Meta data download from Amazon does not include Comments

[broden]

Yesterday and today downloads of metadata from Amazon did not pickup the comments. Got covers, series, isbn and other data but no comments.
Checked the settings all seem good.
Last time Amazon changed their website and nothing was collected. This time it only seems to be comments.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

[kovidgoyal]

I just tried downloading metadata from amazon and I got comments in every case. Post the log for some books where it fails for you.

[broden]

Thanks for responding.

I downloaded a batch of 10 sets. Most copied the comments data to the comments field. However one did not. In the log file the comments exists the same as on the website, but they do not show up in Calibre. All the others carried over to Calibre. I have isolated the record as follows:

Title : The Ballad of Knuckles McGraw (Orca Young Readers)
Author(s) : Lois Peterson
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Languages : eng
Rating : 2.5
Published : 2010-04-02T00:00:00+00:00
Identifiers : amazon:1554692032, isbn:9781554692033
Comments :
After eight-year-old Kevin Mason's mother abandons him, he takes refuge in his fantasy of becoming Knuckles McGraw, a tough cowboy roaming the plains on his legendary horse, Burlington Northern. But instead of riding the range, Kevin is stuck in a foster home with a pierced and tattooed teenager named Ice and a mute girl named Breezy. While he waits to be claimed by the father he barely remembers or the mother who left him a good-bye note in his lunchbox, Kevin (aka Knuckles McGraw) tries to communicate with Breezy, learns to get along with his bunkhouse-mate Ice, and discovers that memories can be as deceptive as family secrets.
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Found image: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...4,203,200_.jpg

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The identify phase took 2.62 seconds
The longest time (2.606000) was taken by: Amazon.com
Merging results from different sources and finding earliest publication dates from the worldcat.org service
We have 1 merged results, merging took: 0.12 seconds

****************************** Barnes & Noble Covers ******************************
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1')]
Downloaded cover: 267x400
Took 0.154000043869 seconds
Downloading cover from: http://img2.imagesbn.com/p/9781554692033_p0_v1_s600.JPG

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****************************** Amazon.com Covers ******************************
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1')]
Downloaded cover: 125x187
Took 0.115999937057 seconds
Downloading cover from: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31hYs2qf1ZL.jpg

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****************************** Open Library Covers ******************************

I have also added the data in the .opf file for this book.

"<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<package xmlns="http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf" unique-identifier="uuid_id" version="2.0">
<metadata xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlnspf="http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf">
<dc:identifier opf:scheme="calibre" id="calibre_id">37804</dc:identifier>
<dc:identifier opf:scheme="uuid" id="uuid_id">5b7ed9f2-14bc-445c-8e09-fccd9f752d76</dc:identifier>
<dc:title>The Ballad of Knuckles McGraw</dc:title>
<dc:creator opf:file-as="Peterson, Lois" opf:role="aut">Lois Peterson</dc:creator>
<dc:contributor opf:file-as="calibre" opf:role="bkp">calibre (1.18.0) [http://calibre-ebook.com]</dc:contributor>
<dc:date>2010-04-01T00:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dcublisher>Orca Book Publishers</dcublisher>
<dc:identifier opf:scheme="AMAZON">1554692032</dc:identifier>
<dc:identifier opf:scheme="ISBN">9781554692033</dc:identifier>
<dc:identifier opf:scheme="BARNESNOBLE">w/ballad-of-knuckles-mcgraw-lois-peterson/1100379469</dc:identifier>
<dc:language>eng</dc:language>
<meta content="{&quot;Lois Peterson&quot;: &quot;&quot;}" name="calibre:author_link_map"/>
<meta content="10" name="calibre:rating"/>
<meta content="2014-01-05T11:36:22+00:00" name="calibre:timestamp"/>
<meta content="Ballad of Knuckles McGraw, The" name="calibre:title_sort"/>
</metadata>
<guide>
<reference href="cover.jpg" title="Cover" type="cover"/>
</guide>
</package>

Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0)')]
Failed to download valid cover
Took 0.236999988556 seconds
No cover for ISBN: '9781554692033' found


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****************************** Big Book Search Covers ******************************
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110814 Firefox/6.0')]
Downloaded cover: 125x187
Took 0.368000030518 seconds
Downloading 1 covers
Downloaded cover from: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31hYs2qf1ZL.jpg


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Again thanks for your interest and assistance.

Dennis

[broden]

I have checked some of the blank comments downloads from Jan 04. the log file in each case shows comments data but it does not get into calibre. I have manually copied the data over from the log file, but there does seem to be something not working correctly.

Thanks again, it really is an awesome program.

Dennis

[theducks]

Originally Posted by broden

I have checked some of the blank comments downloads from Jan 04. the log file in each case shows comments data but it does not get into calibre. I have manually copied the data over from the log file, but there does seem to be something not working correctly.

Thanks again, it really is an awesome program.

Dennis

Do recheck the Metadata configurationS (overall and source).
Something may have tuppied on your setting for the Amazon source

[broden]

Thanks,

You got it. Comments were turned off. Why I just do not know. There was no one else to screw with the setting but me. Me bad! Message to self " don't mess with settings".

Thanks again

[theducks]

Originally Posted by broden

Thanks,

You got it. Comments were turned off. Why I just do not know. There was no one else to screw with the setting but me. Me bad! Message to self " don't mess with settings".

Thanks again

Unexplained setting changes (bit-burps) seem to hit a very few users randomly.