[GUI Plugin] FanFictionDownLoader

[kneon]

Hi,

I have not been able to update or even download new from Fanfic.com for a few days. I am updated on all updates on Calibre

Thank you


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Title
Author
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URL

Bad
Gardenia
Judy1998
<urlopen error [Errno 10060] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond>
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9855608/1/

[DawnB2]

I've been using FFDL for a few months. At random times when I use the Update if New Chapters it will download the newest chapters & for some unknown reason the existing chapters will become blank. I don't get an error & it happens entirely random. I have download chapters for different stories fine 4 times then the 5th will have this problem. Its not specific stories either. I can download a new chapter for 1 story fine, then the next time it will blank out old chapters, then the next time it will be fine again etc...

I only download from FanFiction.net & only 1 story at a time/per day.

Today I downloaded Chapter 7 for a story & when I opened the epub chapters 1-6 were now blank. I had to re-download the whole story again.

Is there anyway to fix this issue? I'd rather not have to download the whole story each time a chapter is added.

[Firedancer885]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Attached is a test version that adds an additional option on the Generate Cover page to call Polish to inject/update the cover inside the ebook, but only for EPUBs.

Thank you very much I had to manually call polish books every time I downloaded new books and it always popped up the options window. This is much much better.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by DawnB2

I've been using FFDL for a few months. At random times when I use the Update if New Chapters it will download the newest chapters & for some unknown reason the existing chapters will become blank. I don't get an error & it happens entirely random. I have download chapters for different stories fine 4 times then the 5th will have this problem. Its not specific stories either. I can download a new chapter for 1 story fine, then the next time it will blank out old chapters, then the next time it will be fine again etc...

I only download from FanFiction.net & only 1 story at a time/per day.

Today I downloaded Chapter 7 for a story & when I opened the epub chapters 1-6 were now blank. I had to re-download the whole story again.

Is there anyway to fix this issue? I'd rather not have to download the whole story each time a chapter is added.

That's rather odd. Are you doing anything to the epubs in between? Converting, Polishing, editing? Have you customized your CSS or HTML in FFDL's personal.ini?

There are a few things you could do to help figure this out.

Next time you go to do updates, run calibre from a command line as "calibre-debug -g", then after you see this problem again, copy the debug output from the command line window and post it here.

It would be helpful for me to see one of the epubs with blank chapters. Next time it happens, please save the epub and post it here or some where else I can see it.

It would be even more helpful for me to see the epub before the problem happens, too. But to do that, you'd have to save a copy before updating every time.

[uten]

Having problems with getting fanfiction.net to use their 'covers'.

I added this to personal.ini

[www.fanfiction.net]
never_make_cover: false

What other settings need to be ticked/unticked? No matter what, I'm getting a cover that is just the title and summary text.

Thanks.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by uten

Having problems with getting fanfiction.net to use their 'covers'.

I added this to personal.ini

[www.fanfiction.net]
never_make_cover: false

Looks like that's broken right now. The attached version fixes it.

You also need to check "Include images in EPUBs" on the FFDL Basic tab or add the equivalent lines in personal.ini (see the tooltip).

UPDATE Feb 16, 2014 - Remove obsolete beta versions

[uten]

Thanks for the fix. It works great now!

[Eternal Link]

i can no longer download anything from fanfiction.net, i have the latest release and everything, could you please help me?


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Title
Author
Comment
URL
Bad
Unknown
Unknown
<urlopen error [Errno 10060] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond>
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6035532/1/

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Eternal Link

i can no longer download anything from fanfiction.net, i have the latest release and everything, could you please help me?

Lots of people have been asking that lately. I've made an FAQ for this issue. It says:

Why am I having errors downloading from fanfiction.net?

The site fanfiction.net has apparently implemented a throttling system that blocks requests from users who make too many hits to their servers. The value of 'too many' is not known, but appears to be around 12-15 downloads in short period of time.

Adding slow_down_sleep_time in your personal.ini for fanfiction.net can help keep you from being blocked at the expensive of slower downloads. We don't know anyway to get unblocked but to wait.

[fanfiction.net]
slow_down_sleep_time:2

The next version is going to contain a longer value for slow_down_sleep_time for fanfiction.net by default.

[Eternal Link]

im sorry to be posting again, but i tried your suggestion and it downloaded the metadata but after 50 minutes on the only book i wanted to download it failed again, this is the error,
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Author
Comment
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Souls Abound
robst
<urlopen error [Errno 110] Connection timed out>
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6035532/1/
sorry if i am being a nusiance

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Eternal Link

im sorry to be posting again, but i tried your suggestion and it downloaded the metadata but after 50 minutes on the only book i wanted to download it failed again, this is the error,

This isn't a quick fix. Once ffnet is blocking you, it will take an unknown length of time (possibly days) before you are unblocked.

The additional sleep time is to keep you from getting blocked in the first place.

[Eternal Link]

thanks for the info, ill wait a few days then try again, until then

[tykobrian]

I'm sorry if this has been discussed before but how can I download the original book covers along with the story from the site fanfiction.net? So far only the epub downloads but no cover page.

PS: I have the generate cover plugin installed

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by tykobrian

I'm sorry if this has been discussed before but how can I download the original book covers along with the story from the site fanfiction.net? So far only the epub downloads but no cover page.

PS: I have the generate cover plugin installed

Well, if you'd read up the page a bit, you'd have found this posting that explains it.

Generate Cover doesn't matter for downloaded covers.

FYI, I plan to release a new version with that fix today if you don't want to figure out the manual plugin install.

[tykobrian]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Well, if you'd read up the page a bit, you'd have found this posting that explains it.

Generate Cover doesn't matter for downloaded covers.

FYI, I plan to release a new version with that fix today if you don't want to figure out the manual plugin install.

Thanks for the help. I entered the lines in persona.ini and now a cover is provided with the ebook. But the thing is it's a custom cover, not the cover provided in the ffn site with the story. Please see the attached image.

Is it possible to download the original book cover which is provided in the site (ffn)using this plugin? I remember the site flagfic could attach the original cover back when they were allowed to download from ffn. Donno if they used this plugin though.