calibre now searches the Google Books database ina ddition to isbndb.com for book metadata

src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/__init__.py

@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ class MetaInformation(object):
         if mi.authors and mi.authors[0] != _('Unknown'):
             self.authors = mi.authors
             
-        for attr in ('author_sort', 'title_sort', 'comments', 'category',
+        for attr in ('author_sort', 'title_sort', 'category',
                      'publisher', 'series', 'series_index', 'rating',
                      'isbn', 'application_id', 'manifest', 'spine', 'toc', 
                      'cover', 'language', 'guide', 'book_producer', 
@@ -249,6 +249,15 @@ class MetaInformation(object):
         if getattr(mi, 'cover_data', None) and mi.cover_data[0] is not None:
             self.cover_data = mi.cover_data
             
+        my_comments = getattr(self, 'comments', '')
+        other_comments = getattr(mi, 'comments', '')
+        if not my_comments:
+            my_comments = ''
+        if not other_comments:
+            other_comments = ''
+        if len(other_comments.strip()) > len(my_comments.strip()):
+            self.comments = other_comments
+            
     def format_series_index(self):
         try:
             x = float(self.series_index)

src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/fetch.py

@@ -0,0 +1,153 @@
+from __future__ import with_statement
+__license__ = 'GPL 3'
+__copyright__ = '2009, Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>'
+__docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
+
+import traceback, sys, textwrap
+from threading import Thread
+
+from calibre import preferred_encoding
+from calibre.utils.config import OptionParser
+
+class FetchGoogle(Thread):
+    name = 'Google Books'
+        
+    def __init__(self, title, author, publisher, isbn, verbose):
+        self.title = title
+        self.verbose = verbose
+        self.author = author
+        self.publisher = publisher
+        self.isbn = isbn
+        Thread.__init__(self, None)
+        self.daemon = True
+        self.exception, self.tb = None, None
+        
+    def run(self):
+        from calibre.ebooks.metadata.google_books import search
+        try:
+            self.results = search(self.title, self.author, self.publisher, 
+                                  self.isbn, max_results=10, 
+                                  verbose=self.verbose)
+        except Exception, e:
+            self.results = []
+            self.exception = e
+            self.tb = traceback.format_exc() 
+
+
+class FetchISBNDB(Thread):
+    name = 'IsbnDB'
+    def __init__(self, title, author, publisher, isbn, verbose, key):
+        self.title = title
+        self.author = author
+        self.publisher = publisher
+        self.isbn = isbn
+        self.verbose = verbose
+        Thread.__init__(self, None)
+        self.daemon = True
+        self.exception, self.tb = None, None
+        self.key = key
+        
+    def run(self):
+        from calibre.ebooks.metadata.isbndb import option_parser, create_books
+        args = ['isbndb']
+        if self.isbn:
+            args.extend(['--isbn', self.isbn])
+        else: 
+            if self.title:
+                args.extend(['--title', self.title])
+            if self.author:
+                args.extend(['--author', self.author])
+            if self.publisher:
+                args.extend(['--publisher', self.publisher])
+        args.append(self.key)
+        try:
+            opts, args = option_parser().parse_args(args)
+            self.results = create_books(opts, args)
+        except Exception, e:
+            self.results = []
+            self.exception = e
+            self.tb = traceback.format_exc()
+
+def result_index(source, result):
+    if not result.isbn:
+        return -1
+    for i, x in enumerate(source):
+        if x.isbn == result.isbn:
+            return i
+    return -1
+    
+def merge_results(one, two):
+    for x in two:
+        idx = result_index(one, x)
+        if idx < 0:
+            one.append(x)
+        else:
+            one[idx].smart_update(x)
+
+def search(title=None, author=None, publisher=None, isbn=None, isbndb_key=None,
+           verbose=0):
+    assert not(title is None and author is None and publisher is None and \
+                   isbn is None)
+    fetchers = [FetchGoogle(title, author, publisher, isbn, verbose)]
+    if isbndb_key:
+        fetchers.append(FetchISBNDB(title, author, publisher, isbn, verbose, 
+                                        isbndb_key))
+        
+    
+    for fetcher in fetchers:
+        fetcher.start()
+    for fetcher in fetchers:
+        fetcher.join()
+    for fetcher in fetchers[1:]:
+        merge_results(fetchers[0].results, fetcher.results)
+        
+    results = sorted(fetchers[0].results, cmp=lambda x, y : cmp(
+            (x.comments.strip() if x.comments else ''),
+            (y.comments.strip() if y.comments else '')
+                                                  ), reverse=True)
+    
+    return results, [(x.name, x.exception, x.tb) for x in fetchers]
+
+        
+def option_parser():
+    parser = OptionParser(textwrap.dedent(
+        '''\
+        %prog [options]
+        
+        Fetch book metadata from online sources. You must specify at least one 
+        of title, author, publisher or ISBN. If you specify ISBN, the others 
+        are ignored.  
+        '''
+    ))
+    parser.add_option('-t', '--title', help='Book title')
+    parser.add_option('-a', '--author', help='Book author(s)')
+    parser.add_option('-p', '--publisher', help='Book publisher')
+    parser.add_option('-i', '--isbn', help='Book ISBN')
+    parser.add_option('-m', '--max-results', default=10, 
+                      help='Maximum number of results to fetch')
+    parser.add_option('-k', '--isbndb-key', 
+                      help=('The access key for your ISBNDB.com account. '
+                      'Only needed if you want to search isbndb.com'))
+    parser.add_option('-v', '--verbose', default=0, action='count',
+                      help='Be more verbose about errors')
+    return parser
+
+def main(args=sys.argv):
+    parser = option_parser()
+    opts, args = parser.parse_args(args)
+    results, exceptions = search(opts.title, opts.author, opts.publisher, 
+                                 opts.isbn, opts.isbndb_key, opts.verbose)
+    for result in results:
+        print unicode(result).encode(preferred_encoding)
+        print
+        
+    for name, exception, tb in exceptions:
+        if exception is not None:
+            print 'WARNING: Fetching from', name, 'failed with error:'
+            print exception
+            print tb
+            
+    return 0
+    
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    sys.exit(main())

