601.7.7 Server: auto Making google query: https://www.google.com/search?q=We+W...w.amazon.co.uk Skipping non-book result: Result(url='https://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B078Q4CF5B', title=u'Amazon.co.uk:Customer reviews: We Were Just Kids: Once Upon A ...', cached_url='https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:K4bxARxZ5Q4J:https://www.amazon.co.uk/product-rev...&ct=clnk&gl=uk') Skipping non-book result: Result(url='https://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B078GQRFCR', title=u'Amazon.co.uk:Customer reviews: A Tale of Shadows', cached_url='https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-XPDOMG6H_gJ:https://www.amazon.co.uk/product-rev...&ct=clnk&gl=uk') Skipping non-book result: Result(url='https://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B075V8S3MX', title=u'Amazon.co.uk:Customer reviews: Tears, Love, and Laughter: Bill and ...', cached_url='https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LOcsByt9XpcJ:https://www.amazon.co.uk/product-rev...&ct=clnk&gl=uk') Getting details from: https://webcache.googleusercontent.c...&ct=clnk&gl=uk Ignoring result: A Tale of Shadows as its title does not match Getting details from: https://webcache.googleusercontent.c...&ct=clnk&gl=uk Ignoring result: The Hunger Within as its title does not match Getting details from: https://webcache.googleusercontent.c...&ct=clnk&gl=uk Ignoring result: Lighthouse in the Woods as its title does not match ************************************************** ****************************** ****************************** Google (1, 0, 0) ****************************** Found 0 results Downloading from Google took 1.0490000248 Making query: https://books.google.com/books/feeds...max-results=20 No results found, retrying without identifiers Making query: https://books.google.com/books/feeds...max-results=20 ************************************************** ****************************** The identify phase took 5.20 seconds The longest time (5.004000) was taken by: Amazon.com Merging results from different sources and finding earliest publication dates from the worldcat.org service We have 0 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds |
02-15-2018, 12:06 PM | #5 |
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You can change the server in preferences->metadata dwnload->customize the amazon source
You appear to have set it to amazon UK try changing to amazon US |
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02-22-2018, 05:03 PM | #6 |
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I've been using Amazon US for metadata without problems for a long time.
As of today, I'm getting pretty much this same failure from Amazon US's server. (Changing to Amazon CA got results coming through again.) Maybe Amazon is blacklisting heavy users? |
02-22-2018, 09:41 PM | #7 |
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Amazon has been blacklisting IP addresses for a while. calibre currently uses various different sources for amazon metadata, google, bing, internet archive in addition to amazon itself. You can configure these sources via Preferences->Metadata download
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02-24-2018, 11:08 PM | #8 |
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Same problem with downloading metadata
Unable to download Metadata and Covers for Calibre. Have tried changing the server for Amazon without success. Still getting the 'Failed to find any books that Match you search'. Have opened my Firewall as well, removed my adblocker program and closed Little Snitch as other options to fix the problem.
Here is the error message..... Any ideas? calibre, version 3.17.0 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: {u'identifiers': {u'mobi-asin': u'B015X5KBJG', u'isbn': u'9781449478667'}, u'title': u'Milk and Honey', u'timeout': 30, u'authors': [u'Rupi Kaur']} Using plugins: Google (1, 0, 0), Amazon.com (1, 2, 0), Edelweiss (1, 0, 0), Overdrive (1, 0, 0) The log from individual plugins is below ****************************** Google (1, 0, 0) ****************************** Found 0 results Downloading from Google took 0.0995218753815 Making query: https://books.google.com/books/feeds...ewability=none Failed to make identify query: u'https://books.google.com/books/feeds/volumes?q=isbn%3A9781449478667&max-results=20&start-index=1&min-viewability=none' Traceback (most recent call last): File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/google.py", line 362, in identify File "site-packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 239, in open_novisit File "site-packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 284, in _mech_open File "site-packages/mechanize/_opener.py", line 195, in open File "site-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 352, in _open File "site-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 340, in _call_chain File "site-packages/calibre/utils/browser.py", line 28, in https_open File "site-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 1160, in do_open URLError: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:590)> ************************************************** ****************************** ****************************** Overdrive (1, 0, 0) ****************************** Found 0 results Downloading from Overdrive took 0.90732884407 Initial query is Rupi Kaur Cross reference query is Honey ************************************************** ****************************** ****************************** Amazon.com (1, 2, 0) ****************************** Found 0 results Downloading from Amazon.com took 0.0841798782349 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.76 Safari/537.36 Server: bing Plugin Amazon.com failed Traceback (most recent call last): File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/identify.py", line 48, in run File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/amazon.py", line 1342, in identify File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/amazon.py", line 1273, in search_search_engine AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'bing_url_processor' ************************************************** ****************************** ****************************** Edelweiss (1, 0, 0) ****************************** Found 0 results Downloading from Edelweiss took 2.04865312576 Using query URL: https://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.c...=9781449478667 Using query URL: https://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.c...bsk=Milk+Honey ************************************************** ****************************** The identify phase took 2.11 seconds The longest time (2.048653) was taken by: Edelweiss Merging results from different sources and finding earliest publication dates from the worldcat.org service We have 0 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds |
02-24-2018, 11:40 PM | #9 |
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Update to calibre 3.18 and you will be fine.
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02-25-2018, 05:19 PM | #10 |
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Still not working, any other thoughts??
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02-25-2018, 08:50 PM | #11 |
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With what error?
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03-03-2018, 05:11 PM | #12 |
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I was having this problem and then I realized it was because I had updated Kindle for PC and needed to go back to version 1.17
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03-04-2018, 08:02 AM | #13 |
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I tried to download metadata with Calibre 3.17, but this failed.
I decided to upgrade to the latest version, 3.18, but no success. MacOS High Sierra calibre, version 3.18.0 ERROR: Download failed: Failed to download metadata. Click Show Details to see details Traceback (most recent call last): File "site-packages/calibre/utils/ipc/simple_worker.py", line 51, in run File "site-packages/calibre/utils/ipc/__init__.py", line 22, in eintr_retry_call EOFError Last edited by AnneT; 03-04-2018 at 08:05 AM. |
03-04-2018, 09:54 AM | #14 |
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That's an error launching the worker process calibre uses to download metadata, most likely something on your computer blocking it (many antivirus/security programs block processes that access the internet often).
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03-14-2018, 01:33 PM | #15 |
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Well, I have been using Bitdefender for over two years now, always alongside Calibre, and never had this problem.
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