Unable to download metadata without ISBN present

[Overquoted]

Windows 11 - Calibre version 9.8.0

When attempting to download metadata with just the title and author, it searches for approximately 1-3 seconds, then returns an error. If I input the ISBN, it returns results. Issue was not occurring as of a day or two ago. I am unsure when I updated to 9.8.0.

• Occurs with multiple metadata sources.
• Tried adding a source I had not been using, issue remained.
• Occurs with multiple different books.
• Tried with my normal 10-seconds for first match found and with 30 seconds.
• Both Calibre and plugins are fully up-to-date.
• Tried restarting PC.
• Confirmed Calibre is allowed through Windows Defender.
• Tried the removal of metadata-sources-cache.json and restarting calibre.
• Tried reinstalling a previous Calibre version.

Ultimately, if I remove the entire Calibre configuration folder, I can download metadata again. But I'd rather not do this, if possible, as I've been using Calibre for years and have quite a lot of customization of settings and plugins.


Error:

Running identify query with parameters:
{'title': 'Confessions of a Funeral Director', 'authors': ['Caleb Wilde'], 'identifiers': {}, 'timeout': 30}
Using plugins: Goodreads (1, 8, 5), Amazon.com (1, 3, 18)
The log from individual plugins is below

****************************** Goodreads (1, 8, 5) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from Goodreads took 0.23729872703552246
identify - start. title=Confessions of a Funeral Director, authors=['Caleb Wilde'], identifiers={}
Querying: https://www.goodreads.com/search?sea...e=books&search[query]=Confessions+of+a+Funeral+Director+Caleb+Wilde
No goodreads id via ISBN
Failed to get raw result for query: 'https://www.goodreads.com/search?search_type=books&search[query]=Confessions+of+a+Funeral+Director+Caleb+Wilde'

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

****************************** Amazon.com (1, 3, 18) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from Amazon.com took 1.9340929985046387
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/146.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Server: auto
Making google query: https://www.google.com/search?q=Conf...www.amazon.com
Failed to find any results on results page, with title: Confessions of Funeral Director Caleb Wilde site:www.amazon.com - Google Search
No search engine results for terms: Confessions of Funeral Director Caleb Wilde
Trying the bing search engine instead
Making bing query: https://www.bing.com/search?q=Confes...www.amazon.com
Bing returned no results
No search engine results for terms: Confessions of Funeral Director Caleb Wilde
No matches found with query: ['Confessions', 'of', 'Funeral', 'Director', 'Caleb', 'Wilde']

************************************************** ******************************
The identify phase took 2.00 seconds
The longest time (1.934093) was taken by: Amazon.com
Merging results from different sources
We have 0 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds

[kovidgoyal]

Customizr the amaon plugin to download from amazon.com not a search engine since all search engines block calibre now adays

[Overquoted]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Customizr the amaon plugin to download from amazon.com not a search engine since all search engines block calibre now adays

What about GoodReads? It happened with Barnes and Noble, too, but I don't typically use it.

Thank you for helping, sir.

[Overquoted]

I think I fixed it, thanks!!

[getthething]

Originally Posted by Overquoted

I think I fixed it, thanks!!

Were you able to fix the Goodreads plugin or did you just switch to the Amazon one?