fugary/calibre-douban
Calibre new douban metadata source plugin. Douban no longer provides book APIs to the public, so it can only use web crawling to obtain data. This is a calibre Douban plugin based on web crawling. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
63/100
- Activity 51
- Release rhythm 56
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 2
- age_days: 1725
- days_rel: 298
- days_push: 298
- n_releases_24m: 4
Adoption not part of the score
1357 stars · 50 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
A Calibre metadata source plugin that fetches book metadata from Douban by crawling book.douban.com web pages, since Douban no longer offers a public book API. It is packaged as a zip plugin installable in the desktop Calibre application.
Use cases
- download douban book metadata in calibre
- scrape douban book info for ebooks
- fill in book covers and descriptions in calibre
- manage ebook library metadata from douban
- replace deprecated douban book api in calibre
When to choose
- you use desktop Calibre and want Douban metadata for Chinese books
- Douban's official API is unavailable and you need web-crawled metadata
- you want a free, actively maintained Calibre plugin
When to avoid
- you need metadata sources other than Douban
- you only use calibre-web rather than desktop Calibre
- scraping Douban violates your usage policies or the site blocks crawlers
Facets
plugin · maturity active
web-scraping plugin-system developer-tools files python cross-platform calibre ebook-metadata douban calibre-plugin book-cataloging metadata automation desktop
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/fugary/calibre-douban · fetched 2026-08-28 · f33368030900
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| fugary/calibre-douban | main | 63 |
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