A note and a question
One note and one question...
The note is regarding the SWI (Stories With Images) at Fictionmania. Here's the thing: FM has several reading modes, which correspond to variant URLs.
The standard URL for text-only stories (the one FFF recognizes) is in this format:
http://www.fictionmania.tv/stories/readtextstory.html?storyID=<story ID number>
This will show the story in plaintext format embedded into a HTML page which supplies metadata. I don't disagree that it's the best choice for FFF.
There are also, however, variant URLs in these formats:
http://www.fictionmania.tv/stories/readststory.html?storyID=<story ID number>
(shows the story in raw plaintext format, with no metadata)
javascript:newPopwin('/stories/readxstory.html?storyID=<story ID number>')
(pops up a windows with the plaintext story automatically converted to HTML)
...and that's it for the plaintext ones. However, FM ALSO allows stories pre-formatted in HTML, usually including images. These will have URLs in the format:
https://www.fictionmania.tv/stories/readhtmlstory.html?storyID=<story ID number>
instead of the links to the "plaintext embedded in HTML" and "story autoconverted to HTML" as above.
Here's the thing: FFF recognizes ONLY the first of these URL formats, the one with "readtextstory". Which is not a big deal for plaintext stories... but IS a problem with SWIs, because FM does not expose a link in this format for those. However, I experimented editing manually the link before invoking it from FFF, and FFF IS capable of downloading those stories (albeit in a plaintext-with-no-images fashion).
Now, I'm not really requesting support for downloading the HTML-with-images version, because I have no idea how much work it would entail (might be trivial, might be a big job...). But it would be nice if FFF would at least accept the "readhtmlstory" variant, even if it actually downloaded the "readtextstory" version. At least we would get the metadata, which is a chore to do by hand.
Now, the question, which is unrelated...
I happen to follow a few authors who post in multiple sites -- under different pen names (sometimes due to site rules; for instance, TTH does not allow spaces in author names...).
Is there a way to configure FFF (or maybe Calibre itself) to automatically replace the variant pen name with the preferred form at download time?
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