[Metadata Source Plugin] Kobo Metadata

NotSimone · 09-03-2023, 09:09 AM

Grabs metadata from the Kobo store

Features

Can grab title, author, synopsis, publisher, published date, series, and tags
Can fetch high res cover art
Blacklist tags / terms in the title
Select from different countries

Note that Kobo seems to do a pretty bad job of tagging series properly - not much I can do about that

Troubleshooting

If the plugin is having trouble picking up the right book, you can try either:

Opening the book details and using the "Edit Metadata Individually" button while turning the "Number of matches to fetch" setting up.
Adding the isbn to the "Ids" field
Set the country code in the settings

If you are getting "failed to find any books that match your search" and the log is full of "KoboMetadata::get_webpage: Could not defeat cloudflare protection - trying again", then unfortunately we couldn't beat the cloudflare protection this time. Try again later

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Source: https://github.com/NotSimone/Kobo-Metadata

Feel free to make a PR if you're into that

Version History

Find the version history here

JSWolf · 09-03-2023, 10:11 AM

davidfor's original plugin is working. How is your different?

What would make your plugin different is to be able to set the country.

NotSimone · 09-03-2023, 11:59 AM

The other party trick it has is to blacklist certain tags or words in the title - useful when there are different media formats of the same series floating around. But otherwise, the existing plugin was a bit janky from all the different people piling on and adding their own fixes every time it stopped working - seemed like a decent opportunity to start clean and use some of the more modern python features

DNSB · 09-03-2023, 12:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JSWolf

davidfor's original plugin is working. How is your different?

What would make your plugin different is to be able to set the country.

The behaviour is also different for cover images. The Kobo Books plugin will fit the cover image to the maximum allowed by calibre so if calibre is set to allow a 2400x3600 maximum cover image size and the downloaded image was 1650x2200, the image returned will be 2400x3200. The Kobo Metadata plugin would give the original 1650x2200 image. See The maximum width and height for covers saved in the calibre library tweak.

NotSimone · 09-04-2023, 06:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DNSB

The behaviour is also different for cover images. The Kobo Books plugin will fit the cover image to the maximum allowed by calibre so if calibre is set to allow a 2400x3600 maximum cover image size and the downloaded image was 1650x2200, the image returned will be 2400x3200. The Kobo Metadata plugin would give the original 1650x2200 image. See The maximum width and height for covers saved in the calibre library tweak.

Aha I missed this one - easy enough to add. Strangely enough Kobo seems to only look at the width and not the height before matching aspect ratio even though it takes height as part of the url.

JSWolf · 09-04-2023, 05:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NotSimone

Aha I missed this one - easy enough to add. Strangely enough Kobo seems to only look at the width and not the height before matching aspect ratio even though it takes height as part of the url.

If this is not a beta version, the attachment in the first post needs to be replaced with this one and this attachment removed.

Also, the first post should be reformatted so calibre picks it up and adds it to the list.

JSWolf · 09-04-2023, 06:10 PM

I've tried both versions and neither version works for me. I get no covers downloaded. I've tried both USA and UK.

Here is the debug log for the latest version with calibre 6.25. It looks like maybe something has changed at Kobo.

Code:

Starting cover download for: Fairy Tale 
Query: Fairy Tale ['Stephen King'] {} 

****************************** Barnes & Noble 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')] 
Downloaded cover: 460x700 
Took 3.9463155269622803 seconds 
No cached cover found, running identify
Querying: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s?store=book&keyword=Fairy+Tale+Stephen+King
Parsing search results
Considering search result: Fairy Tale by Stephen King
Rejecting as not close enough match: Summary of Fairy Tale: by by Alexander Cooper
Rejecting as not close enough match: Cuento de hadas: Una novela / by Stephen King
Considering search result: Fairy Tale by Stephen King
Considering search result: Fairy Tale by Stephen King & Bernhard Kleinschmidt (Translator)
B&N url: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fairy-tale-stephen-king/1140917915?ean=9781668002179
Downloading cover from: http://prodimage.images-bn.com/lf?source=url[file:images/Images/pimages/2179/9781668002179_p0.jpg]&sink 

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

****************************** Kindle hi-res covers 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 5.095068454742432 seconds 
ASIN not present in metadata
Goodreads id not present in metadata
ISBN not present in metadata
Searching Goodreads for book: https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Fairy+Tale+Stephen+King
Fetching book details: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62791805-fairy-tale-hardcover-by-stephen-king-lord-of-the-flies-by-william-gol?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=dPq5yawbc6&rank=1
Cover URLs: [] 

