Amazon metadata import failure

[Uncle Robin]

I bought the book shown in the attached screenshot today, but after de-drming and converting to epub, the download metadata filed, as detailed in the spoiler text:

Spoiler:

calibre, version 5.39.1
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': 'The Elusive Widow', 'authors': ['Peartree, Cecilia'], 'identifiers': {'isbn': '9798430783174'}, 'timeout': 30}
Using plugins: Kobo Books (1, 8, 4), Google (1, 0, 3), Amazon.com (1, 2, 24)
The log from individual plugins is below

****************************** Kobo Books (1, 8, 4) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from Kobo Books took 1.974001169204712
identify - title: "The Elusive Widow" authors= "['Peartree, Cecilia']"
Querying: https://www.kobo.com/search?Query=97...clanguages=all
No matches found with identifiers, retrying using only title and authors. Query: 'https://www.kobo.com/search?Query=9798430783174&fcmedia=Book&fclanguage s=all'
identify - title: "The Elusive Widow" authors= "['Peartree, Cecilia']"
create_query - title: "The Elusive Widow"
create_query - after decode title: "The Elusive Widow"
create_query - title_tokens: "['The', 'Elusive', 'Widow']"
Querying: https://www.kobo.com/search?Query=Th...clanguages=all
failed using three divs
Rejecting as not close enough match: The Spy Who Came Out of the Bushes
failed using three divs
Rejecting as not close enough match: The Coronation Quest
failed using three divs
Rejecting as not close enough match: Secrets of the Ice Palace
failed using three divs
Rejecting as not close enough match: The Unexpected Suspect
failed using three divs
Rejecting as not close enough match: The Identity Illusion
failed using three divs
Rejecting as not close enough match: The Lion and Unicorn Quest
failed using three divs
Rejecting as not close enough match: The Four Seasons Quest
failed using three divs
Rejecting as not close enough match: Death at the Happiness Club
failed using three divs
Rejecting as not close enough match: The Queen of Scots Mystery
failed using three divs
Rejecting as not close enough match: The Christmas Catastrophe
failed using three divs
Rejecting as not close enough match: The Christmas Puzzle
failed using three divs
Rejecting as not close enough match: The Case of the Late Capybara
No matches found with query: 'https://www.kobo.com/search?Query=The+Elusive+Widow+Cecilia+Peartree&fc media=Book&fclanguages=all'

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****************************** Google (1, 0, 3) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from Google took 3.219310760498047
Making query: https://books.google.com/books/feeds...ewability=none
No results found, retrying with capitalized ISBN
Making query: https://books.google.com/books/feeds...ewability=none
No results found, retrying without identifiers
Making query: https://books.google.com/books/feeds...ewability=none

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****************************** Amazon.com (1, 2, 24) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from Amazon.com took 4.426576852798462
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.87 Safari/537.36
Server: auto
Making google query: https://www.google.com/search?q=%289...www.amazon.com
Failed to find any results on results page, with title: (9798430783174 or 979-8430783174) site:www.amazon.com - Google Search
No search engine results for terms: (9798430783174 OR 979-8430783174)
Trying the bing search engine instead
Making bing query: https://www.bing.com/search?q=%28979...www.amazon.com
Failed to find any results on results page, with title: (9798430783174 or 979-8430783174) site:www.amazon.com - Search
No search engine results for terms: (9798430783174 OR 979-8430783174)
No matches found with identifiers, retrying using only title and authors. Query: ['(9798430783174', 'OR', '979-8430783174)']
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.87 Safari/537.36
Server: auto
Making google query: https://www.google.com/search?q=Elus...www.amazon.com
Skipping non-book result: Result(url='https://www.amazon.com/Cecilia-Peartree/e/B005826ULI%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share', title='Cecilia Peartree: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks ...https://www.amazon.com › Cecilia-Peartree', cached_url='https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:axtASD114WAJ:https://www.amazon.com/Cecilia-Peart...&ct=clnk&gl=nz')
No search engine results for terms: Elusive Widow Cecilia Peartree
Trying the bing search engine instead
Making bing query: https://www.bing.com/search?q=Elusiv...www.amazon.com
Failed to find any results on results page, with title: Elusive Widow Cecilia Peartree site:www.amazon.com - Search
No search engine results for terms: Elusive Widow Cecilia Peartree
No matches found with query: ['Elusive', 'Widow', 'Cecilia', 'Peartree']

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The identify phase took 4.46 seconds
The longest time (4.426577) was taken by: Amazon.com
Merging results from different sources
We have 0 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds

The only relevant result is Amazon, as it's Amazon-only. I did try the same search on the de-drm'd azw3, and also tried adding (and then substituting) the ISBN of the paperback edition. Same result. What am I doing wrong?

[kovidgoyal]

That's because there is no such book in the search engine search results. See for instance: https://www.google.com/search?q=Elus...www.amazon.com

[Uncle Robin]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

That's because there is no such book in the search engine search results. See for instance: https://www.google.com/search?q=Elus...www.amazon.com

Thanks for the prompt reply. When I click on that link, I see the book's cover included in the image result. Would forcing it to search only by identifiers work, since the book clearly exists at Amazon?

[kovidgoyal]

No, the identifiers dont show matches either, in your log the search is first done using isbn

[Uncle Robin]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

No, the identifiers dont show matches either, in your log the search is first done using isbn

Odd. I wonder why the isbn search turned up no matches, when I got the ISBN from Amazon? It's not a big problem, it just means I have to enter the metadata manually. Dozens of extra keystrokes, woe is me!

[DNSB]

Have you tried using the mobi-asin identifier (mobi-asin: B09VCHKT5C) or amazon identifier (amazon: B09VCHKT5C) for instance? Copy the asin and then click on the Ids icon to bring up a list of possible prefixes. I've generally found that using the ISBN (10 or 13) is not all that helpful when searching metadata from Amazon.

[Uncle Robin]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Have you tried using the mobi-asin identifier (mobi-asin: B09VCHKT5C) or amazon identifier (amazon: B09VCHKT5C) for instance?

The listed identifier in the epub was the ASIN, and only the ASIN. The listed identifier for the azw3 was the mobi-asin, and only the mobi-asin. It was after those failed that I tried adding the ISBN, meaning the search was done with two identifiers, asin, and isbn