[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[chrisric]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Honestly, FFF plugin CLI was added more because it possible than because it was useful.

Understood. Thanks for the quick reply. I appreciate the CLI as it works great when creating and testing new adapters.

[WinterPhoenix]

Hello! Not sure if this is the right place to ask about these things, but I think it is.

I've recently started using the function that fetches story URLs from email, and I've noticed that the process slows down significantly whenever one of the URLs is from Royal Road. My first thought was that it might be related to Royal Road’s email-click redirect URLs, but I'm not certain, so I wanted to ask here to see if that's expected behavior.

I also feel like fetching metadata has been noticeably slower since a recent update. I’m not sure whether that’s just my imagination, but I can’t think of anything specific I changed that would cause it—although I *have* been modifying my `personal.ini` quite a bit. As far as I can remember, the only changes I made are listed below. Could any of these cause slowdown?

I also added some URLs to my previously empty reject list, and may have enabled the setting that splits URLs into separate jobs by site. I’m about 95% sure I already had that turned on previously.

Here are the relevant parts of my configuration:

[defaults]
# Commented out
#open_pages_in_browser:true

# Added:
skip_threadmarks_categories:Media,Apocrypha,Informational,Staff Post,Extras,Voting,Index
order_threadmarks_by_date:true
mark_new_chapters:true
use_reader_mode:true

custom_columns_settings:
 "FanFicFare"=>#downloaded_by,n
add_to_include_metadata_pre:
 parentforums==Quests

strip_chapter_numbers:true
add_chapter_numbers:toconly

[epub]
# Changed from true to false
include_images:false

# Added:
[www.scribblehub.com]
username: <not included here>
password: <not included here>
#use_flaresolverr_proxy:true

[https://forums.spacebattles.com/thre...i-oc.1211852/]
skip_threadmarks_categories:Media,Apocrypha,Informational,Staff Post,Extras,Voting,Index,Sidestory

[https://forums.spacebattles.com/thre...elow.1225985/]
order_threadmarks_by_date:false

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by WinterPhoenix

I've recently started using the function that fetches story URLs from email, and I've noticed that the process slows down significantly whenever one of the URLs is from Royal Road. ...

I don't remember anything that changed recently that would have that effect. And except for logging in (and slow_down_sleep_time of course), most personal.ini settings don't change anything during the metadata fetch process.

Honestly, I'm inclined to blame it on the ever increasing levels of screening and blocking aimed at the AI training bots vacuuming the entire web over and over--especially written prose.

Considering the issues we have with other sites, I count myself lucky that FFF still works at all.