[Metadata Source Plugin] Barnes & Noble

[MikeN68]

Plugin error

B&N v1.2.15

calibre, version 5.1.0
ERROR: Install plugin failed: A problem occurred while installing this plugin. This plugin will now be uninstalled. Please post the error message in details below into the forum thread for this plugin and restart calibre.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\dialogs\plugin_updater.py", line 731, in _install_clicked
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\ui.py", line 472, in add_plugin
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\ui.py", line 61, in load_plugin
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\zipplugin.py", line 200, in load
File "site-packages\polyglot\builtins.py", line 123, in reload
File "importlib\__init__.py", line 169, in reload
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 602, in _exec
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\zipplugin.py", line 184, in load_module
File "calibre_plugins.barnes_noble.__init__", line 11, in <module>
ImportError: cannot import name 'quote' from 'urllib' (C:\Program Files (x86)\Calibre2\\app\pylib.zip\urllib\__init__.pyc)

[chaley]

Originally Posted by gbm

I have ported the B&N mededata plugin to python 3

Version number is 1.2.16

bernie

Should I release this (put it on the first post)?

@MikeN68: you need to update the plugin to the version found on this post.

[gbm]

Originally Posted by chaley

Should I release this (put it on the first post)?

@MikeN68: you need to update the plugin to the version found on this post.

It works with version 4 and 5 of calibre. I would say release it.

bernie

[LostOnTheLine]

This plugin leaves a bad link in the IDs.
Simple fix

in the "__init__.py" file change

BROWSE_URL = 'http://www.barnesandnoble.com'

to

BROWSE_URL = 'http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w'

I don't think it will mess anything else up but no guarantees as I use the IDs almost solely for the links as my books already have their metadata & anything I'm changing I'm doing manually

[razorsoup]

Anyone else having problems with getting metadata from B&N? I'm getting the following results whenever I try.

****************************** Barnes & Noble (1, 2, 16) ****************************** 
Found 0 results 
Downloading from Barnes & Noble took 0.7885348796844482 
Querying: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/s/9780345379337?EAN=9780345379337
match location: 'https://www.barnesandnoble.com/'
B&N url: 'https://www.barnesandnoble.com/'
Error parsing Barnes & Noble id for url: 'https://www.barnesandnoble.com/'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "calibre_plugins.barnes_noble.worker", line 86, in parse_details
  File "calibre_plugins.barnes_noble.worker", line 160, in parse_barnes_noble_id
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'groups'

Aborting search for title
Could not find title/authors/Barnes & Noble id for 'https://www.barnesandnoble.com/'
Barnes & Noble: None Title: None Authors: None

Edit: in the "__init__.py" file changing

BASE_URL = 'http://search.barnesandnoble.com'

to

BASE_URL = 'http://www.barnesandnoble.com'

seems to fix the error.

[razorsoup]

Another bug: If title and author are blank, the plugin doesn't even try using the ISBN to lookup the book. If the title and author have any value at all, the plugin will successfully use the ISBN to lookup the book.
Here's the error I receive with title and author blank

****************************** Barnes & Noble (1, 2, 16) ****************************** 
Found 0 results 
Downloading from Barnes & Noble took 0.05497002601623535 
Plugin Barnes & Noble failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\identify.py", line 47, in run
  File "calibre_plugins.barnes_noble.__init__", line 137, in identify
  File "calibre\ebooks\unihandecode\__init__.py", line 51, in decode
TypeError: normalize() argument 2 must be str, not None 

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

I fixed it on my end by changing lines 137-138 of the __init__ file to

            if title:
                title = get_udc().decode(title)
            if authors:
                authors = [get_udc().decode(a) for a in authors]

I'm not sure if that's going to cause any additional errors but it seems to get around this one.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by razorsoup

Another bug: If title and author are blank, the plugin doesn't even try using the ISBN to lookup the book. If the title and author have any value at all, the plugin will successfully use the ISBN to lookup the book.

There is no one maintaining the plugin. If you have changes that fix problems, post the updated version for others to try. Then we can arrange to release the updated version if there are no problems.

