[GUI Plugin] Search the Internet

[Said124]

Hello,

I've been using Search the internet for years and it worked very well.
I used it for this site: https://www.babelio.com/recherche.php
I used to search for the title of a book or an author:
http://www.babelio.com/resrecherche.php?Recherche={title}
http://www.babelio.com/resrecherche.php?Recherche={author}+{title}&page=1 &item_search=books&tri=author
Unfortunately, the Babelio site has made some changes and Search th internet no longer works with Babelio. It no longer finds any results.

Do you have a clue or a solution?
Thank you for your help.

[Hunters]

Hi,

Don't know if this has been mentioned before, when searching for a book with multiple authors it only looks for the first one. Think it has something to do with & in there.

Also if the title has a & it also only looks for anything before that.

Can anyone see if it happens to them also ?

Thanks in advance.

[kiwidude]

Originally Posted by Hunters

Hi,

Don't know if this has been mentioned before, when searching for a book with multiple authors it only looks for the first one. Think it has something to do with & in there.

Also if the title has a & it also only looks for anything before that.

Can anyone see if it happens to them also ?

Thanks in advance.

Yeah those are known about (or at least the multiple author one is), I just so rarely hit that scenario I haven't been bothered to do something about it . It is "supposed" to only use the first author in that circumstance but likely something has changed over the years with calibre (or perhaps it was always broken).

I will take a look...

EDIT: Ok I can see the problem. A davidfor change in 1.8.0 several years ago - where he changed it to support templates, unfortunately completely missing the point of all the sanitisation leading up to that line of code. So it is passing through the original book metadata, not the "safe to use in a URL query" version of the title and authors. Back to the drawing board a bit on that one.

[kiwidude]

Release Notes
https://github.com/kiwidude68/calibr...ternet-v1.10.2

I've tried a number of different links and they seem to be working for single or multiple authors, ampersands are being stripped from data now. There is quite possibly some edge case which doesn't work that you can let me know about on here but it looks to be behaving better than previous to me.

[Hunters]

Hi,

Just tried a few books and all good. Will let you know if I find any edge case ones.

[Said124]

Originally Posted by Hunters

Hi,

Just tried a few books and all good. Will let you know if I find any edge case ones.

hello kiwi
I don't know if you saw my message just before Hunter's, so I'll take the liberty of relaunching my pb.
Thanks for your reply (positive or negative).

[kiwidude]

Originally Posted by Said124

hello kiwi
I don't know if you saw my message just before Hunter's, so I'll take the liberty of relaunching my pb.
Thanks for your reply (positive or negative).

Hi Said,

The problem you have with that website from a very quick look is it now requires an HTTP POST rather than a GET query. However in playing with this it has exposed a bit of a problem with my recent release that I'm going to have to look into, so that's good/bad news I suppose...

[kiwidude]

Release Notes
https://github.com/kiwidude68/calibr...ternet-v1.10.3

[kiwidude]

Originally Posted by Said124

Hello,

I've been using Search the internet for years and it worked very well.
I used it for this site: https://www.babelio.com/recherche.php
I used to search for the title of a book or an author:
http://www.babelio.com/resrecherche.php?Recherche={title}
http://www.babelio.com/resrecherche.php?Recherche={author}+{title}&page=1 &item_search=books&tri=author
Unfortunately, the Babelio site has made some changes and Search th internet no longer works with Babelio. It no longer finds any results.

Do you have a clue or a solution?
Thank you for your help.

Upgrade to the latest version I put up now.
Make sure you have the Method column on the far right set to POST if you have the shortcuts for them already.

Then these two urls will work for you for an author or a title search respectively:
https://www.babelio.com/recherche.php?Recherche={author}
https://www.babelio.com/recherche.php?Recherche={title}

EDIT: This requires v1.10.4 or later to work corretly, and also requires that you set the encoding column to latin-1

[Said124]

Hi Kiwi,

I've tested it on about ten queries, I'm really grateful to you, it works!

Thanks for your speed and efficiency.
Have a nice week!

[Said124]

Hello Kiwi,
It's me again

I'd tested 10 books and authors but hadn't paid attention to the fact that there were no accents or special characters. (Here in France, we use these characters everywhere).

When using the plugin with books and authors containing accents or special characters, the plugin malfunctions.

example, with this author and title: Nesbø, Jo - Éclipse totale

In this example, the Babelio site found the author but not the title.
In some cases, the author is not found either.

Thanks again for your help. Have a nice day !

[kiwidude]

Release Notes
https://github.com/kiwidude68/calibr...ternet-v1.10.4

Encodings are something I have never spent the time properly learning, and certainly not in Python. I did attempt to test with the rpevious version but the special character I chose to test with was apparently not special enough.

This version does now work with those extra funky titles and author characters. The trick however is that you must also set the encoding to 'latin-1' on those Babelio rows.

[Said124]

Hello Kiwi,

you are very good and very responsive. I've redone my tests with different special characters in the title or author, it works perfectly (I already had the Latin-1 option activated).

Thanks once again (I hope it's the last time ;-)

[Wiggo]

If FireFox isn't already open and doing a search via this plugin FireFox will only open in a kind of safemode.



This doesn't happen with the standard Calibre searches.

P.S.: FF is a portable version

[Comfy.n]

Originally Posted by Wiggo

If FireFox isn't already open and doing a search via this plugin FireFox will only open in a kind of safemode.

Attachment 204803

This doesn't happen with the standard Calibre searches.

P.S.: FF is a portable version

Could be something related to your default browser not being fully recognized by Windows... I have a portable Waterfox version as default, and the plugin searches open normally.

See the Kolbicz hacks here:

http://kolbi.cz/blog/2017/11/10/setd...16-build-1607/

https://kolbi.cz/blog/2019/01/27/reg...t-the-default/