You have two seemingly unrelated problems here.
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Originally Posted by firefox26
Newbie just installed the Fanfic plugin and been trying to get the epub created from "(URL removed)" and it keeps giving me an error "Connect timeout"
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A connect timeout is a network issue of some kind. There are many possible causes: poor ISP or even wifi, overzealous firewalls, server congestion or even server throttling if they decide you've been downloading too much, too fast.
I was able to download that story successfully.
It's difficult to tell which it might be without more details. If you can view the story in your browser, but FFF doesn't work in Calibre with the same URL, it might be your firewall software preventing Calibre making outgoing connections.
OTOH, if you downloaded stories successfully and then started getting errors, server throttling is more likely.
FYI, you don't need to use CLI to run Calibre/FFF in debug mode. Under Calibre's Preferences dropdown there's a 'Run in Debug' option.
(If you prefer CLI, I suggest installing FanFicFare from pypi with pip instead.)
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Originally Posted by firefox26
Tried to use the calibre debug to see what the issue and got the following :-
./calibre-debug --run-plugin FanFicFare (URL removed)
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File "calibre_plugins.fanficfare_plugin.fanficfare.cli" , line 557, in get_configuration
TypeError: initial_value must be unicode or None, not str
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This is completely unrelated to connection issues. This is a py3 conversion bug that slipped through. I've fixed it in code, but unless you
need to use Calibre CLI for some reason, I'm not going to uploaded a test plugin version until there's something else to fix too.
FYI2, MobileRead rules ask us not to post NSFW in public. OTOH, I almost always need a story URL to troubleshoot a problem. In future, I suggest posting the problem here, but sending me the story URL in a Private Message(PM). (Assuming you can--I vaguely recall that brand-new users can't PM?)