src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/google_books.py

@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ class ResultList(list):
         try:
             desc = description(entry)
             if desc:
-                return desc[0].text
+                return 'SUMMARY:\n'+desc[0].text
         except:
             report(verbose)
     
@@ -200,9 +200,6 @@ def search(title=None, author=None, publisher=None, isbn=None,
     
     ans = ResultList()
     ans.populate(entries, br, verbose)
-    ans.sort(cmp=lambda x, y:cmp(len(x.comments if x.comments else ''),
-                                 len(x.comments if x.comments else '')), 
-                                 reverse=True)
     return ans
 
 def option_parser():

src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/isbndb.py

@@ -4,10 +4,9 @@ __copyright__ = '2008, Kovid Goyal <kovid at kovidgoyal.net>'
 Interface to isbndb.com. My key HLLXQX2A.
 '''
 
-import sys, logging, re, socket
+import sys, re, socket
 from urllib import urlopen, quote
 
-from calibre import setup_cli_handlers
 from calibre.utils.config import OptionParser
 from calibre.ebooks.metadata import MetaInformation, authors_to_sort_string
 from calibre.ebooks.BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup
@@ -63,9 +62,10 @@ class ISBNDBMetadata(MetaInformation):
             
         try:
             self.author_sort = book.find('authors').find('person').string
+            if self.authors and self.author_sort == self.authors[0]:
+                self.author_sort = None
         except:
-            if self.authors:
+            pass
-                self.author_sort = authors_to_sort_string(self.authors)
         self.publisher = book.find('publishertext').string
         
         summ = book.find('summary')
@@ -118,19 +118,15 @@ key is the account key you generate after signing up for a free account from isb
     return parser
     
 
-def create_books(opts, args, logger=None, timeout=5.):
+def create_books(opts, args, timeout=5.):
-    if logger is None:
-        level = logging.DEBUG if opts.verbose else logging.INFO
-        logger = logging.getLogger('isbndb')
-        setup_cli_handlers(logger, level)
-    
     base_url = BASE_URL%dict(key=args[1])
     if opts.isbn is not None:
         url = build_isbn(base_url, opts)
     else:
         url = build_combined(base_url, opts)
     
-    logger.info('ISBNDB query: '+url)
+    if opts.verbose:
+        print ('ISBNDB query: '+url)
     
     return [ISBNDBMetadata(book) for book in fetch_metadata(url, timeout=timeout)]
 

src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/fetch_metadata.py

@@ -4,22 +4,74 @@ __copyright__ = '2008, Kovid Goyal <kovid at kovidgoyal.net>'
 GUI for fetching metadata from servers.
 '''
 
