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Shiroi Hane
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Roundup of current issues with the scrapers. Let me know if I have missed anything
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Right Stuf Anime
Barnes and Noble
Amazon
BookWalker
Rakuten
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Shiroi Hane
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I don't know if I've prodded the hornets nest too much, but since posting I've been getting consistent "Could not fetch page" errors when trying to pull from Amazon for print books (and I've tried it from Daru, Mayuri, Ruka and Kurisu)
--edit-- Affects discs also. Updated top post. |
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Shiroi Hane
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The "Could not fetch page" issue appears to have been resolved or cleared itself.
--edit-- Although I have a wonderful new problem with Amazon itself since yesterday; now if I search amazon.com for kindle books by name, author or even eISBN I get no results - however if I get the ASIN via the API or just from the UK store and visit the page directly, then the page actually is there. It's possible the Amazon scraper has been fixed for eBooks now as well, but confirming that will take longer than it ought to now I need to go through hoops. --edit-- Every Amazon link I've tried adding to existing eBook releases has worked so far, however when trying to create a release with the wizard I am getting "No UPC or ISBN was found at the URL(s) above", however the ISBN is definitely present in the Amazon API (under Items/Item/ItemAttributes/EISBN). I will leave this as an example rather than adding manually: Manga#16928 eBook vol. 7 Details: https://www.hachettebookgroup.biz/titles/tsuyoshi-watanabe/dragons-rioting-vol-7/9780316470933/ Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N0GITHY |
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Shiroi Hane
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I knew it was too good to be true. First example of "Could not find ASIN in that page" for today:
release#32971, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B019IAA69W What makes this different to the ones that are working, I don't know. |
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bglassbrook
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Could it be the short URL you are trying to add it by? Not sure if it was timing, but it worked using the full address (though for some reason it is missing price & availability.) Is B&N down for everything again, or just books? Videos do seem to have a better than hair-rending chance of getting accepted. |
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Shiroi Hane
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I think I used the full URL from the search and cut it down just for posting here.
I've mainly been doing books and the latest disc solicitations that aren't listed on B&N yet, so I'm not certain how badly disc releases are affected (I'm sure I did check a few though and got the same error). --edit-- Actually, I may have just used the short Amazon URL. Yen Press kindle books weren't coming up when I was searching on amazon.com so I took to searching for ISBN via the API scratchpad and appending the ASIN to the URL manually. I do remember times in the past where copying the ANN affiliate link from another release and changing the ASIN has caused the link to be recognised for some reason so this might be something similar. |
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Shiroi Hane
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So, addendum: I've just been through the whole of animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/releases.php?format=ebook adding Amazon links (where they exist) to everything and it worked every time, using the short link. I'll will strike out the issue for now.
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Shiroi Hane
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I believe the RightStuff scaper is fixed so I have struck out all the problems. I have added one however, in that it does not pick up on combos as being combos (the one I tried was picked up as a DVD). I need to find a BD release to see if those are being picked up OK, but I don't have one immediately to hand. The combo problem is a longstanding one I believe affects all retailers, but I need to find examples to confirm.
I obviously need to re-check the other listed bugs to see if any of those have been fixed also. |
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Shiroi Hane
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When attempting to add a Rakuten page (e.g. https://www.rakuten.com/prod/304260489.html for release#31639) it is returning "This doesn't appear to be a valid page; could not find urlcode,refcode"
Existing listings (e.g. release#30771) are also now returning the same errors. Adding to list. --edit-- Confirmed for discs as well, e.g. https://www.rakuten.com/prod/307566128.html for release#33440. |
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Shiroi Hane
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Also, the B&N scraper does appear to be working now (in fact, I think it is picking up pages and adding them automatically itself before I can test it) but it is not pulling prices ("could not extract price from page") and appears to be treating everything as out of stock (e.g. it says out of stock for release#31971 while the B&N site says "Get it by Friday, March 24")
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Shiroi Hane
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I've made a few new additions and tweaks to the active list.
Also however, and these are little things that we can't easily work around but which really annoy me... Yen Press assigns age ratings like "13 & up". B&N always interprets that as "13-18", as if the only books that can be read by adults are ones that are rated 18+ (e.g. Yen vs B&N) If Yen Press hasn't published a synopsis yet, they will repeat the one from an earlier volume with the volume number appended. If no description is available yet I prefer to leave it blank until it is, but because the retailers pick up these placeholder descriptions the system automatically re-inserts them as soon as I remove them (e.g., at time of typing, release#33567) |
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Shiroi Hane
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B&N price scraper is working now. Not sure about stock status?
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Shiroi Hane
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Amazon returning "Could not fetch page" for both books and ebooks (unsure about video products). See also animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3069867
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stevek504
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I just tried adding Kuma Miko volume 1 release and as you say it allowed me to add the release but pricing and stock status does not appear to flow thru. I also tried Amazon (Could not fetch page) and Right Stuf (This doesn't appear to be a valid page; could not find urlcode,refcode) with no luck. The links I used: https://www.rightstufanime.com/Kuma-Miko-Girl-Meets-Bear-Manga-Volume-1 https://www.amazon.com/Kuma-Miko-Girl-Meets-Bear/dp/1935548530/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1500481977&sr=8-2&keywords=kuma+miko |
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BigOnAnime
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Amazon, RightStuf, and DVDEmpire aren't retrieving stock status or the latest price. Also mysteriously many entries now have missing covers when they had them before.
release#31461 release#33792 release#31770 -Volume number needs to be changed to a "2" BTW. I also get "Could not fetch page" errors when using RightStuf and Amazon links to add releases, a pretty big problem given the number of releases currently missing, old and new. |
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