Calibre NOT returning Goodreads Metadata very often.

[Chris_Snow]

Greetings,

For the last couple of weeks Calibre has not been getting the metadata for Goodreads for the majority of books (it gets 1 for evey 10 it fails (could be more)). I end up having to manually enter the Goodreads ID (painful).

It has been working great. Has something changed with the plugin? I'm using Calibre 3.21 on Win 10.

If I drop only the title name into the search bar on Goodreads the title I am looking for generally always pops up, but Calibre can't seem to find it. I haven't changed the way I am doing anything.

Here is the error message I usually get. I notice it states "Plugin Goodreads failed". Looking forward to some answers. Thanks.

calibre, version 3.21.0
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'B077Y6FQWS'}, u'timeout': 30, u'title': u'Wetworld (Alien Rebellion Book 1)', u'authors': [u'John Triptych']} 
Using plugins: Goodreads (1, 1, 13) 
The log from individual plugins is below 

****************************** Goodreads (1, 1, 13) ****************************** 
Found 0 results 
Downloading from Goodreads took 2.00699996948 
Querying: http://www.goodreads.com/search?search_type=books&search[query]=Wetworld+John+Triptych
no isbn
response: <Element html at 0x1fcb202bae8>
Plugin Goodreads failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\identify.py", line 48, in run
  File "calibre_plugins.goodreads.__init__", line 158, in identify
  File "calibre_plugins.goodreads.__init__", line 218, in _parse_search_results
IndexError: list index out of range 

******************************************************************************** 
The identify phase took 2.20 seconds 
The longest time (2.007000) was taken by: Goodreads 
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

[kovidgoyal]

Look in the thread for that plugin in the plugins sub-forum.

[Chris_Snow]

Thanks kovid,

I have found the correct page. (I searched for this before posting, but never struck it - typical! )

I will move my questions to there.

[davidfor]

@Chris_Snow: There was a recent change to the Goodreads site. I have fixed this and uploaded a beta that you can install from the thread Kovid is refering to. But, I'll arrange for the official release tonight or tomorrow.

[Chris_Snow]

Originally Posted by davidfor

@Chris_Snow: There was a recent change to the Goodreads site. I have fixed this and uploaded a beta that you can install from the thread Kovid is refering to. But, I'll arrange for the official release tonight or tomorrow.

Thanks. I commented to the other thread.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Chris_Snow

Thanks. I commented to the other thread.

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