Bug 397104

Summary: isbndb search broken
Product: [Applications] KBibTeX Reporter: Volker Fröhlich <volker27>
Component: Network/online searchAssignee: Thomas Fischer <fischer>
Status: CLOSED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 0.7   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Volker Fröhlich 2018-08-02 19:56:22 UTC
Apparently the XML API is no more. https://isbndb.com/apidocs describes their current API.
Comment 1 Thomas Fischer 2018-08-05 11:09:23 UTC
Yes, there is a new API, but it costs money to access the database.
Unless someone is paying for the access, I won't develop/update the ISBNdb search. Even if so, either the API key must be shipped with KBibTeX for anyone to use or every interested user must acquire his/her own API key and pay for it.
Comment 2 Volker Fröhlich 2018-08-05 22:03:21 UTC
Could you simply remove it then?
Comment 3 Thomas Fischer 2018-08-06 09:48:45 UTC
(In reply to Volker Fröhlich from comment #2)
> Could you simply remove it then?
It has been removed as of commit a0971a1bb3bdd0405745609ea88b282a45109cc7

The essential change is the removal of the addEngine(..) invocation for OnlineSearchIsbnDB.
As I do no longer maintain version 0.4.1, you would have to edit the source code yourself and recompile/package KBibTeX. Please contact the Debian folks on how to do that for Debian.

Still, I would recommend to upgrade to a newer version of KBibTeX. Even if you are still using KDE4, the 0.7.x series was the last to be release for this KDE version. I may be open to fix bugs there.
Comment 4 Volker Fröhlich 2018-08-06 20:30:24 UTC
Hm? I didn't say 0.4 anywhere.
Comment 5 Volker Fröhlich 2018-08-06 20:42:52 UTC
Anyway, I can see that you already disabled it in May. Thanks!