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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
See post #4997.
tl;dr for the last few pages and the GitHub thread: FFnet was being attacked by bots and installed Cloudflare. Cloudflare thinks FFF is a bot attacking the site and blocks it. Jim made a test version of FFF that doesn't get blocked.
The test version only really works on 5.x. Older versions just produced a lot of OpenSSL errors whenever downloading from FFnet.
If you're using Calibre 4.23 and don't want to upgrade for whatever reason, my suggestion is to grab the portable version of 5, load up the test version of FFF in it, open your library, update, and then switch back to main Calibre for your reading pleasure. Do not share libraries if you're using any version below 4.23 or things will break. |
Huh, I never thought of doing a separate installation to keep just for DeDRM.
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Originally Posted by JimmXinu
It is unfortunate, but entirely possible, that ffnet support may not be possible in older versions of Calibre from now on.
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I want to note that I'm running 4.23 and tested the test version. I did an update of ONE fanfiction.net fiction and it worked correctly, now trying to do a more comprehensive update see if the result holds true.
Update: It did! Tried to update my entire in-progress library and no 403 or other coded failures. I should mention my personal.ini does have the attempted client and delay:8 changes added in, though I don't think they apply to a cloudscraper attempt.