Alright, this is an accumulation post, so there's several items I'm going to be bringing up here. I've been making notes when I noticed something and wanted to find out if it was something that could be fixed/modified.
1. Cover images dealing with RoyalRoadL.com. The earlier post that used cover_exclusion_regexp was great, I know how to block images. However, there's a problem with at least one story I've run into that I'm trying to figure out.
The story, Everybody Loves Large Chests ID#8894 (The story is more comedy than anything, and about a shape-shifting treasure chest. It does have some NSFW scenes later on in the story though, so I figured best not to direct link it.
When I download the story, the image that comes in is the same one that was discussed and blocked earlier on (the grey image with 200x300 in the center). It does have a cover image which is an SVG file. I cut/pasted the cover image into the story, but every time I update it reverts to that stupid empty grey image. I've looked through the basic log that calibre shows, and there's nothing in there. There is at least 2 other stories that do this to me, but I can't remember all of them I know "Galactic Fist of Legend" #4552 does it as well, but the others I'm not sure about.
In the logs the following message IS shown:
calibre_plugins.fanficfare_plugin.fanficfare.write rs.writer_epub(432): writer_epub: no new cover, has old cover, write image.
I've looked a bit (including searching) for a way to block cover overwrites. I'd like to do it for the specific story, or figure out where the hell the 'new' (old) cover is coming from and block it too, but I'm not sure how to find that out.... and that brings me to the next item on my list, also to do with RoyalRoad.
2. Finding/Blocking a specific image. When I download a story called How to date an android.
http://royalroadl.com/fiction/7556 (...so far it's safe, though in the future it may not be.) I get a smiley face cover image. it's like 21x21 pixels. I remove it, update and get it again. Blocking the cover change for this story specifically (as with the one above) is a possible option, or blocking the image altogether. I can't figure out where the icon is coming from. I turned my adblock software off and looked through the story for several chapters including the front page and can't find the damn icon anywhere so I can use an exclusion with it. Is there a way for me to look through a log somewhere and see where it's coming from?
3. RoyalRoad again. This involves the stars, It's not a huge deal but I figured I'd ask as I've got all sorts of other questions as well. I'm really big about having all the information and it's great that we get the stars. When I add them to my 'score' column, which was for a few different sites, I get up to 6 decimals. Is there anyway to round this to 2? I can probably figure it out if I modify the column to only show up to 2 decimals, but I believe there's a reason I left it as is. I don't want to screw up another system/site that uses it, or add another column, so is there a way to put something in my personal.ini to fix it?
4. Unlikely you can help, but I figured I might as well ask. This happens on multiple sites, and I ran across it a few times lately and it made me wonder if I could fix it.
Several sites have a looser formatting option (unlike some like ff.net that's very specific/tight) royalroad and lucafel are some of them. There's nothing wrong with it, but occasionally when downloading stories I get 3-4 empty lines between paragraphs for stories. I've gone through and edited several stories directly through HTML to remove this issue.
Each site has some slightly different issues, but generally there's only a couple per site. My question is: Is there a way to 'edit' the raw HTML through the INI to remove/replace? Say: <br><br> and replace with <br> or something similar? Some sites have exact problems, and some have multiple ones, but with a few lines of replace code It would fix these up and make it a lot easier to read on my kindle without manually editing. When converting, sometimes calibre can fix this through the conversion, but it doesn't always work.
5. Fictionhunt. Semi-problem. Nothing huge, but something I saw and figured I should ask about.
After downloading a few book, I went through and put in a proper comment on several of these stories, finding the description elswhere. Because of the nature of the site, there wasn't a proper description available. I'm not sure what happened but I 'updated' a couple of the stories to include all the fanfiction data and promptly lost the description I'd put in. I only noticed this yesterday when I was converting a story. It was only a few that this happened with, and I was able to get the information back in.
My question is if there is a way in the personal.ini to prevent fictionhunt from updating the comment area when downloading information? I searched through the default.ini and couldn't find an option to do something like it. I know you can set a overall one for new only, but is there something site specific?