diff --git a/scraper/service.js b/scraper/service.js
index d741b0d..c6aef1b 100644
--- a/scraper/service.js
+++ b/scraper/service.js
@@ -549,6 +549,7 @@ class ScraperService {
       ...found.info, id: crypto.randomUUID(), seriesId: found.info.id, kind: input.inspect === true ? 'inspection' : 'download',
       title: String(input.title || found.info.title).trim().slice(0, 200),
       metadataSearch: String(input.metadataSearch || input.title || found.info.title).trim().slice(0, 200),
+      metadataSearchExplicit: !!String(input.metadataSearch || '').trim(),
       scope, scopeLabel: scopeLabel(scope), existingPolicy: policy,
       ...(input.libraryMangaId ? { libraryMangaId: String(input.libraryMangaId) } : {}),
       status: 'queued', order: this.state.queue.length, added: new Date().toISOString(),
@@ -605,6 +606,18 @@ class ScraperService {
       if (action === 'confirm') {
         if (item.status !== 'ready' || item.kind !== 'inspection') throw new Error('Inspect the source first');
         item.confirmedSourceTitle = item.sourceTitle;
+        // Prefer the inspected canonical title when metadata lookup was derived
+        // from the URL/title fallback. Keep an explicitly supplied search term.
+        const canonicalTitle = String(item.sourceTitle || '').trim();
+        const search = String(item.metadataSearch || '').trim();
+        const seriesId = String(item.seriesId || '').trim();
+        const fallbackSearch = !item.metadataSearchExplicit
+          && (!search || search === seriesId || search === String(item.title || '').trim());
+        if (canonicalTitle && fallbackSearch) {
+          item.metadataSearch = canonicalTitle;
+          item.metadataSearchExplicit = true;
+        }
+        if (canonicalTitle && String(item.title || '') === String(item.seriesId || '')) item.title = canonicalTitle;
         item.kind = 'download';
       } else {
         if (!['unavailable', 'quarantined', 'complete', 'ready'].includes(item.status)) throw new Error('Only inactive finished, unavailable or quarantined jobs can be inspected again');
diff --git a/scraper/test/queue-inspection.test.js b/scraper/test/queue-inspection.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..edf04ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scraper/test/queue-inspection.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+'use strict';
+
+const test = require('node:test');
+const assert = require('node:assert/strict');
+const { ScraperService } = require('../service');
+
+async function confirm(item) {
+  const service = Object.create(ScraperService.prototype);
+  service.state = { queue: [item], currentIds: {}, sourcePaused: {} };
+  service.event = async () => {};
+  await service.control('confirm', item.id);
+  return item;
+}
+
+test('confirming an inspection uses the canonical title for automatic metadata lookup', async () => {
+  const item = await confirm({ id: 'job', seriesId: '01J76XYFHVMSQVDJPQ42TN2XYN',
+    title: '01J76XYFHVMSQVDJPQ42TN2XYN', metadataSearch: '01J76XYFHVMSQVDJPQ42TN2XYN',
+    sourceTitle: 'The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System', kind: 'inspection', status: 'ready' });
+  assert.equal(item.title, item.sourceTitle);
+  assert.equal(item.metadataSearch, item.sourceTitle);
+  assert.equal(item.metadataSearchExplicit, true);
+  assert.equal(item.kind, 'download');
+});
+
+test('confirming an inspection preserves an explicitly supplied metadata search', async () => {
+  const item = await confirm({ id: 'job', seriesId: 'series-id', title: 'Heavy Knight',
+    metadataSearch: 'Heavy Knight (Romanized Title)', metadataSearchExplicit: true,
+    sourceTitle: 'The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System', kind: 'inspection', status: 'ready' });
+  assert.equal(item.metadataSearch, 'Heavy Knight (Romanized Title)');
+  assert.equal(item.title, 'Heavy Knight');
+});
+
+test('legacy automatic title searches are replaced with the inspected canonical title', async () => {
+  const item = await confirm({ id: 'job', seriesId: 'series-id', title: 'heavy-knight-slug',
+    metadataSearch: 'heavy-knight-slug', sourceTitle: 'The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System',
+    kind: 'inspection', status: 'ready' });
+  assert.equal(item.metadataSearch, item.sourceTitle);
+});