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[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Rei Norshine

Thanks JSWolf for the info.
So, here is the link to the "Home" page of the book listing. https://iheartsapphfic.com/all-categories/ . Once on a specific book's page, you can see the tags that I was hoping to be able to scan and add to the metadata in Calibre. I was hoping to try it on this website as well: https://thelesbianreview.com/

Metadata download plugins are usually developed by the first person who wants them, they will also have an incentive to maintain them when the website changes… as they inevitably do.

BR

[Rei Norshine]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Metadata download plugins are usually developed by the first person who wants them, they will also have an incentive to maintain them when the website changes… as they inevitably do.

BR

That's what I figured. I was hoping to make one myself, but I have no experience with coding. I tried reading the "Writing your own plugins to extend calibre’s functionality" manual on the Calibre website, but it all goes over my head. I couldn't find a easy tutorial anywhere? If you know of any, it would be appreciated. Or, is it impossible to explain in an "easy" way? Thanks! Rei

[JimmXinu]

IMO, the best approach is to find an existing plugin that does something similar and look at the code for that. There are several metadata plugins that scrape websites.

[Rei Norshine]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

IMO, the best approach is to find an existing plugin that does something similar and look at the code for that. There are several metadata plugins that scrape websites.

Which plugin would you suggest trying first? The goodreads one? I assume I have to use Python to modify the plugin. I have no experience with that. How hard would it be for me to learn?
Thanks!
Rei

[JimmXinu]

I don't use any metadata plugins. I believe most of them scrape a site somewhere. I'll start with a newer one.

All Calibre plugins are written in python. Open the plugin zip to see the source.

How hard is python to learn? It's very subjective. I learned python working on plugins. But I already knew a half dozen other languages. And proper pythoners seem to hate my code.

[JimmXinu]

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[Comfy.n]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Biz's question and follow ups about paragraph splitting moved to new thread.

I was panicking a bit when I saw I suddenly had the most recent post--2 weeks ago.