[GUI Plugin] FanFictionDownLoader

[firefoxxy]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

@firefoxxy and @tykobrian,

It's working fine for me.

Make sure that you have the 'Update Calibre cover from ebook' option turned on.

Hi again,

thank you for your quick reply. I still only get the covers to show up inside of the ebook.

Has this perhaps something to do with the options on the generate cover tab? There are three checkboxes and I have none of them activated.

Should I only choose the option for the cover in the personal.ini OR in the general tab (both are set to allow covers)?

Thanks again in advance for any hints.

[JimmXinu]

When setting bool custom columns, look for t/true/yes/y/1 and f/false/no/n/0 in any case and set true and false accordingly.

UPDATE Feb 24, 2014 - Remove obsolete beta versions

[JimmXinu]

This test version is a bit more 'test' than usual.

It implements a feature to count how many ffnet stories you're trying to download and adjusts the sleep time between requests higher for more and lower for less from a couple seconds with just 1 to a max of 5 seconds with 10 or more.

The default sleep time for the background processing remains 5 seconds between requests.

This feature is about reducing the 'Fetching metadata' step for people doing small numbers of downloads.

UPDATE Feb 24, 2014 - Remove obsolete beta versions

[FaceDeer]

Neat, I'll try this out. But I've set my ff.net sleep time to 30 seconds by default anyway, since I don't generally care how long it takes to download stuff - I set it running when I'm about to go do something away from the computer, and it's done when I get back. Will this override that?

[JimmXinu]

Yes, for the initial meta data collection. Not for the background processing.

This is a first stab at it, if it works it will be smarter in future.

[JimmXinu]

Attached is another test version where the reduction in metadata fetch sleep is configurable. Keep in mind that this applies only to fanfiction.net downloads.

[www.fanfiction.net]

## fanfiction.net is blocking people more aggressively.  If you
## download fewer stories less often you can likely get by with
## reducing this sleep.
slow_down_sleep_time:4

## ffnet is sensitive to too many hits.  Users are sensitive to long
## waits during the initial metadata collection in the foreground.
## When used, these settings will speed up metadata downloads in the
## foreground linearly.
tweak_fg_sleep:true
min_fg_sleep:1.0
max_fg_sleep:4.0
max_fg_sleep_at_downloads: 10

UPDATE Feb 24, 2014 - Remove obsolete beta versions

[JimmXinu]

Version 1.8.12 - 24 Feb 2014

• Fixes for FimFiction change, thanks FaceDeer.
  
• Set Boolean custom columns from custom_columns_settings, looking for true/t/yes/y/1 vs false/f/no/n/0.
  
• Add a feature to reduce sleep between ffnet requests in initial metadata collection for small download sets.
  
• Make ffnet look-for-next chapter feature optional and default to off.

[jesterod]

i just updated and i get an error when trying to update

calibre, version 1.25.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>KeyError</b>:u'site'

calibre 1.25 Portable isfrozen: True is64bit: False
Windows-XP-5.1.2600-SP3 Windows ('32bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', 'XP', '5.1.2600')
Python 2.7.5
Windows: ('XP', '5.1.2600', 'SP3', 'Uniprocessor Free')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre_plugins.fanfictiondownloader_plugin.dialo gs", line 607, in do_loop
File "calibre_plugins.fanfictiondownloader_plugin.dialo gs", line 614, in do_when_finished
File "calibre_plugins.fanfictiondownloader_plugin.ffdl_ plugin", line 699, in update_dialog_finish
File "calibre_plugins.fanfictiondownloader_plugin.ffdl_ plugin", line 722, in prep_downloads
File "calibre_plugins.fanfictiondownloader_plugin.ffdl_ plugin", line 722, in <lambda>
KeyError: u'site'

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by jesterod

i just updated and i get an error when trying to update

What were you trying to update?

[jesterod]

i ment i updated the plugin and when i tried to update the stories with it i got that error

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by jesterod

i ment i updated the plugin and when i tried to update the stories with it i got that error

What story were you updating that gave the error? If I don't know how the error happened, it's hard to fix.

[jesterod]

317 different stories.... my in-progress list

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by jesterod

317 different stories.... my in-progress list

And people wonder why ffnet has started throttling.

[jesterod]

there not all on ff.net alot are on other sites and the addon worked before the update

[jesterod]

i figured it out there's 2 stories in there that had no url and for some reason that messed it up when it didn't before