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Originally Posted by emmadiva
I am so excited about this program! I bought my kindle specifically to read fanfic. LOL -I'm shamelessly addicted to it. Please forgive my lack of knowledge regarding creating code and recipes. (Is that even what it's called?) Is there some sort of help/tutorial available? I've tried to figure it out based on the posts in this forum but it's a bit confusing.
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I will be working on a guide/tutorial for Windows XP. Alas, it's not exactly very simple since it involves running a "web server" on your computer. One big problem is the lack of a graphical user interface. Recipe, I think, is somewhat specific to Python or Calibre. I don't think I've ever heard it in relationship to PHP or C/C++.
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Originally Posted by emmadiva
I used the great url link to download off of ffnet and imported the html to my desktop and dragged it into calibre. It worked perfectly!! However I'd like to see if I can find a way to pull fic from another site. I mostly get my fic from Twilighted.net. They have a number of fics that never make it off the site. It's a login protected site. I searched the forums hoping that someone else may have developed something to work with the site but no luck. I'm hoping to find a solution with this grabber.
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This one might be difficult. I don't really want to open an account on a site I will never visit again. Would you mind PM-ing me your log-in or maybe creating one for me? The email account I use for forums is already overflowing and I'm somewhat averse to adding more. Also, do you know if they ban users that "hammer" their site? I won't really be hammering but while trying to test data retrieval, etc, I'm going to have to re-download a couple of fanfics over and over again, until I can get the code working. Before I do this, though, why don't you suggest to the owner/moderators to provide a link for a "printable version"?
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Originally Posted by emmadiva
Last question -- I promise.  How do the category/mass downloads work? I think I read that correctly - That it will download all the fics from a specific author or category and then update when there is a new title? LOL - This would be a dream come true. |
This is already sort of doable within Calibre (instructions and recipe
here), at least for FanFiction.Net. Some caveats with this method, though:
- saves all fanfics into one giant file
- date-based so it might re-download fanfics if there's a time overlap between scheduled downloads
- no pagebreaks between chapters
There's probably a few others I haven't thought of. The Calibre recipe is somewhat broken right now. FanFiction.Net changed some things Sunday night and I still haven't gotten around to updating my website with the fixed ffnet source script. I should be able to fix this when I go home.
I am planning on creating a FLAG script for mass downloads, however, I'm not sure when I'll be able to work on that. I still need to get a clean source over to erayd and I've yet to start working on it. Surprisingly, I suddenly got a social life. Normally, I never go out.
