[Metadata Source Plugin] Goodreads

[mia_corvere]

Hey! Thanks for your response!

Reading my original question is even making me confused....I was quite tired when I wrote it.

I read through the plugin thread. I didn't see anything that seemed to help, most of those posts are about people wanting fewer tags haha.

The book is here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36615592-ryan-s-bed

I'm not looking to sync my goodreads shelves to calibre, I dont use GR to manage books at all, I just want their metadata.

I want to sync the shelves to calibre.



As an example, I want to download 'suicide' as a tag.

These are my settings:










And this is what I get as a result





I am not sure if it an incorrect plugin setting or something to do with calibre itself. In hindsight I should have asked in the plugin forum but oh well.

I believe my problem may be that the more specific shelves like 'suicide' are user created and not a gr shelf and that this is why the plugin isn't receiving them.

Or maybe my mapping is wrong. I have essentially 0 experience with that sort of thing so that's certainly probable.

I hope this clears up what my goal is. If you're still confused, let me know and thanks again for your time and help.

[BetterRed]

Moderator Notice

I'm going to merge this into the [Metadata Source Plugin] Goodreads plugin thread.

Please post questions specific to an optional plugin to its thread in the Plugins sub-forum, there's a sticky index at the top of that sub-forum.

BR

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by mia_corvere

The book is here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36615592-ryan-s-bed

The plugin doesn't look at the "Top shelves" page. It only uses the genres shown on the books page. So, for this book, it will only see "Romance", "New Adult", "Young Adult", "Young Adult > High School" and "Contemporary". These are then filtered against the plugin's configuration. For me, and I think these are pretty much the defaults, this gives "Romance", "Young Adult" and "Contemporary".

I'm not very interested in going to the "Top shelves" page. That book has 24 pages. If you go to the first page, do you also go to the second? Where do you stop? If someone wants to write the code, I'll look at adding it, but, it definitely would need options to control what is retrieved.

[mia_corvere]

That answers my question, thank you so much.

I had imagined that I could limit the number of shelves to be downloaded to something like 30.



Then if I got the first 30 shelves for 100 books, pretty much all of the purple shelves would be shared and would be trivial to delete with calibre. I would be left with the yellow tags which are more specific.

There's no need for anyone to develop this functionality though. It would have been convenient but I'll be fine without it.

Thanks again for your help!

[MaienM]

Originally Posted by mia_corvere

I want to sync the shelves to calibre.

I wanted the same thing, and I ended up making a plugin to do this. It (currently) only looks at the first page, because I've found the number of people per shelf drops off so much after that that the tags don't make it through my thresholds anyway.

Maybe it'll be useful to you: Goodread More Tags

[dunhill]

You could guide me on this error, I do not know what the reason will be, I think it may be that the book is not in goodreaders or that it has some character both in the author's name and in the title. Or it could be something else. If someone could answer me, I would be very grateful.


calibre, version 3.47.0
ERROR: No matches found: <p> No book could be found that matched your search. Try making the search <b> less specific </b>. for example, use only the author's last name and a single word of the title. <p> To view the complete record, press «Show details».

Running identify query with parameters:
{u'identifiers': {}, u'authors': [u'Jos\xe9 Herrera Arcos'], u'title': u'Oscuras Realidades', u'timeout': 30}
Using plugins: Goodreads (1, 4, 0), Goodreads_Rating (0, 2, 6)
The log from individual plugins is below

****************************** Goodreads (1, 4, 0) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from Goodreads took 2.06221795082
identify - start. title=Oscuras Realidades, authors=[u'Jos\xe9 Herrera Arcos'], identifiers={}
Querying: https://www.goodreads.com/search?sea...e=books&search[query]=Oscuras+Realidades+Jos%C3%A9+Herrera+Arcos
no isbn
response: <Element html at 0x7f075e7f1310>

