[Metadata Source Plugin] Comicvine

[eschwartz]

That is an SSL error when trying to connect to the internet -- I am guessing you are on a Mac since that problem typically shows up on Macs.

Apple's system OpenSSL is... problematic... I believe Kovid has said he intends at some point to get calibre on OSX to use an internal OpenSSL build to fix these problems.

[PeterT]

There also have been numerous issues on Windows platforms due to missing root certificates.

[MikeyTsi]

It's a Surface Pro 3. The last one that I had was making the calls fine, so I'm assuming I'm missing a dependency or something.

Is someone still using this plugin successfully after Comicvine got migrated under Gamespot's umbrella?

[eschwartz]

In that case you may have a missing root certificate.

You aren't missing a dependency -- calibre includes all its dependencies. Like any other Windows application.

[MikeyTsi]

I meant a dependency for the plugin or one for the site it's scraping.

[eschwartz]

Um, if a plugin has a dependency that isn't already installed with calibre, it is the responsibility of the plugin author to bundle the dependency.

tl;dr
Still no.

If you are on Windows, then it might be the root certificate. That could be caused by pending/not installed Windows updates.

[MikeyTsi]

I'm running current updates on Windows, it's set up to update automatically as well.

[MikeyTsi]

I updated Calibre, and now it's working. So maybe it WAS something with Calibre.

[kjtaylor13]

Hi All,

Does this plugin still work?

I'm getting errors when trying to download metadata

calibre, version 2.82.0
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'title': u'Booster Gold #002', u'timeout': 30, u'authors': None, u'identifiers': {}}
Using plugins: Comicvine (0, 10, 7)
The log from individual plugins is below

****************************** Comicvine (0, 10, 7) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from Comicvine took 4.6747238636
Searching for [u'booster', u'gold'] #2
Looking up volume: booster gold
Looking up volume: booster gold
Plugin Comicvine failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/identify.py", line 48, in run
File "calibre_plugins.comicvine.source", line 141, in identify
File "calibre_plugins.comicvine.utils", line 163, in find_title
File "calibre_plugins.comicvine.utils", line 48, in retry_function
File "calibre_plugins.comicvine.utils", line 98, in find_volumes
File "calibre_plugins.comicvine.pycomicvine_dist", line 499, in search
File "calibre_plugins.comicvine.pycomicvine_dist", line 900, in __init__
File "calibre_plugins.comicvine.pycomicvine_dist", line 380, in __init__
File "calibre_plugins.comicvine.pycomicvine_dist", line 367, in _request_object
File "calibre_plugins.comicvine.pycomicvine_dist", line 210, in _request
File "urllib2.py", line 154, in urlopen
File "urllib2.py", line 437, in open
File "urllib2.py", line 550, in http_response
File "urllib2.py", line 469, in error
File "urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
File "urllib2.py", line 656, in http_error_302
File "urllib2.py", line 437, in open
File "urllib2.py", line 550, in http_response
File "urllib2.py", line 469, in error
File "urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
File "urllib2.py", line 656, in http_error_302
File "urllib2.py", line 437, in open
File "urllib2.py", line 550, in http_response
File "urllib2.py", line 475, in error
File "urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
File "urllib2.py", line 558, in http_error_default
HTTPError: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized

************************************************** ******************************
The identify phase took 4.83 seconds
The longest time (4.674724) was taken by: Comicvine
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

Any suggestions appreciated

Thanks

Kevin

[theducks]

Unauthorized

Does CV require a user account (sign in)?

[kjtaylor13]

Originally Posted by theducks

Unauthorized

Does CV require a user account (sign in)?

Hi,

Yes CV needs an API key, but i've put this in the Plugin Configuration.

And still get the error.

Thanks

Kevin

[MikeyTsi]

Originally Posted by kjtaylor13

Hi,

Yes CV needs an API key, but i've put this in the Plugin Configuration.

And still get the error.

Thanks

Kevin

There's something wrong with the key you're providing, try pasting it in to a basic text editor application first and make sure you're not putting in a carriage return or some weird hidden character.

Once you get it working, keep in mind that this scraper is not the most advanced, you'll get a lot of false positives especially if you're working with comics that have multiple volumes, and it can have difficulty finding matches at all depending on how the title strings and such are formatted. I can give you a short primer on maximizing utility if that would help.

[flatloop]

I just found this thread. I'm glad to see some activity from within the same calendar year.

I'm sort of a renegade when it comes to running Calibre. I run in only in the "daemonize"-ed, mode and edit the library with the linux command line. For most titles, my meta-data comes in without issue.

Most of the comments here refer to the plugin and its operation within the GUI. Since I do not use the GUI, does this mean that the plugin will not be useful to my unconventional usage?

[MikeyTsi]

Originally Posted by flatloop

I just found this thread. I'm glad to see some activity from within the same calendar year.

I'm sort of a renegade when it comes to running Calibre. I run in only in the "daemonize"-ed, mode and edit the library with the linux command line. For most titles, my meta-data comes in without issue.

Most of the comments here refer to the plugin and its operation within the GUI. Since I do not use the GUI, does this mean that the plugin will not be useful to my unconventional usage?

I mean, the entire point of this plugin is that it makes calls to the Comicvine API, you could probably just make those calls directly instead of using this.

[MikeyTsi]

Not sure who else is watching, but it looks like the plugin broke again last night/this morning, not sure what it is this time:

calibre, version 2.66.0
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': None, u'timeout': 30, u'identifiers': {u'comicvine-volume': u'53919'}, u'title': u'All-New X-Men 011'}
Using plugins: Comicvine
The log from individual plugins is below

****************************** Comicvine ******************************
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', u'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36')]
Found 0 results
Downloading from Comicvine took 2.77600002289
Searching for [u'all-new', u'x-men'] #11
Looking up volume: 53919
Looking up volume: 53919
Plugin Comicvine failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\identify. py", line 46, in run
File "calibre_plugins.comicvine.source", line 141, in identify
File "calibre_plugins.comicvine.utils", line 163, in find_title
File "calibre_plugins.comicvine.utils", line 48, in retry_function
File "calibre_plugins.comicvine.utils", line 93, in find_volumes
File "calibre_plugins.comicvine.pycomicvine_dist", line 242, in __new__
File "calibre_plugins.comicvine.pycomicvine_dist", line 900, in __init__
File "calibre_plugins.comicvine.pycomicvine_dist", line 380, in __init__
File "calibre_plugins.comicvine.pycomicvine_dist", line 367, in _request_object
File "calibre_plugins.comicvine.pycomicvine_dist", line 210, in _request
File "json\__init__.py", line 338, in loads
File "json\decoder.py", line 366, in decode
File "json\decoder.py", line 384, in raw_decode
ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded

************************************************** ******************************
The identify phase took 2.90 seconds
The longest time (2.776000) was taken by: Comicvine
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'm not a coder, so I'm not sure what this means, maybe someone's still around that can illuminate?