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Hi all! Hope everyone had a fun weekend.
I absolutely LOVE the FLAG Webservice. It makes downloading my fics sooooo much easier. However, I've been desperately trying to figure out how to enter the ff.net recipe into calibre and for the life of me can't. LOL - I'm not in the least bit computer savvy but I can follow clear directions. Can anyone point me to some detailed instructions? I've tried Googling and haven't had much success. I'm running Calibre on a Mac and would prefer to run FLAG in that operating system. However, I do have access to virtual PC software and will install it if necessary. I apologize for being such a newbie to all of this. I truly love the program and would appreciate the help if anyone has the patience and time. If not, no worries. I'll just continue with the FLAG Webservice. Quick question -- Is anyone else having problems connecting to webservice this morning? I keep getting the following message: 'Safari can’t open the page “http://flag.erayd.net/getstory.php” because it can’t find the server “flag.erayd.net”.' |
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The code posted in this thread are not Calibre-compatible recipes. They are PHP scripts for creating/downloading printable HTML or ebook versions of fanfics.
You can find a Calibre recipe for FanFiction.Net here. Read the notes for recipe-specific instructions/tips. Refer to the Calibre online manual for instructions on how to add custom recipes. One caveat, though, is the recipe downloads a whole bunch of fanfics at the same time and saves them as one "omnibus"/collection file. Unfortunately, the current version of Calibre makes it difficult to get it to download files one at a time. Kovid has plans of creating a mechanism to download individual files in the future, but how soon he'll be able to implement it is unknown. For getting individual HTML files which you can then convert to ebook format using Calibre, you can use Code:
http://utterlyinsane.org/fflag/print.php?storyid=1234567 I know I promised a guide and clean/updated scripts and I'm really sorry I still haven't gotten to it. I just got hooked on watching Heroes and I'm currently distracted by reading Sylar/Elle fanfiction (yes, I'm twisted). I'm running out of fics to read so maybe I'll finally be able to get to working on the scripts this weekend. As for Mac... I tried it (Hackintosh, OSX 10.5.5) and I found Linux (Kubuntu) easier to use. Sorry, won't be able to help in that area, aside from the Calibre recipe which should be universal. |
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I have to admit that I much prefer the html/PHP version of Flag. It's much cleaner and more manageable. Thanks for giving the utterlyinsane link for individual HTML download when the other down. It's greatly appreciated. I really do love this program and it's possibilities. I definitely need to figure out how to set this puppy up. Quote:
Is there any specific type of server? I'd only be using it for this specific task so if there's a basic type to set up, just give me the heads up and I'll start googling. Have a fun night!! |
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I love fan fiction so this has been pretty much a god send for me however the web service seems to have stopped working. I'm getting a 404 for every story id I try.
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Temporary measure, try using:
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Thanks for this and for stating the "obvious" about the story ID. I've learned to do some things on the computer, but more by memorizing steps than really understanding it. Many easy instructions are beyond me!
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Wow, I tried this on a really long story with many parts and it worked. One file instead of many. Thanks! Now I can just put it in Sony format using Calibre--no TOC formatting required. Cool.
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Gah, looks like FFnet might have changed things again, numerous storyid's I try now are only pulling down a few chapters with some/most chapters just pulling down the title of the chapter but no body.
It's weird because some of the chapters are ok. Anybody have any ideas? |
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Here's two quick ones, the first is a huge fic (nearly 900,000 words) the second's a fair bit smaller...
2697521 this one misses chapter 5 to 8 iirc and then 11 onwards minus the odd chapter which it does pull down. 4605681 this one is only missing a few chapters 7, 8 & 9 but pulls down the last chapter. The weird thing is it's not happening on all fics, as far as I can see it's random but as I tend to only read HP or PERN from FF I might have missed a pattern if there is one. Last edited by Mnementh; 07-07-2009 at 11:42 PM. Reason: typo |
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You know just as you were posting that I re-read my post and saw the length and thought I'd read something about possible story length issues I was about to go re-reading the whole thread lol.
I'll try that and see if it works thanks. |
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