# 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.

Repository: https://github.com/fugary/calibre-douban
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/calibre-douban
Language: Python
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2025-11-08T09:55:56+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 63/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 51, release rhythm 56, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1725, "days_push": 298, "days_rel": 298, "gap_med": 2, "n_releases_24m": 4}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1357, forks 50 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:29.528032+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, plugin-system
- domain: developer-tools, files
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: calibre, ebook-metadata, douban, calibre-plugin, book-cataloging, metadata, automation, desktop

## Member repositories
- fugary/calibre-douban (main) score 63

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:29.528032+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:41:50.036897+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/fugary/calibre-douban (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:29.528032+00:00, sha f33368030900)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.