Calibre not downloading book covers.

[Dullahir]

Hello everyone, so for some reason Calibre will no download from sources other than Goodreads or Kindle HD, despite having all of the sources that I wish to use checked. Please note that before, when using the Google Images selection a LOT of images were displayed. And no, I'm not IP banned, I did read on another thread that that was the culprit for someone else, besides, I have more than just Google selected, and I'm only getting results from Goodreads. Otherwise, if that's unchecked, I don't get anything. Removing the ID's in Metadata does nothing, like in regards to ISBN and such.

Please see screenshots to see what I am having to experience. Any suggestions? Thanks.

[kovidgoyal]

look at the log that will tell you what the issue is with each individual source.

[Hazily2513]

Hello,

For two months, downloading covers via Google Images hasn't been working for me.
I've tried clearing the DNS cache, enabling a VPN to a different country, and still the same.
Funnily enough, after copying the link from the logs, it works fine in the browser.

********************************* Google Images Covers *********************************
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36')]
Failed to download valid cover
Took 0.7313835620880127 seconds
Search URL: https://www.google.com/search?as_st=...,iar:t,ift:jpg
No images found for, title: 'Coming Home' and authors: ['Ewelina Nawara']

[kovidgoyal]

yes google has been blocking "bots" for a while now because they dont want people to farm their content for AI while they farm other peoples content for their AI

[BetterRed]

BR