amazon plugin failed

[Steve]

when attempting to download metadata, whether through the ISBN only, or the title only, an error message occurs that states to use fewer options. I checked the details (below) and it appears the Amazon plugin fails. This occurs 98% of the time. I have even unloaded calibre, deleted all its leftover files, etc from disc and registry, rebooted and reinstalled. It will work the first time and then fail after that (maybe coincidence that it even worked). If I add "Google" as one of the sources to the metadata download it then works but the results from Google are bad (incorrect info, no formatting, etc).

After trying one last thing before sending you this bug, it started working. I had change the server option under Amazon from Choose Server Automatically to Amazon Servers

 calibre, version 3.17.0
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'title': u'Knife of Dreams', u'timeout': 30, u'identifiers': {}, u'authors': None}
Using plugins: Amazon.com (1, 2, 0), Edelweiss (1, 0, 0), ISBNDB (1, 0, 0), Overdrive (1, 0, 0)
The log from individual plugins is below

****************************** Edelweiss (1, 0, 0) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from Edelweiss took 1.59899997711
Using query URL: https://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/Browse.aspx?source=catalog&rg=4187&group=browse&pg=0&bsk=Knife+of+Dreams&secSord=20&savecook=1&browseType=title&startIndex=0&tertSord=20&sord=20

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****************************** Amazon.com (1, 2, 0) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from Amazon.com took 1.34099984169
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36
Server: auto
Making google query: https://www.google.com/search?q=Knife+of+Dreams+site%3Awww.amazon.com
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 1342, in identify
  File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\amazon.py", line 1278, in search_search_engine
  File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\search_engines.py", line 233, in google_search
IndexError: list index out of range

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****************************** Overdrive (1, 0, 0) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from Overdrive took 1.40899991989
Initial query is Knife of Dreams
Cross reference query is

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****************************** ISBNDB (1, 0, 0) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from ISBNDB took 1.28099989891
Failed to make query to ISBNDb, aborting.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\isbndb.py", line 107, in identify
  File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\isbndb.py", line 218, in make_query
  File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\isbndb.py", line 155, in parse_feed
ValueError: ISBNDb query failed:

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The identify phase took 1.61 seconds
The longest time (1.599000) was taken by: Edelweiss
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

[Steve (smdelory72)]

ok. sorry. didn't show up when I did the query.

On 2/21/2018 8:36 PM, Kovid Goyal wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1750692 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1750692
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1750692
> Amazon metadata plugin error
>