Google Metadata not downloading?

[DA-990]

Hello all,

I'm not sure if it's just me or not, I am unable to pull down metadata information from the inbuilt Google plugin. I had to stop the download job mid process and when I started it up I get this error, even on books I downloaded data about from a few minutes prior:

calibre, version 3.20.0
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'Robert Weinberg', u'Daniel Gould'], u'timeout': 30, u'title': u'Foundations of Sport and Exercise Psychology 6th Edition With Web Study Guide', u'identifiers': {u'isbn': u'9781450469814', u'goodreads': u'23322296', u'mobi-asin': u'B00LPICJ6Y', u'amazon_uk': u'1450469817', u'google': u'7NqVBAAAQBAJ'}}
Using plugins: Google (1, 0, 0)
The log from individual plugins is below

****************************** Google (1, 0, 0) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from Google took 1.05700016022
Making query: https://books.google.com/books/feeds...&start-index=1
Failed to make identify query: u'https://books.google.com/books/feeds/volumes?q=isbn%3A9781450469814&max-results=20&min-viewability=none&start-index=1'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\google.py ", line 362, in identify
File "site-packages\mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 239, in open_novisit
File "site-packages\mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 310, in _mech_open
httperror_seek_wrapper: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

************************************************** ******************************
The identify phase took 1.20 seconds
The longest time (1.057000) 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

I'm not entirely sure how to proceed; does the 403 mean Google has banned me, or have I just really upset Calibre? I've tried reinstallation but the problem persists. As I said, I've tested it on books that was given metadata information from Google moments before there was a problem.

Other metadata sources are working fine.

Thanks in advance.

[theducks]

How many times (titles) did you hit Google in a short time? Excessive use gets blocked at many sites.

[DA-990]

Thank you for the reply! I ran about 1000 titles through it, then I had to abort as my computer seemed unstable at the time and ran it again. I did a test run eariler in the day with 200 titles which seemed to go through fine. The day prior I had run about 2000 titles through the process.

Would you happen to know if this is a permenant ban? I got a tad greedy with Project Guternburg and Feedbooks and now I'm wondering if I'm destinated to live a life with an incomplete genre tag-set.

[dheeraj]

try asking on google product forum, you may find there more reliable answer.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by DA-990

Thank you for the reply! I ran about 1000 titles through it, then I had to abort as my computer seemed unstable at the time and ran it again. I did a test run eariler in the day with 200 titles which seemed to go through fine. The day prior I had run about 2000 titles through the process.

Would you happen to know if this is a permenant ban? I got a tad greedy with Project Guternburg and Feedbooks and now I'm wondering if I'm destinated to live a life with an incomplete genre tag-set.

It is a periodic ban. SMALL batches (~20-30) per hour will probably never trip it

[DA-990]

Thank you. I have been unable to find information over the period of the ban, or any banning policy. I'm hoping it'll be 24 hours, and then I can take it slow and steady then.