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

****************************** Goodreads_Rating (0, 2, 6) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from Goodreads_Rating took 2.27281498909
identify - start. title=Oscuras Realidades, authors=[u'Jos\xe9 Herrera Arcos'], identifiers={}
Querying: http://www.goodreads.com/search?sear...e=books&search[query]=Oscuras+Realidades+Jos%C3%A9+Herrera+Arcos
no isbn
response: <Element html at 0x7f075e851890>

************************************************** ******************************
The identify phase took 2.43 seconds
The longest time (2.272815) was taken by: Goodreads_Rating
Merging results from different sources
We have 0 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by dunhill

You could guide me on this error, I do not know what the reason will be, I think it may be that the book is not in goodreaders or that it has some character both in the author's name and in the title. Or it could be something else. If someone could answer me, I would be very grateful.


calibre, version 3.47.0
ERROR: No matches found: <p> No book could be found that matched your search. Try making the search <b> less specific </b>. for example, use only the author's last name and a single word of the title. <p> To view the complete record, press «Show details».

Running identify query with parameters:
{u'identifiers': {}, u'authors': [u'Jos\xe9 Herrera Arcos'], u'title': u'Oscuras Realidades', u'timeout': 30}
Using plugins: Goodreads (1, 4, 0), Goodreads_Rating (0, 2, 6)
The log from individual plugins is below

****************************** Goodreads (1, 4, 0) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from Goodreads took 2.06221795082
identify - start. title=Oscuras Realidades, authors=[u'Jos\xe9 Herrera Arcos'], identifiers={}
Querying: https://www.goodreads.com/search?sea...e=books&search[query]=Oscuras+Realidades+Jos%C3%A9+Herrera+Arcos
no isbn
response: <Element html at 0x7f075e7f1310>

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

****************************** Goodreads_Rating (0, 2, 6) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from Goodreads_Rating took 2.27281498909
identify - start. title=Oscuras Realidades, authors=[u'Jos\xe9 Herrera Arcos'], identifiers={}
Querying: http://www.goodreads.com/search?sear...e=books&search[query]=Oscuras+Realidades+Jos%C3%A9+Herrera+Arcos
no isbn
response: <Element html at 0x7f075e851890>

************************************************** ******************************
The identify phase took 2.43 seconds
The longest time (2.272815) was taken by: Goodreads_Rating
Merging results from different sources
We have 0 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds

Can you find the book on Goodreads? Searching on the title alone finds this, but the author isn't what you have. And I can't find anything by an author that looks like what you have.

[dunhill]

Apparently this author is not in goodreaders

[scottpack]

I ran into a few issues when attempting to import and use this plugin on Calibre 4.5 under Fedora 31 due to the Python 3 updates. Attached is a patch file that, in my initial testing, seems to work in a Python 3 environment.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by scottpack

I ran into a few issues when attempting to import and use this plugin on Calibre 4.5 under Fedora 31 due to the Python 3 updates. Attached is a patch file that, in my initial testing, seems to work in a Python 3 environment.

I can't really use that patch. It would make the plugin incompatible with the released non-Python 3 versions of calibre. And at the moment, they far out-number the Python 3 users. I am slowly going through the plugins I look after to update them. If you want to do this, you are welcome to. There are a couple of threads about this, so you can look at them to get an idea of how to keep the compatibility.

Otherwise, I'll probably do this soon. I have done enough that it loads without errors, but, it doesn't download the covers.

[davidfor]

It looks like I had done more than I thought. The only thing left was getting covers.

The attached beta should work with any recent of calibre and any Python 3 based version of calibre. I have tested it, but, as always needs more. If anyone sees any problems, please report them here.


I forgot to push the upload button on the attachments dialog.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by davidfor

It looks like I had done more than I thought. The only thing left was getting covers.

The attached beta should work with any recent of calibre and any Python 3 based version of calibre. I have tested it, but, as always needs more. If anyone sees any problems, please report them here.

Attachment, please.

[DictatorAlly]

Hello, is it possible to use our own API key?

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by DictatorAlly

Hello, is it possible to use our own API key?

This plugin doesn't use any API keys.

[DictatorAlly]

Ok, thank you. Has it been proposed before?