[razorsoup]

Here's my updated version that fixes the two errors I found. Hopefully my changes don't introduce any other errors.

I'm not happy with what the plugin grabs as the ID from B&N but I haven't touched that because it's not a huge issue and changing that will introduce issues with any books that have the current ID type. Also, I'm not a programmer so I'm reluctant to change too much without knowing for certain what that will affect.

[kiwidude]

Changes in this release:

• New: Add translation support for config screen.
• New: Chinese, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Ukranian translations - thanks to everyone!!!
• Update: Remove TOC append option from configuration as not supported by plugin any more.
• Fix: Updated for latest website pages.
• Fix: Support for calibre 6/Qt6.

This plugin hadn't been "officially" updated in a while and was in a bit of a broken state, hopefully this should get it running properly again. Or at least it did for the books I tested it with...

[tweebee]

Thank you so much!

Originally Posted by kiwidude

Changes in this release:

• New: Add translation support for config screen.
• New: Chinese, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Ukranian translations - thanks to everyone!!!
• Update: Remove TOC append option from configuration as not supported by plugin any more.
• Fix: Updated for latest website pages.
• Fix: Support for calibre 6/Qt6.

This plugin hadn't been "officially" updated in a while and was in a bit of a broken state, hopefully this should get it running properly again. Or at least it did for the books I tested it with...

[kiwidude]

Release Notes:
https://github.com/kiwidude68/calibr...s_noble-v1.4.0

[aragonit]

The Barnes & Noble results are always always wrong, unless the books are exclusive to B&N.

I tried adjusting the number of searches, but got following error.

calibre, version 6.14.0
FEHLER: Unbehandelter Ausnahmefehler: <b>AttributeError</b>:'ConfigWidget' object has no attribute 'toc_checkbox'

calibre 6.14  embedded-python: True
Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '10', '10.0.19045')
Python 3.10.1
Windows: ('10', '10.0.19045', 'SP0', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: de
Successfully initialized third party plugins: Gather KFX-ZIP (from KFX Input) (1, 51, 0) && DeDRM (7, 1, 0) && Package KFX (from KFX Input) (1, 51, 0) && Amazon.com Multiple Countries (1, 0, 0) && Barnes & Noble (1, 4, 0) && Check Books (0, 1, 5) && Extract ISBN (1, 6, 0) && FictionDB (1, 3, 0) && Find Duplicates (1, 10, 7) && Goodreads (1, 7, 3) && Goodreads Sync (1, 16, 2) && KFX metadata reader (from KFX Input) (1, 51, 0) && KFX Input (1, 51, 0) && Kindle hi-res covers (0, 5, 0) && LibraryThing Match (0, 2, 1) && Manage Series (1, 5, 0) && Obok DeDRM (7, 1, 0) && Quality Check (1, 13, 3) && QuarantineAndScrub (3, 6, 120) && Search The Internet (1, 10, 0) && WordDumb (3, 29, 0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "calibre\gui2\dialogs\plugin_updater.py", line 777, in _configure_clicked
  File "calibre\customize\__init__.py", line 177, in do_user_config
  File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\base.py", line 270, in save_settings
  File "calibre_plugins.barnes_noble.config", line 74, in commit
AttributeError: 'ConfigWidget' object has no attribute 'toc_checkbox'

[kiwidude]

Hi aragonit, thanks for posting that issue. Unfortunately my computer is still a few more weeks away from arriving before I can start looking at potentially doing plugin work again, but I will add this to the todo list.

[BeckyEbook]

@aragonit Just remove the penultimate line from config.py and the plugin will work.

Exactly this:

new_prefs[KEY_APPEND_TOC] = self.toc_checkbox.checkState() == Qt.Checked

[ownedbycats]

Unexpected behaviour: Sometimes if I want to selectively pick identifiers, I copy the link from the download window and then use the paste button:





For most identifiers, this gives me the ID. For B&N, it gives me a url:.

If needed for replication, here's the book, searched by author & title. When I added it in the regular way I got barnesnoble:w/death-by-chocolate-sally-berneathy/1101711347.