bookmeta: Cover::guessed says the file left the choice open — a Kindle
book's first image record, or an EPUB image picked because its name says
cover — so a caller with a register to ask can prefer that. A cover the
file names is never a guess. Cover::extension matches bibfetch's.
bibfetch: Open Library answers 403 to more than a hundred covers by ISBN
in five minutes from one address. That is now Error::Limited, not
Unreachable: the other form of the ISBN is not asked, the cover id still
is, since those are not limited, and the CLI exits 75. Covers asked by
ISBN are kept three seconds apart across the process (Covers::pace), which
stays under the limit however long a run goes. A deadline too long to add
to the clock no longer panics; it is no deadline.
bindings: fetch_cover and search_title for Python, and catena.Limited,
which fetch_identifier raises too when a register refuses for being asked
too often.
corpus-core: exit 75, a service refused for now.
A book that arrives as a file often has no identifier to ask about, only
a title and perhaps a name. `bibfetch search --title T [--author A]
[--limit N]` asks Open Library's index which books it has under those,
and Google Books only when Open Library has nothing, and prints one
record per candidate in the order the register gave them. From Rust,
`bibfetch::search(&agent, title, author, limit, attempts)`.
Each candidate is one edition. The index answers with works and, asked
for `editions.*`, names the edition of each that best matches; the ISBN,
publisher, language, year and cover come from that edition, the title,
authors, subjects and length from the work. The work's own ISBN list
mixes editions: the first War and Peace work lists four, while the
edition matched is a 1917 printing with none.
`id` is the first ISBN whose check digit agrees, in thirteen digits,
thirteen-digit entries taken first. A candidate with none is named by
the register's key: `olid` (OL…M for the edition, OL…W for the work when
no edition was named) or `googlebooks` (a volume id). Google's `OTHER`
shelfmarks are never read as ISBNs.
`cover_id` keeps the meaning it has in a lookup record: the edition's
own first cover, taken from `editions.cover_i` and only when the record
names that edition. The work's `cover_i` and `cover_edition_key` are not
asked for. A work with no edition named, and every Google Books
candidate, has none.
Open Library having nothing stands when Google Books is down; both down
is exit 69. Exit 0 a candidate, 1 none, 65 an empty title.
The retrying GET that lookups use is now `ask::get`, shared by both, and
no longer sleeps after its last attempt.
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