/calibre-douban

Douban Metadata Source for Calibre

Primary LanguagePythonGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

About this project

Calibre used to offer an official douban plugin to fetch the book metadata from douban.com. However, the author of Calibre chooses to not maintain it any more. So I decide to maintain my own branch.

DISCLAIMER

In order to work functionally, this project requires a valid API key. The project itself does not provide any API key and does not recommend to share any API key in any method. Please use your own API key or contact bd-team@douban.com for authorized access.

为了正常工作,本项目需要有效的 API 密钥。本项目不提供任何 API 密钥,也不建议以任何方法共享任何 API 密钥。请使用您自己的 API 密钥或联系 bd-team@douban.com 获得授权访问。

How to install

(1) in Terminal.app or your prefer command line terminal

git clone https://github.com/jnozsc/calibre-douban
cd calibre-douban
make zip

You will be able to locate a douban.zip in the folder, please remember the path

(2) launch the calibre application

(3) launch the Prefernces page, click the Plugins icon

(4) click the Load plugin from file button, and choose douban.zip from step (1)

(5) after loading the plugin into calibre, select the plugin named 'Douban Books Reload', click the Customize plugin button, and input your API key

(6) enjoy