Open holta opened 1 month ago
Above questions are based on the assumption Calibre-Web metadata can or should be leveraged to accommodate key/value pairs metadata input/integration for enhancement or customization purpose. I am inquiring about the opposite. What if we want to export existing metadata for external use? Should a tool be used to parse the data on book pages or should an additional route be created to output key/values pairs?
key/value pairs metadata input/integration for enhancement or customization purpose
Or for very basic search / categorization / archiving — just for starters — we need to know (and document!) current technical limits of Calibre-Web's key/value pairs & tags.
Programmatically scraping metadata from (or to) other sources is probably a secondary question for later!?
@deldesir please post IIAB Calibre-Web Metadata realities to https://github.com/iiab/calibre-web/wiki at minimum:
Calibre-Web supports key/value pairs "Identifiers" and "Tags". Both are visible in the standard "Edit Metadata" web interface (screenshot below) for any book or video. To enable real-world uses, let's answer the questions below, to make evolving capabilities + limitations (of Calibre-Web metadata) much more precise: