Get Books unable to find book from ebooks.com

[TraceyC]

There is a book on ebooks.com that does not appear in the Get Books search results in Calibre. It appears in other stores which carry this title (Kobo).
I don't see a result for Barnes & Noble or Amazon Kindle either, which also carry it. I've seen results for books on Amazon in prior searches.

Title: "Witch King" by Martha Wells.

https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/book/210645156/witch-king/martha-wells/

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/witch-king-martha-wells/1141976525?ean=9781250826800

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B9KVV7JH/

In Configure, I increased number of seconds to wait for a store to respond, and to let a store process results, to 90. This did not change the search results. The spinner above the "Stop" button is still spinning even after a few minutes, I don't know if that's related.

See the attached screenshot of the search results.

Calibre has been great software for me and I appreciate all the effort that goes into its development. I'm happy to help troubleshoot this issue. I don't know python, so I'm not able to try to fix this myself.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

B&N website was changed, I will fix that. Amazon works for me, however,
amazon tends to block queries with a CAPTCHA after a few attempts so
most likely that is why it is not working for you. Nothing I can do
about that.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Fixed in branch master. The fix will be in the next release. calibre is usually released every alternate Friday.

[TraceyC (grrlgeek)]

This problem has not been fixed as of Calibre 6.25.
When searching for "Witch King" with only ebooks.com, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon Kindle selected, I still get the message "Couldn't find any books matching your query".

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Works for me. As I said most likely your IP address has been blocked. Try it again in a day or so. I find amazon blocks IPs after one or two queries. And there was a typo in the B&N plugin which has been fixed.

[TraceyC (grrlgeek)]

The search failed on the first try with all three vendors (not just Amazon). I find it highly unlikely that my IP was blocked before the first search. Just to confirm, you can find the book searching ebooks.com?

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Nope I can find them searching either amazon or B&N as I said in my
previous response, I fixed B&N not ebooks.com. And amazon was working
already.

[TraceyC (grrlgeek)]

My original report included Get Books not being able to find a book in ebooks.com. From your response it sounds like you can't find it either in ebooks.com. If so why is this marked Fix Released? Do I need to open a second bug report for the original issue?

Aug 24, 2023 10:05:21 PM Kovid Goyal <email address hidden>:

> Nope I can find them searching either amazon or B&N as I said in my
> previous response, I fixed B&N not ebooks.com. And amazon was working
> already.
>
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> Title:
>   Get Books unable to find book from ebooks.com
>
> Status in calibre:
>   Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
>   There is a book on ebooks.com that does not appear in the Get Books search results in Calibre. It appears in other stores which carry this title (Kobo).
>   I don't see a result for Barnes & Noble or Amazon Kindle either, which also carry it. I've seen results for books on Amazon in prior searches.
>
>   Title: "Witch King" by Martha Wells.
>
>   https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/book/210645156/witch-king/martha-wells/
>
>   https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/witch-king-martha-
>   wells/1141976525?ean=9781250826800
>
>   https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B9KVV7JH/
>
>   In Configure, I increased number of seconds to wait for a store to
>   respond, and to let a store process results, to 90. This did not
>   change the search results. The spinner above the "Stop" button is
>   still spinning even after a few minutes, I don't know if that's
>   related.
>
>   See the attached screenshot of the search results.
>
>   Calibre has been great software for me and I appreciate all the effort
>   that goes into its development. I'm happy to help troubleshoot this
>   issue. I don't know python, so I'm not able to try to fix this myself.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
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[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

I'm afraid I have no interest in fixing ebooks.com, since it has moved to
a javascript based search. Amazon and B&N are still searchable with
reasonable effort.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Actually, after some investigation of the new ebooks.com site it might
be possible to download the search result directly via API. I dont know
how reliable it will be, needs testing.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Fixed in branch master. The fix will be in the next release. calibre is usually released every alternate Friday.