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[Kovid Goyal <kovid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

This is a heads up about the new metadata download architecture that will be released in calibre 0.8. The API is now complete and I have migrated all the plugins I manage to the new architecture. If you maintain plugins of your own, then now is the time to migrate them. The 0.8 release is still at least a couple of weeks away.

Learn how to run calibre with the new code here: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=129757

All the new code lives in calibre.ebooks.metadata.sources.*

A good place to start is to read the extensive comments in the Source class defined in calibre.ebooks.metadata.sources.base and then look at a few of the builtin plugins. The google plugin is probably the simplest. The Open Library plugin only downloads covers. The Amazon plugin is the most complex, with multi-threading for performance. 

If you need help/clarification, feel free to ask.

Kovid.

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Dr. Kovid Goyal 
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http://calibre-ebook.com
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