11-10-2023, 03:08 AM | #1 |
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Failed to download metadata and cover for an existig ISBN
I want to add the book "The Wife and the Widow" with ISBN 9781528879552.
However calibre returns the following error message: "ERROR: Download failed: Failed to download metadata or cover for the selected book. Unknown (Failed metadata) (Failed cover)" Why's that? - And what can I do about it? Many thanks for pointers! |
11-10-2023, 08:27 AM | #2 |
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look at the log by clicking the view log button
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11-10-2023, 05:02 PM | #3 |
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Thanks Kovid.
Here the log info: Code:
#################### Log for Unknown #################### Running identify query with parameters: {'title': None, 'authors': None, 'identifiers': {'isbn': '9781528879552'}, 'timeout': 30} Using plugins: Goodreads (1, 7, 8), Google (1, 1, 1), Amazon.com (1, 3, 5) The log from individual plugins is below ****************************** Goodreads (1, 7, 8) ****************************** Found 0 results Downloading from Goodreads took 1.048785924911499 identify - start. title=None, authors=None, identifiers={'isbn': '9781528879552'} get_goodreads_id_from_identifiers - isbn=9781528879552 get_goodreads_id_using_api - identifiers=9781528879552 Querying using autocomplete API: https://www.goodreads.com/book/auto_...=9781528879552 JSON Result: b'[]' Result using autocomplete API: None Insufficient metadata to construct query ******************************************************************************** ****************************** Google (1, 1, 1) ****************************** Found 0 results Downloading from Google took 3.8446710109710693 Making query: https://books.google.com/books/feeds...ewability=none No results found, doing a web search instead Making query: https://www.google.com/search?q=9781528879552&tbm=bks Failed to find any results on results page, with title: 9781528879552 - Google Search ******************************************************************************** ****************************** Amazon.com (1, 3, 5) ****************************** Found 0 results Downloading from Amazon.com took 0.8946192264556885 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:86.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/86.0 Server: auto Making google query: https://www.google.com/search?q=%289...www.amazon.com Failed to find any results on results page, with title: (9781528879552 or 978-1528879552) site:www.amazon.com - Google Search No search engine results for terms: (9781528879552 OR 978-1528879552) Trying the bing search engine instead Making bing query: https://www.bing.com/search?q=%28978...www.amazon.com Failed to find any results on results page, with title: (9781528879552 or 978-1528879552) site:www.amazon.com - Search No search engine results for terms: (9781528879552 OR 978-1528879552) No matches found with query: ['(9781528879552', 'OR', '978-1528879552)'] ******************************************************************************** The identify phase took 4.03 seconds The longest time (3.844671) was taken by: Google Merging results from different sources We have 0 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds Failed to download metadata for Unknown ****************************** Goodreads Covers ****************************** Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.141 Safari/537.36 Edg/87.0.664.75')] Failed to download valid cover Took 0.9695470333099365 seconds No cached cover found, running identify identify - start. title=None, authors=None, identifiers={'isbn': '9781528879552'} get_goodreads_id_from_identifiers - isbn=9781528879552 get_goodreads_id_using_api - identifiers=9781528879552 Querying using autocomplete API: https://www.goodreads.com/book/auto_...=9781528879552 JSON Result: b'[]' Result using autocomplete API: None Insufficient metadata to construct query No cover found ******************************************************************************** ****************************** Google Images Covers ****************************** Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.87 Safari/537.36')] Failed to download valid cover Took 5.9604644775390625e-06 seconds ******************************************************************************** ****************************** Amazon.com Covers ****************************** Request extra headers: [('Accept', 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8'), ('Upgrade-insecure-requests', '1'), ('Referer', 'https://www.bing.com/search?q=%289781528879552+or+978-1528879552%29+site%3Awww.amazon.com'), ('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.146 Safari/537.36')] Downloaded cover: 348x522 Took 14.320723056793213 seconds No cached cover found, running identify User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.90 Safari/537.36 Server: auto Making google query: https://www.google.com/search?q=%289...www.amazon.com Failed to find any results on results page, with title: (9781528879552 or 978-1528879552) site:www.amazon.com - Google Search No search engine results for terms: (9781528879552 OR 978-1528879552) Trying the bing search engine instead Making bing query: https://www.bing.com/search?q=%28978...www.amazon.com Ignoring 'Amazon.com' as it has no cached page Skipping non-book result: Result(url='https://www.amazon.com/books-used-books-textbooks/b?node=283155', title='Amazon.com: Books', cached_url='https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=%289781528879552+or+978-1528879552%29+site%3Awww.amazon.com&d=5004500508028420&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=sJnZpcgz7vTjyL4B3PEbqVoa0naUF-Ct') Skipping non-book result: Result(url='https://www.amazon.com/b?node=17495918011', title='Amazon.com: Kindle Books', cached_url='https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=%289781528879552+or+978-1528879552%29+site%3Awww.amazon.com&d=4793553187700786&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=r5LJgRReKJuD2wPFGfikTxycavILXKFm') Skipping non-book result: Result(url='https://www.amazon.com/', title='Amazon.com. Spend less. Smile more.', cached_url='https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=%289781528879552+or+978-1528879552%29+site%3Awww.amazon.com&d=5013004549898064&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=28SLGHztWhDnptgZ4HJP0gcv0bfvCntD') Skipping non-book result: Result(url='https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html%3FnodeId%3DG6LDPN7YJHYKH2J6', title='Amazon Prime - Amazon Customer Service', cached_url='https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=%289781528879552+or+978-1528879552%29+site%3Awww.amazon.com&d=4910999075238841&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=SqRrrTjBzby5Q6QKtLFaArDaBQiscEGS') Skipping non-book result: Result(url='https://www.amazon.com/Kindle-eBooks/b?node=154606011', title='Kindle eBooks | Amazon Smile', cached_url='https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=%289781528879552+or+978-1528879552%29+site%3Awww.amazon.com&d=4962590223040877&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=N4MFCkBLrnLQuZj7cVUhV1myxyeS4kMq') Skipping non-book result: Result(url='https://www.amazon.com/amazonprime', title='Amazon.com: Amazon Prime', cached_url='https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=%289781528879552+or+978-1528879552%29+site%3Awww.amazon.com&d=4801593373434107&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=hPAk__p3LSeHgz8VT_KirJC6H3YSEOvB') Skipping non-book result: Result(url='https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/hz/bookshelf/prime', title='Prime members access free eBooks, audiobooks, …', cached_url='https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=%289781528879552+or+978-1528879552%29+site%3Awww.amazon.com&d=4537886672113239&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=hn2sIfIzh7QPl_UZnqN91P3MSJTPXPzo') Downloading details from: https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=%2...o7EGB8rlNzqC-f Downloading details from: https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=%2...9kvdc2z7gblr0N Downloading cover from: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/...7L._SY522_.jpg ******************************************************************************** ****************************** Open Library Covers ****************************** Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko')] Failed to download valid cover Took 0.9919159412384033 seconds No cover for ISBN: '9781528879552' found ******************************************************************************** ****************************** Big Book Search Covers ****************************** Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.87 Safari/537.36')] Failed to download valid cover Took 3.814697265625e-06 seconds ******************************************************************************** Can I add sources to calibre? And which sources are particularly good for these kind of ISBNs (Audiobooks)? |
11-10-2023, 07:01 PM | #4 |
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Each source requires it's own plugin. I'm not aware of any audiobook specific metadata download plugins.
Code:
identify - start. title=None, authors=None, identifiers={'isbn': '9781528879552'} BR |
11-10-2023, 07:21 PM | #5 |
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For what it's worth, I tried creating an empty book with the title, author and ISBN (either audio or ebook) and multiple sources supplied covers though those covers seemed to match the ebook edition with no audio (square) covers supplied.
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11-10-2023, 09:41 PM | #6 |
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If it fails with only an isbn then add title and author as well
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11-13-2023, 01:28 AM | #7 |
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Thanks for all the tips.
Trouble is all the coveres in metadata details which comes back are from the paper book (by Hachette), not from the audio book (by Wavesound). I guess this is just what it is: Audiobook metadata are always sooo hard to find... |
11-13-2023, 06:15 PM | #8 |
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For this book, when I added kobo:the-wife-and-the-widow to the Ids field, the Kobo Book plugin returned the audio book cover though the Kobo Metadata only returned the ebook cover.
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