ISBN search returns "The search returned no items"

[LukeKendall]

Binary package hint: tellico

I can't get searches to return any items. The same ISBN (0-553-56273-8) which in GCstar returns all the expected info from ISBNdb.com, in tellico returns nothing. Ditto for library of congress. I found via google a response to this problem that said to try adding the line
Syntax=grs-1
to the config file and I also found a response that said that worked, but nowhere could I find a mention of which section of the config file I should add that line to. I tried adding it to the section for ISBNdb.com data source and that didn't work, nor did it adding it only to the Fetch section.
I have tried several ISBN numbers, with and without "-" character separating the numbers.

PS:
The reason for wanting tellico over gcstar is that I'm hopeful of adding some automation to feed it a whole long list of ISBNs (collected e.g. by a long barcode scan session to collect barcodes and somehow converting those to ISBNs), so I don't have to add every book one by one, manually.

[LukeKendall (luke-zeta)]

I should add, this is Tellico v 1.3.2.1 using KDE 3.5.10 on Ubuntu 8.10.

[Robby Stephenson (robby)]

0-553-56273-8 works for me with the isbndb.com data source with Tellico 1.3.4. I don't think there have been any changes in that section of the code since 1.3.2.1, so I'm not sure why it's not working for you.

The grs-1 line is only applicable for z39.50 sources, which Library of Congress is, though. And there seems to be a separate bug with that search in 1.3.4.

[sonmez (sonmezsahut)]

I am using Ubuntu 9.04 and Tellico 1.3.5 and i have the same problem.
I cannot get any result from any database.

[sonmez (sonmezsahut)]

I just tried Alexandria and GCstar and neither worked .

[sonmez (sonmezsahut)]

I found that this is a problem with versions 1.3.5 and below.
http://tellico-project.org/searching-amazon-no-longer-works-tellico-13x

[Robby Stephenson (robby)]

Another note is that isbndb.com has a daily query limit. Tellico 2.1 will allow using different access keys, but for now, if the query limit is reached, then the search will always return no results.

[Dominik Stadler (dominik-stadler)]

As far as I see this will be "fixed" by Tellico 2.1, therefore I am duplicating this Bug to Bug 434372 which requests tellico 2.1 to be included. There is a PPA listed in that Bug that provides experimental packages for Karmic.