From d57f3c0a07448a9913ebdf6640be4e90fc2b9fa6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2026 09:44:25 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Remove the biig book search metadata plugin as the website no
 longer exists

---
 src/calibre/customize/builtins.py             |  3 +-
 .../metadata/sources/big_book_search.py       | 58 -------------------
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 60 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/big_book_search.py

diff --git a/src/calibre/customize/builtins.py b/src/calibre/customize/builtins.py
index 29f96ffac4..beacada7c9 100644
--- a/src/calibre/customize/builtins.py
+++ b/src/calibre/customize/builtins.py
@@ -846,13 +846,12 @@ plugins += [
 
 # New metadata download plugins {{{
 from calibre.ebooks.metadata.sources.amazon import Amazon
-from calibre.ebooks.metadata.sources.big_book_search import BigBookSearch
 from calibre.ebooks.metadata.sources.edelweiss import Edelweiss
 from calibre.ebooks.metadata.sources.google import GoogleBooks
 from calibre.ebooks.metadata.sources.google_images import GoogleImages
 from calibre.ebooks.metadata.sources.openlibrary import OpenLibrary
 
-plugins += [GoogleBooks, GoogleImages, Amazon, Edelweiss, OpenLibrary, BigBookSearch]
+plugins += [GoogleBooks, GoogleImages, Amazon, Edelweiss, OpenLibrary]
 
 # }}}
 
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/big_book_search.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/big_book_search.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 78305483e7..0000000000
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/big_book_search.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,58 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-# vim:fileencoding=UTF-8
-from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function, unicode_literals
-
-__license__   = 'GPL v3'
-__copyright__ = '2013, Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>'
-__docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
-
-from calibre.ebooks.metadata.sources.base import Option, Source
-
-
-def get_urls(br, tokens):
-    from urllib.parse import quote_plus
-
-    from html5_parser import parse
-    escaped = (quote_plus(x) for x in tokens if x and x.strip())
-    q = '+'.join(escaped)
-    url = 'https://bigbooksearch.com/please-dont-scrape-my-site-you-will-put-my-api-key-over-the-usage-limit-and-the-site-will-break/books/'+q
-    raw = br.open(url).read()
-    root = parse(raw.decode('utf-8'))
-    urls = [i.get('src') for i in root.xpath('//img[@src]')]
-    return urls
-
-
-class BigBookSearch(Source):
-
-    name = 'Big Book Search'
-    version = (1, 0, 1)
-    minimum_calibre_version = (2, 80, 0)
-    description = _('Downloads multiple book covers from Amazon. Useful to find alternate covers.')
-    capabilities = frozenset(['cover'])
-    can_get_multiple_covers = True
-    options = (Option('max_covers', 'number', 5, _('Maximum number of covers to get'),
-                      _('The maximum number of covers to process from the search result')),
-    )
-    supports_gzip_transfer_encoding = True
-
-    def download_cover(self, log, result_queue, abort,
-            title=None, authors=None, identifiers={}, timeout=30, get_best_cover=False):
-        if not title:
-            return
-        br = self.browser
-        tokens = tuple(self.get_title_tokens(title)) + tuple(self.get_author_tokens(authors))
-        urls = get_urls(br, tokens)
-        self.download_multiple_covers(title, authors, urls, get_best_cover, timeout, result_queue, abort, log)
-
-
-def test():
-    import pprint
-
-    from calibre import browser
-    br = browser()
-    urls = get_urls(br, ['consider', 'phlebas', 'banks'])
-    pprint.pprint(urls)
-
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    test()