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:books: Web app for browsing, reading and downloading eBooks stored in a Calibre database
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Capabilities & Limitations of Calibre-Web Metadata #272

Open holta opened 1 week ago

holta commented 1 week ago

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:

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deldesir commented 5 days 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?

holta commented 5 days ago

key/value pairs metadata input/integration for enhancement or customization purpose

  1. 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.

  2. Programmatically scraping metadata from (or to) other sources is probably a secondary question for later!?