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

****************************** Kobo Books Covers ****************************** 
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.0.3 Safari/605.1.15')] 
Failed to download valid cover 
Took 3.965352773666382 seconds 
No cached cover found, running identify
identify - title: "Fairy Tale" authors= "['Stephen King']"
create_query - title: "Fairy Tale"
create_query - after decode title: "Fairy Tale"
create_query - title_tokens: "['Fairy', 'Tale']"
Querying: https://www.kobo.com/search?Query=Fairy+Tale+Stephen+King&fcmedia=Book&fclanguages=all
failed using three divs
Have close enough match - title='Fairy Tale', id='fairy-tale-22'
failed using three divs
Have close enough match - title='Fairy Tale', id='fairy-tale-17'
failed using three divs
Have close enough match - title='Fairy Tale', id='fairy-tale-19'
failed using three divs
Have close enough match - title='Fairy Tale', id='fairy-tale-20'
failed using three divs
Have close enough match - title='SUMMARY BOOK OF STEPHEN KING; FAIRY TALE', id='summary-book-of-stephen-king-fairy-tale'
KoboBooks url: 'https://www.kobo.com/ebook/fairy-tale-22'
KoboBooks url: 'https://www.kobo.com/ebook/fairy-tale-17'
KoboBooks url: 'https://www.kobo.com/ebook/fairy-tale-19'
KoboBooks url: 'https://www.kobo.com/ebook/fairy-tale-20'
KoboBooks url: 'https://www.kobo.com/ebook/summary-book-of-stephen-king-fairy-tale'
parse_details - kobobooks_id: "fairy-tale-20" 
parse_details - title: "Fairy Tale" 
parse_authors - author: "Stephen King"
parse_authors - authors: "['Stephen King']"
parse_details - authors: "['Stephen King']" 
No scripts founds for book details metadata????
parse_series - series_name=None, series_index=None
Error parsing cover for url: 'https://www.kobo.com/ebook/fairy-tale-20'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "calibre_plugins.kobobooks.worker", line 165, in parse_details
  File "calibre_plugins.kobobooks.worker", line 300, in parse_cover
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '74f19e86-431d-42a9-874e-3e93c9daa67e'

parse_details - kobobooks_id: "fairy-tale-22" 
parse_details - title: "Fairy Tale" 
parse_authors - author: "Stephen King"
parse_authors - authors: "['Stephen King']"
parse_details - authors: "['Stephen King']" 
No scripts founds for book details metadata????
parse_series - series_name=None, series_index=None
Error parsing cover for url: 'https://www.kobo.com/ebook/fairy-tale-22'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "calibre_plugins.kobobooks.worker", line 165, in parse_details
  File "calibre_plugins.kobobooks.worker", line 300, in parse_cover
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'b8c98ca3-e8f4-412d-97c9-2162363af9b9'

parse_details - kobobooks_id: "summary-book-of-stephen-king-fairy-tale" 
parse_details - title: "SUMMARY BOOK OF STEPHEN KING; FAIRY TALE" 
parse_authors - author: "Mike Vincent"
parse_authors - authors: "['Mike Vincent']"
Rejecting authors as not a close match:  Mike Vincent
parse_details - authors: "None" 
Could not find title/authors/KoboBooks id for 'https://www.kobo.com/ebook/summary-book-of-stephen-king-fairy-tale'
Kobo Books: 'summary-book-of-stephen-king-fairy-tale' Title: 'SUMMARY BOOK OF STEPHEN KING; FAIRY TALE' Authors: None
parse_details - kobobooks_id: "fairy-tale-17" 
parse_details - title: "Fairy Tale" 
parse_authors - author: "Stephen King"
parse_authors - authors: "['Stephen King']"
parse_details - authors: "['Stephen King']" 
No scripts founds for book details metadata????
parse_series - series_name=None, series_index=None
Error parsing cover for url: 'https://www.kobo.com/ebook/fairy-tale-17'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "calibre_plugins.kobobooks.worker", line 165, in parse_details
  File "calibre_plugins.kobobooks.worker", line 300, in parse_cover
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '00fc74ca-66d2-4741-b3fa-6847508ab303'

parse_details - kobobooks_id: "fairy-tale-19" 
parse_details - title: "Fairy Tale" 
parse_authors - author: "Stephen King"
parse_authors - authors: "['Stephen King']"
parse_details - authors: "['Stephen King']" 
No scripts founds for book details metadata????
parse_series - series_name=None, series_index=None
Error parsing cover for url: 'https://www.kobo.com/ebook/fairy-tale-19'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "calibre_plugins.kobobooks.worker", line 165, in parse_details
  File "calibre_plugins.kobobooks.worker", line 300, in parse_cover
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'c0a0f150-c619-48b5-9eba-e10657244676'

No cover found 

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

****************************** Kobo Metadata 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 2.055835485458374 seconds 
KoboMetadata::download_cover: No cached url found, running identify
KoboMetadata::identify: title: Fairy Tale, authors: ['Stephen King'], identifiers: {}
KoboMetadata::identify: Searching with query: Fairy Tale Stephen King
KoboMetadata::identify: Searching for book with url: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?query=Fairy+Tale+Stephen+King
KoboMetadata::identify: Looking up metadata with url: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/fairy-tale-16
KoboMetadata::_lookup_metadata: Got title: Fairy Tale
KoboMetadata::_lookup_metadata: Got authors: ['Stephen King']
KoboMetadata::_lookup_metadata: Got publisher: Scribner
KoboMetadata::_lookup_metadata: Got pubdate: 2022-09-06 00:00:00+00:00
KoboMetadata::_lookup_metadata: Got isbn: 9781668002186
KoboMetadata::_lookup_metadata: Got language: English
KoboMetadata::_lookup_metadata: Got tags: {'Thrillers', 'Science Fiction & Fantasy', 'Mystery & Suspense', 'Fantasy'}
KoboMetadata::_lookup_metadata: Got comments: b'
A #1 New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice!
\n
Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for that world or ours.
\n
Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it.
\n
Charlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world.
\n
Magnificent, terrifying, and “spellbinding…packed with glorious flights of imagination and characteristic tenderness about childhood, Fairy Tale is vintage King at his finest” (Esquire).
\n
“Good, evil, a kingdom to save, monsters to slay—these are the stuff that page-turners are made from.” —Laura Miller, Slate
\n
 \r\n    '
KoboMetadata::_lookup_metadata: Got cover: https://cdn.kobo.com/book-images/0b63e53e-de3c-4069-b02e-e73ce05272df/2000/4000/90/False/fairy-tale-16.jpg
KoboMetadata::_check_title_blacklist: blacklisted title words: {''}
KoboMetadata::_check_tag_blacklist: blacklisted tags: blacklisted_tags
Failed to download cover from Kobo Metadata
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\covers.py", line 46, in run
  File "calibre_plugins.dummy2.__init__", line 220, in download_cover
AttributeError: 'Queue' object has no attribute 'front' 

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

****************************** 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')] 
Downloaded cover: 2244x2992 
Took 1.58723783493042 seconds 
Search URL: https://www.google.com/search?as_st=y&tbm=isch&as_q=Fairy+Tale+Stephen+King&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&cr=&as_sitesearch=&safe=images&tbs=isz:lt,islt:svga,iar:t,ift:jpg
Downloading 5 covers
Downloaded cover from: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/612BYerla-L._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg
Downloaded cover from: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71CNQzIm1AL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg
Downloaded cover from: https://d28hgpri8am2if.cloudfront.net/book_images/onix/cvr9781668002193/fairy-tale-9781668002193_hr.jpg
Downloaded cover from: http://bookspaperscissors.co.uk/cdn/shop/files/image_c096ce02-9bb5-4125-9e22-b66a10963503_1024x1024.heic?v=1686145576
Downloaded cover from: https://i.etsystatic.com/28166605/r/il/8d4d14/4521256305/il_fullxfull.4521256305_req6.jpg 

