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[Metadata Source Plugin] Goodreads
This plugin allows Calibre to read book information from goodreads.com when you choose to download/fetch metadata. Adding this plugin can potentially increase both the success rate and quality of information retrieved for some of your books.
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04-24-2011, 04:04 PM | #2 |
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works great. Thank you!!
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04-24-2011, 04:36 PM | #3 |
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Thx for the feedback Sassafrass, great to hear.
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Thank you!! This is awesome
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I am loving the tag mapping.
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04-25-2011, 07:43 AM | #6 |
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Excellent
I have found one issue which I will publish a new version for (just waiting to see if anything else comes up). The genre tags are sorted by popularity on their web page, but I have some (legacy) code that sorts the tags after doing the mappings. So if you say set the metadata download to get only 3 tags as a limit, you get the first three alphabetically rather than the first 3 by popularity which is obviously wrong. |
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In the interim I have extended my limit to 10 tags and have been reviewing many books manually to figure out what mapping I want to include and dumping the outliers. If I already have some odd tags listed I do a manual look up on goodreads site itself to find out which tags they have and which have the highest popularity and decide which tags I might want to map out. Thanks for this plugin. |
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04-25-2011, 04:11 PM | #8 |
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v1.0.1 Released
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The second of the changes has been made in such a way as to be backwards compatible so as soon as you install Calibre 0.7.58 or later the new feature it is intended for will be enabled. |
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Based on the info below I would expect the top 5 to be Vampires, Paranormal, Romance, Chick Lit, Urban Fantasy. What I get seems to defy reason. Title - Real Vampires Have Curves Author - Gerry Bartlett IDs - isbn:9780425220962, goodreads:2619878 Top 01 - Humor Top 02 - Humor, Vampires Top 03 - Humor, Vampires, Paranormal Top 04 - Humor, Vampires, Paranormal, Romance Top 05 - Humor, Vampires, Paranormal, Romance, Fantasy Top 06 - Humor, Vampires, Paranormal, Romance, Fantasy, Adult Top 07 - Humor, Vampires, Paranormal, Romance, Fantasy, Adult, Chick Lit Top 08 - Humor, Vampires, Paranormal, Romance, Fantasy, Adult, Chick Lit, Comedy Top 09 - Humor, Vampires, Paranormal, Romance, Fantasy, Adult, Chick Lit, Comedy, Urban Fantasy Top 10 - Humor, Vampires, Paranormal, Romance, Fantasy, Adult, Chick Lit, Comedy, Urban Fantasy, Fantasy Goodreads Genre listing for this book by popularity. Dark Fantasy > Vampires --- 54 users Paranormal --- 54 users Romance > Paranormal Romance --- 33 users Womens Fiction > Chick Lit --- 26 users Romance --- 19 users Fantasy > Urban Fantasy --- 11 users Fantasy --- 7 users Adult Fiction --- 5 users Humor --- 3 users Humor > Comedy --- 2 users My Mappings: Dark Fantasy > Vampires | Vampires Paranormal | Paranormal Romance > Paranormal Romance | Paranormal, Romance Womens Fiction > Chick Lit | Chick Lit Romance | Romance Fantasy > Urban Fantasy | Urban Fantasy Fantasy | Fantasy Adult Fiction | Adult Humor | Humor Humor > Comedy | Comedy Last edited by DoctorOhh; 04-25-2011 at 11:56 PM. |
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04-26-2011, 05:50 AM | #10 |
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@Walt - thx for the info. I think I can see the problem - I just got "lucky" on the titles that I tested on. It is to do with using some (unordered) Python sets instead of lists which stopped a tag from being added twice but of course in hindsight lost the ordering. I will push a new version.
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04-26-2011, 05:59 AM | #11 |
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v1.0.2 Released
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Sorry folks for the false start on supposedly having this issued "fixed" last time, it had just coincidentally worked on the couple of titles I tried it. |
04-29-2011, 12:27 PM | #12 |
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Is this just a simple bug in the goodreads plugin when dealing with accented characters?
Example: Starting download Query: title:The Night Manager; authors:John le Carré Running identify query with parameters: {u'authors': [u'John le Carr\xe9'], u'identifiers': {}, u'timeout': 30, u'title': u'The Night Manager'} Using plugins: Goodreads, Amazon.com, Overdrive The log from individual plugins is below ****************************** Goodreads ****************************** Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.0.472.63 Safari/534.3')] Found 0 results Downloading from Goodreads took 0.0629999637604 Plugin Goodreads failed Traceback (most recent call last): File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\identify. py", line 40, in run File "calibre_plugins.goodreads.__init__", line 111, in identify File "calibre_plugins.goodreads.__init__", line 72, in create_query File "urllib.py", line 1238, in quote KeyError: u'\xe9' |
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Hi capnm - yes, that does look the case. I'll figure out a fix shortly.
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v1.0.3 Released
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I used this plugin and went through my 7300 books to update my tags. I started with around 953 tags and now that I finished I am sitting at 208 tags.
I attached my goodreads.json file with the mappings in place. I wish I had a more extensive mapping when I was doing my update to begin with. For the most part I limited tags to 4 per book, sometimes I would trim back to 1 or 2 and for Non-fiction books I would often allow up to 8. The only thing I don't have mapped is Contemporary, Modern, Adult Fiction and Adult. If a book pops up as erotica then the adult tag is also added to that book. All of the mappings in the file work. The good news with this json file is you don't have to hunt around to see what is there and how to make it work and you can easily remove tag mappings, but since it is easy to limit tags to a particular number, leaving everything in place works great without gaining too many tags. Update: If you choose to use this file you must do the following. 1. Exit calibre 2. Unzip this file, you now have a goodreads.json file 3. Find the plugins directory under your calibre configuration directory. 4. Rename your existing goodreads.json file to goodreads.json.org in case you feel the need to go back to it. 5. Place the new goodreads.json file in the plugins directory. 6. Start calibre Now you can go to Preferences - Metadata download - select goodreads - click Configure selected source to see what is currently mapped for goodreads metadata downloadable tags. Update 2: I am now running a modified version of the json file created by Huisie. This json file can be found here. It starts with about 800 goodreads tags mapped. The Goodreads json file attached to this post has about 250 Goodreads tags mapped. Either is a good starting point. Last edited by DoctorOhh; 03-18-2014 at 10:45 PM. |
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