A calibre metadata source plugin for comicvine.com

Dependencies:

• pycomicvine (https://github.com/authmillenon/pycomicvine)
• Levenshtein (optional)

For convenience, a modified version of pycomicvine 0.9 is included in the distribution to make sure there are no external dependencies. This will only be loaded if the module is not found elsewhere in the system path.

Create a plugin zip file containing the files listed in MANIFEST and install.

On a Unix system this can be done using:

$ zip Comicvine -@ < MANIFEST
$ calibre-customize -a Comicvine.zip

The single command calibre-customize -b . from within the source directory will also work, but will include many unnecessary files.

Allows you to search comicvine for metadata for your comics and graphic novels stored in Calibre.

You will need an API Key to use this source

Get one at (http://www.comicvine.com/api/)

Once configured you can use this plugin from the GUI (download metadata) or from the fetch-ebook-metadata command.

Both of these methods will try all active metadata sources, and only return the most preferred result.

To return all comicvine matches from the command line you can search using:

$ calibre-debug -r Comicvine [t:title] [a:author] [i:type:id]

This will search for comics that match the given fields. Any spaces should be enclosed in quotes, e.g.:

$ calibre-debug -r Comicvine t:'The Invisibles #15' \
    a:'Grant Morrison'
Found: The Invisibles #15: She-Man, Part Three: Apocalipstick [1995-12-01 00:00:00]
Found: The Invisibles, Volume Two #15: The Philadelphia Experiment [1998-05-01 00:00:00]

or:

$ calibre-debug -r Comicvine i:comicvine:41736
Found: The Invisibles #15: She-Man, Part Three: Apocalipstick [1995-12-01 00:00:00]

$ calibre-debug -r Comicvine t:'Batman #12' i:comicvine-volume:42721
(0000) - 349621: Batman #12: Ghost in the Machine; [2012-08-08]

You can contribute by submitting issue tickets on GitHub (https://github.com/authmillenon/pycomicvine), including Pull Requests. You can test the comicvine plugin by calling:

calibre-debug -e __init__.py

Copyright (c) 2013 Russell Heilling

pycomicvine is Copyright (c) Martin Lenders