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Old 07-29-2012, 11:18 AM   #680
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Originally Posted by trianglekitty View Post
After downloading some 3000 works, I'm coming across an occasional issue in some of them. This may have already been brought up, but I'm getting basically just the metadata page and a title page. The actual text of the fic is just not there.

Here's an example of a fic that downloads this way:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/10165/1/
Those are going to be because of weird/unusual/illegal things in the HTML uploaded by the author.

That particular story has a full HTML header in the story text:
Spoiler:
<div class='storytextp ' id='storytextp' align=center style='padding:0 0.5em 0 0.5em;'>
<div class='storytext xcontrast_txt' id='storytext'><HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="Microsoft Word 97"> <TITLE>Déjà vu~ an ATF story</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY LINK="#0000ff" VLINK="#800080"> <FONT FACE="Futura Md BT"><P>Title- Déjà vu</P> <DL> <DT>Author- Maria Villa</DT> </DL> <P>Disclaimer- They're not mine, blah, blah, blah. The ATF universe was started by Mog and went from there</P> <P>Notes- a Chris angst fic.</P> <P> </P>


I believe I can correct for that problem, but if you could post some more example URLs it would be helpful. That would tell me if the same problem occurs in several stories, or if there are other HTML artifacts causing problems.

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Originally Posted by trianglekitty View Post
Also, just as a suggestion...it would be useful to have a way to select what metadata is updated. If I'm messed around and changed some things in custom columns that are filled with metadata automatically, I might not want all of the column to be overwritten if I do an update.
I could possibly add a feature to let you choose which custom columns should always be updated and which should only be populated for new books. The Generate Cover feature has a similar option.
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