-import logging, cStringIO
+import time
 
-from PyQt4.QtCore import Qt, QObject, SIGNAL, QVariant, \
+from PyQt4.QtCore import Qt, QObject, SIGNAL, QVariant, QThread, \
                          QAbstractTableModel, QCoreApplication, QTimer
-from PyQt4.QtGui import QDialog, QItemSelectionModel
+from PyQt4.QtGui import QDialog, QItemSelectionModel, QWidget, QLabel, QMovie
 
 from calibre.gui2.dialogs.fetch_metadata_ui import Ui_FetchMetadata
-from calibre.gui2 import error_dialog, NONE, info_dialog
+from calibre.gui2 import error_dialog, NONE, info_dialog, warning_dialog
-from calibre.ebooks.metadata.isbndb import create_books, option_parser, ISBNDBError
 from calibre.utils.config import prefs
 
+class Fetcher(QThread):
+    
+    def __init__(self, title, author, publisher, isbn, key):
+        QThread.__init__(self)
+        self.title = title
+        self.author = author
+        self.publisher = publisher
+        self.isbn = isbn
+        self.key = key
+        
+    def run(self):
+        from calibre.ebooks.metadata.fetch import search
+        self.results, self.exceptions = search(self.title, self.author,
+                                               self.publisher, self.isbn, 
+                                               self.key if self.key else None)
+
+class ProgressIndicator(QWidget):
+    
+    def __init__(self, *args):
+        QWidget.__init__(self, *args)
+        self.setGeometry(0, 0, 300, 350)
+        self.movie = QMovie(':/images/jobs-animated.mng')
+        self.ml = QLabel(self)
+        self.ml.setMovie(self.movie)
+        self.movie.start()
+        self.movie.setPaused(True)
+        self.status = QLabel(self)
+        self.status.setWordWrap(True)
+        self.status.setAlignment(Qt.AlignHCenter|Qt.AlignTop)
+        self.status.font().setBold(True)
+        self.status.font().setPointSize(self.font().pointSize()+6)
+        self.setVisible(False)
+        
+    def start(self, msg=''):
+        view = self.parent()
+        pwidth, pheight = view.size().width(), view.size().height()
+        self.resize(pwidth, min(pheight, 250))
+        self.move(0, (pheight-self.size().height())/2.)
+        self.ml.resize(self.ml.sizeHint())
+        self.ml.move(int((self.size().width()-self.ml.size().width())/2.), 0)
+        self.status.resize(self.size().width(), self.size().height()-self.ml.size().height()-10)
+        self.status.move(0, self.ml.size().height()+10)
+        self.status.setText(msg)
+        self.setVisible(True)
+        self.movie.setPaused(False)
+        
+    def stop(self):
+        if self.movie.state() == self.movie.Running:
+            self.movie.setPaused(True)
+            self.setVisible(False)
+            
 class Matches(QAbstractTableModel):
     
     def __init__(self, matches):
         self.matches = matches
-        self.matches.sort(cmp=lambda b, a: cmp(len(a.comments if a.comments else ''), len(b.comments if b.comments else '')))
+        self.matches.sort(cmp=lambda b, a: \
+                        cmp(len(a.comments if a.comments else ''), 
+                            len(b.comments if b.comments else '')))
         QAbstractTableModel.__init__(self)
         
     def rowCount(self, *args):
@@ -73,22 +125,23 @@ class FetchMetadata(QDialog, Ui_FetchMetadata):
         Ui_FetchMetadata.__init__(self)
         self.setupUi(self)
         
+        self.pi = ProgressIndicator(self)
         self.timeout = timeout
         QObject.connect(self.fetch, SIGNAL('clicked()'), self.fetch_metadata)
         
         self.key.setText(prefs['isbndb_com_key'])
         
-        self.setWindowTitle(title if title else 'Unknown')
+        self.setWindowTitle(title if title else _('Unknown'))
-        self.tlabel.setText(self.tlabel.text().arg(title if title else 'Unknown'))
         self.isbn = isbn
         self.title = title
         self.author = author.strip()
         self.publisher = publisher
         self.previous_row = None
         self.connect(self.matches, SIGNAL('activated(QModelIndex)'), self.chosen)
-        key = str(self.key.text())
+        self.connect(self.matches, SIGNAL('entered(QModelIndex)'), 
-        if key:
+                     lambda index:self.matches.setCurrentIndex(index))
-            QTimer.singleShot(100, self.fetch_metadata)
+        self.matches.setMouseTracking(True)
+        self.fetch_metadata()
         
         
     def show_summary(self, current, previous):
@@ -100,52 +153,57 @@ class FetchMetadata(QDialog, Ui_FetchMetadata):
         