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

****************************** Amazon.com Covers ****************************** 
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.88 Safari/537.36'), ('Accept', 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8'), ('Upgrade-insecure-requests', '1'), ('Referer', 'https://www.google.com/search?q=Fairy+Tale+Stephen+King+site%3Awww.amazon.com')] 
Downloaded cover: 328x500 
Took 5.274893045425415 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/87.0.4280.88 Safari/537.36
Server: auto
Making google query: https://www.google.com/search?q=Fairy+Tale+Stephen+King+site%3Awww.amazon.com
Ignoring 'Fairy Tale: King, Stephenamazon.comhttps://www.amazon.com › Fairy-Tale-Stephen-King' as it has no cached page
Ignoring 'Fairy Tale: King, Stephenamazon.comhttps://www.amazon.com › Fairy-Tale-Stephen-King' as it has no cached page
Ignoring 'Fairy Tale: King, Stephenamazon.comhttps://www.amazon.com › Fairy-Tale-Stephen-King' as it has no cached page
Ignoring 'Fairy Tale: King, Stephenamazon.comhttps://www.amazon.com › Fairy-Tale-Stephen-King' as it has no cached page
Ignoring 'Fairy Tale: King, Stephenamazon.comhttps://www.amazon.com › Fairy-Tale-Stephen-King' as it has no cached page
Ignoring 'Fairy Tale: King, Stephenamazon.comhttps://www.amazon.com › Fairy-Tale-Stephen-King' as it has no cached page
Ignoring 'Images for Fairy Tale Stephen King site:www.amazon.com' as it has no cached page
Ignoring 'Images for Fairy Tale Stephen King site:www.amazon.com' as it has no cached page
Ignoring 'Images for Fairy Tale Stephen King site:www.amazon.com' as it has no cached page
Ignoring 'Images for Fairy Tale Stephen King site:www.amazon.com' as it has no cached page
Ignoring 'Images for Fairy Tale Stephen King site:www.amazon.com' as it has no cached page
Ignoring div with no main result link
Ignoring 'novel' as it has no cached page
Ignoring 'novel' as it has no cached page
Ignoring 'novel' as it has no cached page
Skipping non-book result: Result(url='https://www.amazon.com/Fairy-Tale-Stephen-King/product-reviews/1668002175', title='Customer reviews: Fairy Taleamazon.comhttps://www.amazon.com › product-reviews', cached_url='https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Rd5nDSF0pUgJ:https://www.amazon.com/Fairy-Tale-Stephen-King/product-reviews/1668002175&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk')
Skipping non-book result: Result(url='https://www.amazon.com/Fairy-Tale-Stephen-King/product-reviews/1668002175', title='Customer reviews: Fairy Taleamazon.comhttps://www.amazon.com › product-reviews', cached_url='https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Rd5nDSF0pUgJ:https://www.amazon.com/Fairy-Tale-Stephen-King/product-reviews/1668002175&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk')
Skipping non-book result: Result(url='https://www.amazon.com/Fairy-Tale-Stephen-King/product-reviews/1668002175', title='Customer reviews: Fairy Taleamazon.comhttps://www.amazon.com › product-reviews', cached_url='https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Rd5nDSF0pUgJ:https://www.amazon.com/Fairy-Tale-Stephen-King/product-reviews/1668002175&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk')
Skipping non-book result: Result(url='https://www.amazon.com/Fairy-Tale-Stephen-King/product-reviews/1668002175', title='Customer reviews: Fairy Taleamazon.comhttps://www.amazon.com › product-reviews', cached_url='https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Rd5nDSF0pUgJ:https://www.amazon.com/Fairy-Tale-Stephen-King/product-reviews/1668002175&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk')
Skipping non-book result: Result(url='https://www.amazon.com/Fairy-Tale-Stephen-King/product-reviews/1668002175', title='Customer reviews: Fairy Taleamazon.comhttps://www.amazon.com › product-reviews', cached_url='https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Rd5nDSF0pUgJ:https://www.amazon.com/Fairy-Tale-Stephen-King/product-reviews/1668002175&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk')
Skipping non-book result: Result(url='https://www.amazon.com/Fairy-Tale-Stephen-King/product-reviews/1668002175', title='Customer reviews: Fairy Taleamazon.comhttps://www.amazon.com › product-reviews', cached_url='https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Rd5nDSF0pUgJ:https://www.amazon.com/Fairy-Tale-Stephen-King/product-reviews/1668002175&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk')
Downloading details from: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7fovMmVc8g8J:https://www.amazon.com/Fairy-Tale-Stephen-King/dp/B0B1PLS7CB&cd=11&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk
Found image: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91aCox8y3rL._AC_UF350,350_QL50_.jpg
Downloading details from: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:HAsTD4WWph8J:https://www.amazon.com/Fairy-Tale-Stephen-King-ebook/dp/B09QXZB6SK&cd=22&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk
Failed to find product description for url: 'https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:HAsTD4WWph8J:https://www.amazon.com/Fairy-Tale-Stephen-King-ebook/dp/B09QXZB6SK&cd=22&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk'
Downloading details from: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mUh-KtKM5WEJ:https://www.amazon.com/Fairy-Tale/dp/1399705423&cd=23&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk
Could not find title/authors/asin for 'https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mUh-KtKM5WEJ:https://www.amazon.com/Fairy-Tale/dp/1399705423&cd=23&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk'
ASIN: '1399705423' Title: 'Fairy Tale' Authors: []
Downloading cover from: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51WTYfWgfSL.jpg 

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DNSB · 09-04-2023, 08:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NotSimone

Aha I missed this one - easy enough to add. Strangely enough Kobo seems to only look at the width and not the height before matching aspect ratio even though it takes height as part of the url.

