[GUI Plugin] FanFictionDownLoader

[Firedancer885]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

@Firedancer885 - I believe this version addresses the issue you found.

Mind you, it addresses it by cleaning up the HTML when it's downloaded in the first place. So existing epubs that already contain the same type of poor HTML may still have the same problem. But it should fix it moving forward.

Thanks.

[Firedancer885]

Jimm,

where can I find info about making FFDL only download specific chapters and not the whole story?

[Firedancer885]

Opps forgot to ask. Is there a way to make this kind of download permanent, so I don't have to remember to edit the download every time there is an update?

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Firedancer885

where can I find info about making FFDL only download specific chapters and not the whole story?

If you hover your mouse over the text box you enter URLs in for FFDL, the tooltip will tell you that you can limit chapters by adding [1,5] (for 1-5, for example) to the end of a URL:

http://www.fictionalley.org/authors/bexis/HPATFE.html[1,5]

(Currently, that only works for new or overwrite, not update.)

Originally Posted by Firedancer885

Opps forgot to ask. Is there a way to make this kind of download permanent, so I don't have to remember to edit the download every time there is an update?

For all stories, yes. See the Basic tab of FFDL config for 'Default If Story Already Exists'.

For that particular story only, no. But that's why I fixed it.

Jim

[Firedancer885]

How do I make it everything above a particular chapter number? I need all the chapters starting with ch 51.

[JimmXinu]

If you want a book containing only chapters 51 and up, use:

http://whatever.the.url.is/story[51,]

However, be aware that you will not be able to use the update feature if you have a partial book that doesn't start with chapter 1. Epub update uses the chapter count to determine when and what to update.

[skb]

Hi Jim,
I have an efiction site that I would like to be considered for inclusion in your plugin. I need to update the version of efic and reskin etc (plus moving to a new host) and then it should be ready. It's pretty vanilla (installation-wise - no custom bits) but is there anything I can do in the upgrade that would make your life easier?

Sue

[JimmXinu]

Hi Sue,

What would help the most would be to clearly identify the chapter text and each piece of metadata in the HTML, and to put all the story metadata on the story index page. (We frequently have to parse the author's page, too, to get all the metadata.)

Lengthy examples:

Spoiler:

IE, on each chapter page, instead of just:

<div>
(chapter text)
</div>

...make it something like:

<div class="chaptertext">
(chapter text)
</div>

On the chapter index page, instead of

<div>
<span class="label">Categories:</span> Harry Potter, Star Wars<br />
<span class="label">Genre:</span> Humor, Romance<br />
<span class="label">Word Count:</span> 12,234<br />
</div>

...make it something like:

<div>
<span class="label">Categories:</span> <span class="category">Harry Potter</span>, <span class="category">Star Wars</span><br />
<span class="label">Genre:</span> <span class="genre">Humor</span>, <span class="genre">Romance</span><br />
<span class="label">Word Count:</span> <span class="wordcount">12,234</span><br />
</div>

When categories/genres/warnings/whatever are already links to a particular category, they're easy to pick out. But it's frequently a pain to pick out the individual bits of metadata with just the human readable labels.

Jim

[skb]

Actually, Jim, that looks like it'd make better page code too! Excellent, I'm glad I asked before I start the new skin etc (I'm going to try for a responsive design as well).

Cool! I'll give you a shout when I've got it happening.

Thanks!

[Jade Aislin]

I've been working on adding metadata replacements to the stories I gather and it's been working great. However, after the last batch of stories had 17 fandoms and 34 characters, I wondered if I would be able to sort the characters into a hierarchical list using the replace metadata feature.

I know that I can now change the character based on which category (or fandom) it is in. Is it possible to use a more general statement?

For example:
characters=>(any character)=>category.(any character)

I do have the line:
characters=>\.=>

which deletes any periods in the character name. However, I'm not sure how to make it add the category (or fandom) at the beginning of the character.

[JimmXinu]

I don't use hierarchical lists, so I don't know what that's about.

However, if you simply want "category." prepended to all the characters, use:
characters=>(.+)=>category.\1

The replacements are applied in order, so to use both, put the '.' remover first:

replace_metadata:
characters=>\.=>
characters=>(.+)=>category.\1

[Jade Aislin]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

I don't use hierarchical lists, so I don't know what that's about.

Basically, I want the character column I have to list the fandom and then have a sublist of characters.

Example:

Spoiler:

Character
.....Transformers
..........Sam Witwicky
..........Bumblebee
.....Buffy
..........Xander Harris

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

However, if you simply want "category." prepended to all the characters, use:
characters=>(.+)=>category.\1

Not exactly. I do want to prepend something to all the characters. However I want to prepend the fandom the character comes from. I tried substituting {#fandom} and #fandom, but neither did what I was looking for. I'm not sure I'm explaining it very well.

I was hoping to find a way to change every character to fandom(the fandom the character comes from).character without having to input all the characters (including the ones I didn't have to change before, like Bumblebee).

Similar to how I can change a character based on fandom.

 characters=>Sam W=>Sam Witwicky&&category=>Transformers

will change the characters "Sam W" if it is in the category "Transformers". I want to be able to look for a character, check if it is in a fandom, and then prepend that fandom to the name.

Thinking about it, I'm not sure it can be done without replacing every character metadata individually.

[JimmXinu]

You should be able to without a line for every character, but you will need one for every fandom you want separate:

replace_metadata:
 characters=>(.+)=>Character.Transformers.\1&&category=>Transformers
 characters=>(.+)=>Character.Buffy.\1&&category=>Buffy

[Jade Aislin]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

You should be able to without a line for every character, but you will need one for every fandom you want separate:

replace_metadata:
 characters=>(.+)=>Character.Transformers.\1&&category=>Transformers
 characters=>(.+)=>Character.Buffy.\1&&category=>Buffy

Unfortunately, that didn't work when there were two characters and two fandoms with one character from each fandom.

Instead of getting "Transformers.Bumblebee, Buffy.Xander Harris", I get "Buffy.Bumblebee, Buffy.Xander Harris".

Is it possible to set a list of character names to choose what prepend to attach?

For example:

characters=>(.+)=>Buffy.\1&&characters=>(Buffy or Xander or Spike)&&category=>Buffy

[JimmXinu]

characters=>(Buffy|Xander|Spike)=>Buffy.\1&&catego ry=>Buffy

If you're going to get that complicated, at some point you're going to have to learn regular expressions:
http://www.regular-expressions.info/

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