     def fetch_metadata(self):
         key = str(self.key.text())
-        if not key:
+        if key:
-            error_dialog(self, _('Cannot connect'), 
-                         _('You must specify a valid access key for isbndb.com'))
-            return
-        else:
             prefs['isbndb_com_key'] =  key
-            
+        else:
-        args = ['isbndb']
+            key = None
+        title = author = publisher = isbn = None
         if self.isbn:
-            args.extend(('--isbn', self.isbn))
+            isbn = self.isbn
         if self.title:
-            args.extend(('--title', self.title))
+            title = self.title
-        if self.author and not self.author == 'Unknown':
+        if self.author and not self.author == _('Unknown'):
-            args.extend(('--author', self.author))
+            author = self.author
-        #if self.publisher:
-        #    args.extend(('--publisher', self.publisher))
-        
         self.fetch.setEnabled(False)
         self.setCursor(Qt.WaitCursor)
         QCoreApplication.instance().processEvents()
-        try:
+        self.fetcher = Fetcher(title, author, publisher, isbn, key)
-            args.append(key)
+        self.fetcher.start()
-            parser = option_parser()
+        self.pi.start(_('Finding metadata...'))
-            opts, args = parser.parse_args(args)
+        self._hangcheck = QTimer(self)
-            
+        self.connect(self._hangcheck, SIGNAL('timeout()'), self.hangcheck)
-            self.logger = logging.getLogger('Job #'+str(id))
+        self.start_time = time.time()
-            self.logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
+        self._hangcheck.start()
-            self.log_dest = cStringIO.StringIO()
-            handler = logging.StreamHandler(self.log_dest)
-            handler.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
-            handler.setFormatter(logging.Formatter('[%(levelname)s] %(filename)s:%(lineno)s: %(message)s'))
-            self.logger.addHandler(handler)
         
+    def hangcheck(self):
+        if not (self.fetcher.isFinished() or time.time() - self.start_time > 75):
+            return
+        self._hangcheck.stop()
         try:
-                books = create_books(opts, args, self.logger, self.timeout)
+            if self.fetcher.isRunning():
-            except ISBNDBError, err:
+                error_dialog(self, _('Could not find metadata'),
-                error_dialog(self, _('Error fetching metadata'), str(err)).exec_()
+                             _('The metadata download seems to have stalled. '
+                               'Try again later.')).exec_()
+                self.fetcher.terminate()
+                return
+            self.model = Matches(self.fetcher.results)
+            warnings = [(x[0], unicode(x[1])) for x in \
+                            self.fetcher.exceptions if x[1] is not None]
+            if warnings:
+                warnings='<br>'.join(['<b>%s</b>: %s'%(name, exc) for name,exc in warnings])
+                warning_dialog(self, _('Warning'),
+                               '<p>'+_('Could not fetch metadata from:')+\
+                               '<br><br>'+warnings+'</p>').exec_()
+            if self.model.rowCount() < 1:
+                info_dialog(self, _('No metadata found'),
+                     _('No metadata found, try adjusting the title and author '
+                       'or the ISBN key.')).exec_()
+                self.reject()
                 return
             
-            self.model = Matches(books)
-            if self.model.rowCount() < 1:
-                info_dialog(self, _('No metadata found'), _('No metadata found, try adjusting the title and author or the ISBN key.')).exec_()
-                self.reject()
-            
             self.matches.setModel(self.model)
-            QObject.connect(self.matches.selectionModel(), SIGNAL('currentRowChanged(QModelIndex, QModelIndex)'),
+            QObject.connect(self.matches.selectionModel(), 
+                        SIGNAL('currentRowChanged(QModelIndex, QModelIndex)'),
                         self.show_summary)
             self.model.reset()
             self.matches.selectionModel().select(self.model.index(0, 0), 
@@ -155,7 +213,7 @@ class FetchMetadata(QDialog, Ui_FetchMetadata):
             self.fetch.setEnabled(True)
             self.unsetCursor()
             self.matches.resizeColumnsToContents()
-        
+            self.pi.stop()
             
         
     def selected_book(self):