Personally, I prefer returning the original image. I don't need the plugin resizing it and then resizing it again to fit my choice for cover sizes.

JSWolf · 09-05-2023, 05:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DNSB

Personally, I prefer returning the original image. I don't need the plugin resizing it and then resizing it again to fit my choice for cover sizes.

I agree. I do want the original image. But for now, I get no image.

JSWolf · 09-05-2023, 06:27 AM

Why is Kobo Metadata showing up in identifiers (in Book details)? It should not be there.

NotSimone · 09-05-2023, 07:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JSWolf

If this is not a beta version, the attachment in the first post needs to be replaced with this one and this attachment removed.

Also, the first post should be reformatted so calibre picks it up and adds it to the list.

Sorry first time writing a Calibre plugin (and posting on this forum!). How do I edit a post?

Quote:

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I've tried both versions and neither version works for me. I get no covers downloaded. I've tried both USA and UK.

Ahh I never tried downloading only covers so I never ran into this when testing. Its an issue related to picking up new cover urls that haven't been cached yet by the metadata download. I've fixed it and attached an updated version this reply.

Quote:

Originally Posted by DNSB

Personally, I prefer returning the original image. I don't need the plugin resizing it and then resizing it again to fit my choice for cover sizes.

I agree here but tbh I have no idea how to get the original image from Kobo. Personally I think that whatever re-scaling algorithm they're using seems pretty good to my (not particularly discerning) eyes. If you ever figure it out, I'm happy to whack it in.

Quote:

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Why is Kobo Metadata showing up in identifiers (in Book details)? It should not be there.

It looks like this happens with all metadata fetchers as long as it can generate a url from its identifier. Since I'm using the isbn as the identifier, the link will appear as long as you have the isbn set.

BetterRed · 09-05-2023, 07:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NotSimone

. . .
How do I edit a post?

You go to the Lounge and post some replies to bump your post count - a dozen is usually enough.

BR

JSWolf · 09-05-2023, 08:05 AM

Downloading covers is now working.

I really like being able to change between US and UK for downloading covers.

Thanks.

DNSB · 09-05-2023, 02:20 PM

I've attached an image to show what I meant about the cover size. I reverted to the original version of KoboMetadata where the image was not resized on download for this test. The Kobo Books' downloaded cover (2460x3750) has been automatically resized to fit the maximum cover size in calibre while the Kobo Metadata's cover (1650x2514) has not been resized. With the new version, both plugins show the same cover size.

JSWolf · 09-05-2023, 06:32 PM

I too do not want the resided cover.

09-03-2023, 10:11 AM	#2
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 76,963 Karma: 138588794 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	davidfor's original plugin is working. How is your different? What would make your plugin different is to be able to set the country. Last edited by JSWolf; 09-03-2023 at 10:18 AM.

09-05-2023, 08:05 AM	#13
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 76,963 Karma: 138588794 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	Downloading covers is now working. I really like being able to change between US and UK for downloading covers. Thanks. Last edited by JSWolf; 09-05-2023 at 08:15 AM.

09-05-2023, 02:20 PM	#14
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 41,313 Karma: 158182188 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	I've attached an image to show what I meant about the cover size. I reverted to the original version of KoboMetadata where the image was not resized on download for this test. The Kobo Books' downloaded cover (2460x3750) has been automatically resized to fit the maximum cover size in calibre while the Kobo Metadata's cover (1650x2514) has not been resized. With the new version, both plugins show the same cover size. Attached Thumbnails

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09-03-2023, 11:59 AM	#3
NotSimone Book Enjoyer Posts: 63 Karma: 704770 Join Date: Sep 2023 Device: Kobo Libra 2	The other party trick it has is to blacklist certain tags or words in the title - useful when there are different media formats of the same series floating around. But otherwise, the existing plugin was a bit janky from all the different people piling on and adding their own fixes every time it stopped working - seemed like a decent opportunity to start clean and use some of the more modern python features

09-05-2023, 06:27 AM	#10
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 76,963 Karma: 138588794 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	Why is Kobo Metadata showing up in identifiers (in Book details)? It should not be there.

09-05-2023, 06:32 PM	#15
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 76,963 Karma: 138588794 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	I too do not want the resided cover.

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