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Old 02-25-2017, 09:55 AM   #1
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Hi,

I keep getting the following error message when trying to refine the metadata on my books, which are not uncommon books at all. They are all listed on Amazon and bn.com. I have tried deleting all the metadata and just using the ISBN but nothing seems to help. The title of the book is perfect, the author matches completely, but still I fail book after book.

I'm running macOS Sierra version 10.12.3 and have the latest version of Calibre available. There are no issues with my wifi and this is just a recent problem since the new update. Can anyone help me with this?

This is what the error message tells me to copy:

calibre, version 2.80.0
ERROR: Download failed: Failed to download metadata. Click Show Details to see details

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Old 02-25-2017, 12:26 PM   #3
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And what is in the details?
A failed download could be the site was down or the query is now malformed due to site changes.

DETAILS are very important.
How many sites do you allow in your metadata searches?
Do you have any additional (user) metadata source plugins installed?
{authors} {title} {identifiers} of the book in Calibre

All these (and more) affect a metadata fetch
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Old 02-25-2017, 02:37 PM   #4
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I met similar issue with Cal V2.73 and win 7 x64.
I used to open "Metadata Modify" window and press the bottom button "Metadata Download".
Metadata Search ran like Swiss cuckoo clock for years.
I did not change any params. And one day this search hangs Calibre. No error message. I have to kill the freezed process.
Strangely, Book cover download was ok.

I update to 2.79 and the issue was still there.

Right now I found a way to bypass the issue.
Ctrl + D
and I click first left button "Download only Metadata".
It works fine. You can manually choose which field to update.


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Old 02-25-2017, 02:57 PM   #5
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I met similar issue with Cal V2.73 and win 7 x64.
I used to open "Metadata Modify" window and press the bottom button "Metadata Download".
Metadata Search ran like Swiss cuckoo clock for years.
I did not change any params. And one day this search hangs Calibre. No error message. I have to kill the freezed process.
Strangely, Book cover download was ok.

I update to 2.79 and the issue was still there.

Right now I found a way to bypass the issue.
Ctrl + D
and I click first left button "Download only Metadata".
It works fine. You can manually choose which field to update.


Best regards
Since both methods use the same settings, this suggests something is wrong with one of the configured (user vs builtin) COVER Plugins
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Old 02-25-2017, 07:57 PM   #6
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I'm having trouble, too. OSX, Calibre 2.80.0. Metadata source is Amazon.

Title: Deep Navigation
Author: Alastair Reynolds

In the details:
calibre, version 2.80.0
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'authors': [u'Alastair Reynolds'], u'title': u'Deep Navigation', u'timeout': 30}
Using plugins: Amazon.com
The log from individual plugins is below

****************************** Amazon.com ******************************
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', u'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36')]
Found 0 results
Downloading from Amazon.com took 0.521581888199
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 1169, in identify
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/amazon.py", line 1079, in parse_results_page
CaptchaError: Amazon returned a CAPTCHA page, probably because you downloaded too many books. Wait for some time and try again.

************************************************** ******************************
The identify phase took 0.65 seconds
The longest time (0.521582) 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


I did try a large # at once, earlier...
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Old 02-25-2017, 08:01 PM   #7
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Hmmm..... I changed my VPN, thinking Amazon would not see me as the person making too many requests, but that did not work.

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Old 02-25-2017, 09:30 PM   #8
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I see now that there's a thread about Amazon metadata...
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Old 02-27-2017, 05:40 AM   #9
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Since both methods use the same settings, this suggests something is wrong with one of the configured (user vs builtin) COVER Plugins
Good idea. Thank you.

I unactivate Metadata source extension, one by one. Close Cal. Open Cal. Test 5 times.

The issue is still there.

At the beginning of my tests, 5 plugins were activated and 5 were unactivated.
I did not add any cover plugin. So I guess they are built-in plugins.

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Old 02-28-2017, 02:33 AM   #10
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Same Metadata download problem again. This issue looked like it was solved, but here it is again for a bunch of books. I'm posting the data for only one of them:

(Windows 7 64 bit)

calibre, version 2.80.0
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'authors': [u'A. A. Attanasio'], u'timeout': 30, u'title': u'The Last Legends of Earth - A RADIX Tetrad Novel', u'identifiers': {u'mobi-asin': u'B001RCUNWK'}}
Using plugins: Google, Amazon.com
The log from individual plugins is below

****************************** Google ******************************
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', u'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36')]
Found 0 results
Downloading from Google took 2.1859998703

************************************************** ******************************

****************************** Amazon.com ******************************
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', u'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36')]
Found 0 results
Downloading from Amazon.com took 1.63199996948
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 1169, in identify
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\amazon.py ", line 1079, in parse_results_page
CaptchaError: Amazon returned a CAPTCHA page, probably because you downloaded too many books. Wait for some time and try again.

************************************************** ******************************
The identify phase took 2.32 seconds
The longest time (2.186000) was taken by: Google
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

EDITED LATER
I've added another book:

calibre, version 2.80.0
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'timeout': 30, u'title': u'The Blood Red Indian Summer: A Berger and Mitry Mystery', u'identifiers': {u'mobi-asin': u'B06WGNJCV7'}, u'authors': [u'David Handler']}
Using plugins: Google, Amazon.com
The log from individual plugins is below

****************************** Google ******************************
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', u'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36')]
Found 0 results
Downloading from Google took 1.52199983597

************************************************** ******************************

****************************** Amazon.com ******************************
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', u'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36')]
Found 0 results
Downloading from Amazon.com took 1.35500001907
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 1169, in identify
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\amazon.py ", line 1079, in parse_results_page
CaptchaError: Amazon returned a CAPTCHA page, probably because you downloaded too many books. Wait for some time and try again.

************************************************** ******************************
The identify phase took 1.69 seconds
The longest time (1.522000) was taken by: Google
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

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Old 02-28-2017, 04:16 AM   #11
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Delete the part after the colon in the title and the download will work.
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And this commit should take care of trying the title without the colon automatically: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...9b8d6829986fab
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Thanks for the "delete stuff after the colon in the title". That worked for me, but I would like to keep these subtitles.

Sounds like the "commit" will do this automatically, however I don't know how to apply these lines of programming to calibre. Or are you simply saying that the next build will incorporate these changes ?

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Dan, the post by Kovid is his way of saying it will be fixed in the next release.
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Dan, the post by Kovid is his way of saying it will be fixed in the next release.
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