src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/fetch_metadata.ui

@@ -23,20 +23,13 @@
    <item>
     <widget class="QLabel" name="tlabel" >
      <property name="text" >
-      <string>Fetching metadata for &lt;b>%1&lt;/b></string>
+      <string>&lt;p>calibre can find metadata for your books from two locations: &lt;b>Google Books&lt;/b> and &lt;b>isbndb.com&lt;/b>. &lt;p>To use isbndb.com you must sign up for a &lt;a href="http://www.isbndb.com">free account&lt;/a> and exter you access key below.</string>
      </property>
      <property name="alignment" >
       <set>Qt::AlignCenter</set>
      </property>
-    </widget>
+     <property name="wordWrap" >
-   </item>
+      <bool>true</bool>
-   <item>
-    <widget class="QLabel" name="label" >
-     <property name="text" >
-      <string>Sign up for a free account from &lt;a href="http://www.isbndb.com">ISBNdb.com&lt;/a> to get an access key.</string>
-     </property>
-     <property name="alignment" >
-      <set>Qt::AlignCenter</set>
      </property>
      <property name="openExternalLinks" >
       <bool>true</bool>

src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/scheduler.py

@@ -219,6 +219,8 @@ class RecipeModel(QAbstractItemModel, SearchQueryParser):
                 return QVariant(category + ' [%d]'%num)
             elif role == Qt.FontRole:
                 return self.bold_font
+            elif role == Qt.ForegroundRole and category == _('Scheduled'):
+                return QVariant(QColor(0, 255, 0))
         return NONE
     
     def update_recipe_schedule(self, recipe):

src/calibre/gui2/library.py

@@ -823,7 +823,7 @@ class DeviceBooksModel(BooksModel):
 
 
     def search(self, text, refinement, reset=True):
-        if not text:
+        if not text or not text.strip():
             self.map = list(range(len(self.db)))
         else:
             matches = self.search_engine.parse(text)

src/calibre/gui2/viewer/main.py

@@ -90,7 +90,6 @@ class ProgressIndicator(QWidget):
         
     def stop(self):
         if self.movie.state() == self.movie.Running:
-            #self.movie.jumpToFrame(0)
             self.movie.setPaused(True)
             self.setVisible(False)
 

src/calibre/linux.py

@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ entry_points = {
                              'lrf2lrs   = calibre.ebooks.lrf.lrfparser:main',
                              'lrs2lrf   = calibre.ebooks.lrf.lrs.convert_from:main',
                              'pdfreflow = calibre.ebooks.lrf.pdf.reflow:main',
-                             'isbndb    = calibre.ebooks.metadata.isbndb:main',
                              'librarything = calibre.ebooks.metadata.library_thing:main',
                              'mobi2oeb  = calibre.ebooks.mobi.reader:main',
                              'oeb2mobi  = calibre.ebooks.mobi.writer:main',
@@ -69,7 +68,7 @@ entry_points = {
                              'calibre-parallel   = calibre.parallel:main',
                              'calibre-customize  = calibre.customize.ui:main',                             
 			                 'pdftrim = calibre.ebooks.pdf.pdftrim:main' ,
-                             'google-books = calibre.ebooks.metadata.google_books:main',
+                             'fetch-ebook-metadata = calibre.ebooks.metadata.fetch:main',
                            ],
         'gui_scripts'    : [
                             __appname__+' = calibre.gui2.main:main',
@@ -196,9 +195,9 @@ def setup_completion(fatal_errors):
         from calibre.ebooks.lit.from_any import option_parser as any2lit
         from calibre.ebooks.epub.from_comic import option_parser as comic2epub
         from calibre.ebooks.mobi.from_any import option_parser as any2mobi
+        from calibre.ebooks.metadata.fetch import option_parser as fem_op
         from calibre.ebooks.mobi.writer import option_parser as oeb2mobi
         from calibre.gui2.main import option_parser as guiop
-        from calibre.ebooks.metadata.google_books import option_parser as gbop
         any_formats = ['epub', 'htm', 'html', 'xhtml', 'xhtm', 'rar', 'zip',
              'txt', 'lit', 'rtf', 'pdf', 'prc', 'mobi', 'fb2', 'odt'] 
         f = open_file('/etc/bash_completion.d/libprs500')
@@ -246,7 +245,7 @@ def setup_completion(fatal_errors):
         f.write(opts_and_words('feeds2lrf', feeds2lrf, feed_titles))
         f.write(opts_and_words('feeds2epub', feeds2epub, feed_titles))
         f.write(opts_and_words('feeds2mobi', feeds2mobi, feed_titles))
-        f.write(opts_and_words('google-books', gbop, []))
+        f.write(opts_and_words('fetch-ebook-metadata', fem_op, []))
         f.write(opts_and_exts('html2epub', html2epub, ['html', 'htm', 'xhtm', 'xhtml', 'opf']))
         f.write(opts_and_exts('html2oeb', html2oeb, ['html', 'htm', 'xhtm', 'xhtml']))
         f.write(opts_and_exts('odt2oeb', odt2oeb, ['odt']))