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Originally Posted by DavidBrookes
I am not sure if this is a problem with Calibre or with the FanFictionDowloader plugin but when I went to update my FanFiction.Net library tonight (what I normally do is copy and paste all of my bookmarked pages into a text file and then copy then into the plugin so it can determine what has been updated and add any new stories plus let me know at the end what stories have been removed) but tonight it claim that there were 3218 out of 3220 stories to be updated/added and I know that there have not that many emails from FanFiction.Net nor new stories. It did something similar last week but that was mainly author name changes that updated for a few more than usual. I have attached how I have setup the FanFictionDownloader plugin in .jpg format and a copy of the personal.ini file as well. I am going to try with another site to see if I get the same result.
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First, I do
not recommend using FFDL the way you are. Checking for updates on thousands of stories at once causes excessive traffic on the source site. fanfiction.net in particular has been known to block people's IP address if they generate too much traffic.
Instead, I highly recommend that you 'follow' stories and use the site's email notifications to inform you about updates and then update those specific stories. I also recommend using Update EPUB, not Overwrite, unless you have reason to believe that a particular story has changes in previous chapters.
Also, if the stories to update are already in your library, why keep the URL list somewhere else? FFDL has a feature to update existing books.
I don't know what's caused this behavior for you specifically, but I have a couple ideas.
There have been changes to fanfiction.net lately; they've switched to using https:// URLs instead of http:// and Update and Published dates now include time as well as date.
Also, the last version versions of calibre have had a change to how identifiers (the story URL) are stored. FFDL has had to fall back to matching by title & author which is sufficient in most cases.
The most recently posted test version has fixes for both http vs https and the changes to identifier URLs. You might try it. It will be released for general use shortly--I'm waiting to see if there are any problems reported with the German translation.
I must repeat, doing mass updates like this is not recommended.