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Originally Posted by chicleeblair

I'm pulling from two older archive sites, one of which is thechosentwo, and i imagine this will be the same with different names). The use the "category" tag for more than fandom, and chosen two's information doesn't even populate my ship column. however, I can't figure out how to just overwrite all their metadata in those categories and replace it.

include_metadata_pre doesn't add metadata, it creates a white list of what metadata will be allowed.

In truth, defaults.ini should include extracategories:Buffy the Vampire Slayer for [chosentwofanfic.com]. I'll add that before the next release.

replace_metadata lines like category=>Buffy the Vampire Slayer are two element lines, so category is taken as the pattern to be replaced. See wiki here.

You can also add characters & ships for all stories from a site like so:

[chosentwofanfic.com]
extracategories:Buffy the Vampire Slayer
extracharacters:Buffy, Faith
extraships:Buffy/Faith

But not all stories from chosentwofanfic.com are Buffy/Faith. You might instead want something like this:

[chosentwofanfic.com]
extracategories:Buffy the Vampire Slayer

# put category into ships before replacement is done (.NOREPL)
include_in_ships:category.NOREPL

# put characters into ships after replacement is done.
include_in_characters:ships

include_metadata_pre:
# Only keep ships that have a /
 ships=~/
# Only keep the one category (from extracategories)
 category==Buffy the Vampire Slayer

add_to_replace_metadata:
# split charA/charB into a list of charA, charB
 characters=>([^/]+)/(.+)=>\1\,\2