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Hi,
I keep getting the following error message when trying to refine the metadata on my books, which are not uncommon books at all. They are all listed on Amazon and bn.com. I have tried deleting all the metadata and just using the ISBN but nothing seems to help. The title of the book is perfect, the author matches completely, but still I fail book after book. I'm running macOS Sierra version 10.12.3 and have the latest version of Calibre available. There are no issues with my wifi and this is just a recent problem since the new update. Can anyone help me with this? This is what the error message tells me to copy: calibre, version 2.80.0 ERROR: Download failed: Failed to download metadata. Click Show Details to see details Juan |
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And what is in the details?
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![]() DETAILS are very important. How many sites do you allow in your metadata searches? Do you have any additional (user) metadata source plugins installed? {authors} {title} {identifiers} of the book in Calibre All these (and more) affect a metadata fetch |
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I met similar issue with Cal V2.73 and win 7 x64.
I used to open "Metadata Modify" window and press the bottom button "Metadata Download". Metadata Search ran like Swiss cuckoo clock for years. I did not change any params. And one day this search hangs Calibre. No error message. I have to kill the freezed process. Strangely, Book cover download was ok. I update to 2.79 and the issue was still there. Right now I found a way to bypass the issue. Ctrl + D and I click first left button "Download only Metadata". It works fine. You can manually choose which field to update. Best regards |
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I'm having trouble, too. OSX, Calibre 2.80.0. Metadata source is Amazon.
Title: Deep Navigation Author: Alastair Reynolds In the details: calibre, version 2.80.0 ERROR: No matches found: <p>Failed to find any books that match your search. Try making the search <b>less specific</b>. For example, use only the author's last name and a single distinctive word from the title.<p>To see the full log, click Show Details. Running identify query with parameters: {u'identifiers': {}, u'authors': [u'Alastair Reynolds'], u'title': u'Deep Navigation', u'timeout': 30} Using plugins: Amazon.com The log from individual plugins is below ****************************** Amazon.com ****************************** Request extra headers: [('User-agent', u'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36')] Found 0 results Downloading from Amazon.com took 0.521581888199 Plugin Amazon.com failed Traceback (most recent call last): File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/identify.py", line 48, in run File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/amazon.py", line 1169, in identify File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/amazon.py", line 1079, in parse_results_page CaptchaError: Amazon returned a CAPTCHA page, probably because you downloaded too many books. Wait for some time and try again. ************************************************** ****************************** The identify phase took 0.65 seconds The longest time (0.521582) was taken by: Amazon.com Merging results from different sources and finding earliest publication dates from the worldcat.org service We have 0 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds I did try a large # at once, earlier... |
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Hmmm..... I changed my VPN, thinking Amazon would not see me as the person making too many requests, but that did not work.
Last edited by tlc; 02-25-2017 at 08:07 PM. |
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I see now that there's a thread about Amazon metadata...
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I unactivate Metadata source extension, one by one. Close Cal. Open Cal. Test 5 times. The issue is still there. At the beginning of my tests, 5 plugins were activated and 5 were unactivated. I did not add any cover plugin. So I guess they are built-in plugins. Best regards |
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Same Metadata download problem again. This issue looked like it was solved, but here it is again for a bunch of books. I'm posting the data for only one of them:
(Windows 7 64 bit) calibre, version 2.80.0 ERROR: No matches found: <p>Failed to find any books that match your search. Try making the search <b>less specific</b>. For example, use only the author's last name and a single distinctive word from the title.<p>To see the full log, click Show Details. Running identify query with parameters: {u'authors': [u'A. A. Attanasio'], u'timeout': 30, u'title': u'The Last Legends of Earth - A RADIX Tetrad Novel', u'identifiers': {u'mobi-asin': u'B001RCUNWK'}} Using plugins: Google, Amazon.com The log from individual plugins is below ****************************** Google ****************************** Request extra headers: [('User-agent', u'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36')] Found 0 results Downloading from Google took 2.1859998703 ************************************************** ****************************** ****************************** Amazon.com ****************************** Request extra headers: [('User-agent', u'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36')] Found 0 results Downloading from Amazon.com took 1.63199996948 Plugin Amazon.com failed Traceback (most recent call last): File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\identify. py", line 48, in run File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\amazon.py ", line 1169, in identify File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\amazon.py ", line 1079, in parse_results_page CaptchaError: Amazon returned a CAPTCHA page, probably because you downloaded too many books. Wait for some time and try again. ************************************************** ****************************** The identify phase took 2.32 seconds The longest time (2.186000) was taken by: Google Merging results from different sources and finding earliest publication dates from the worldcat.org service We have 0 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds EDITED LATER I've added another book: calibre, version 2.80.0 ERROR: No matches found: <p>Failed to find any books that match your search. Try making the search <b>less specific</b>. For example, use only the author's last name and a single distinctive word from the title.<p>To see the full log, click Show Details. Running identify query with parameters: {u'timeout': 30, u'title': u'The Blood Red Indian Summer: A Berger and Mitry Mystery', u'identifiers': {u'mobi-asin': u'B06WGNJCV7'}, u'authors': [u'David Handler']} Using plugins: Google, Amazon.com The log from individual plugins is below ****************************** Google ****************************** Request extra headers: [('User-agent', u'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36')] Found 0 results Downloading from Google took 1.52199983597 ************************************************** ****************************** ****************************** Amazon.com ****************************** Request extra headers: [('User-agent', u'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36')] Found 0 results Downloading from Amazon.com took 1.35500001907 Plugin Amazon.com failed Traceback (most recent call last): File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\identify. py", line 48, in run File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\amazon.py ", line 1169, in identify File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\amazon.py ", line 1079, in parse_results_page CaptchaError: Amazon returned a CAPTCHA page, probably because you downloaded too many books. Wait for some time and try again. ************************************************** ****************************** The identify phase took 1.69 seconds The longest time (1.522000) was taken by: Google Merging results from different sources and finding earliest publication dates from the worldcat.org service We have 0 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds Last edited by drdancm; 02-28-2017 at 02:40 AM. |
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Delete the part after the colon in the title and the download will work.
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And this commit should take care of trying the title without the colon automatically: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...9b8d6829986fab
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Thanks for the "delete stuff after the colon in the title". That worked for me, but I would like to keep these subtitles.
Sounds like the "commit" will do this automatically, however I don't know how to apply these lines of programming to calibre. Or are you simply saying that the next build will incorporate these changes ? Thanks, Dan |
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Dan, the post by Kovid is his way of saying it will be fixed in the next release.
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