I've been a bit indecisive about how to set up Calibre before I started using the FanFicFare plugin to import fanfics. However, I recently discovered the "Saved Metadata" column, which I plan to use initially to start getting the fics I read. I’ll worry about organizing the library more thoroughly later.
I want to get all available metadata from AO3 when importing a fic and save it into the Saved Metadata column. So far, I've assigned these Calibre columns (or custom columns) to capture metadata fields from AO3 fics:
- FanFicFare column (Calibre column or #custom_column)
- Category (what? is this fandom?)
- Genre (what?)
- Language (languages)
- Series (series)
- Characters (#characters)
- Relationships (#relationships)
- Status (#writing_status)
- Published (published)
- Updated (#updated)
- Created (Date)
- Rating (#content_rating)
- Warnings (#archive_warnings)
- Chapters (#chapter_count)
- Words (#word_count)
- Site (what? isn't this publisher?)
- Publisher (publisher)
- Story ID (#story_id)
- Author ID (#author_id)
- Extra Tags (#extra_tags)
- Title (#title)
- Story URL (#story_url)
- Description (#description)
- Author (authors)
- Author URL (#author_url)
- File Format (formats)
- FanFicFare Version (#fff_version)
- Update/Overwrite Error (#fff_update_overwrite_error)
- Saved Metadata (#fff_saved_metadata)
- Last Checked (#fff_last_checked)
I've heard it’s possible to also capture additional AO3-specific stats like kudos, bookmarks, and such, but I'm not sure how to configure FanFicFare or Calibre to fetch and save these fields automatically.
Could anyone share advice or examples on how to configure FanFicFare and Calibre to extract all available metadata from AO3 fics—including kudos and other stats—and save it to the "Saved Metadata" column for archival?
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Moved here as it was an FFF question. Please post specific PI questions in their forum.