[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[Elaine T]

Originally Posted by Lys

I tried different combinations with use_archiveofourown_gay:true or with the browser cache feature, but the result was always the same (with a slight different long message error, but always a 403)

That's the reason I asked if someone managed to download locked AO3 fics through FFF in the last few days, and if yes, if they could share their own setting to see if I could replicate that and solve the issue

Daughter has reported this problem, too. What's weird is we're running the same Win 11, same Calibre version, same FFF, and everything is working for me. And going through the same network. But she can't download stories locked to only logged in users, or update anthologies whether or not they require log in. She runs Steam as well as Windows - could that be messing with things somehow? She sent me debug logs which I will try to attach. (last time I thought I attached something here, it didn't actually happen.)

[JimmXinu]

Both of those end in "403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://archiveofourown.gay/users/login"

That's not a system or network error, that's the site choosing to forbid access. We don't know why certain users and/or IPs/networks ended up blocked, but doing lots of downloads is a factor. It's usually temporary, clearing after 'some time', which could be hours or days.

For the series update, it may help to comment out username--the AO3 adapter automatically attempts to login for series if username is saved.

Other than that, I don't know of anything more that you or FFF can do about that.

As always with AO3, you can still download epubs from the site.

[Elaine T]

Thanks. I"ll try taking username out then.

[Ghostcat]

I had this when using use_archiveofourown_gay:true a few days again. Commenting out login details in personal.ini means that FFF asks you to login to download AO3 locked files. It quite happily accepts this and gets on with downloading the book.

[Lys]

Originally Posted by Elaine T

Daughter has reported this problem, too. What's weird is we're running the same Win 11, same Calibre version, same FFF, and everything is working for me. And going through the same network. But she can't download stories locked to only logged in users, or update anthologies whether or not they require log in. She runs Steam as well as Windows - could that be messing with things somehow? She sent me debug logs which I will try to attach. (last time I thought I attached something here, it didn't actually happen.)

I solved the problem by... creating a new account
I have no idea how/why Cloudflare decided to block my previous one. I hadn't used FFF for over 2 weeks when I tried to download some fics, and every single one came back with that 403 error. Taking out my setting configuration all info related to my login, allowed me to download not locked fics, but the locked ones were still giving me errors.
My account could access AO3 normally, it wasn't banned from the site nor anything else, but for some reason, Cloudflare blocked it when using FFF

[Elaine T]

Originally Posted by Ghostcat

I had this when using use_archiveofourown_gay:true a few days again. Commenting out login details in personal.ini means that FFF asks you to login to download AO3 locked files. It quite happily accepts this and gets on with downloading the book.

I commented out username and was able to download series anthologies again, but trying to download an AO3 Locked file still failed. Did you comment out both username and password? I only took out one. It asked for both when I ran the download, then failed to download the update. Usual error.

[mijkala]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

New Test Version

2024-05-28
- Add download_finished_signal for Action Chains #1073
- New Site: touchfluffytail.org (#1071) thanks dbhmw

The FFF plugin has a signal it will emit after the "proceed with updating your library" dialog.

The code for the Action Chains Module I tested with is:

from calibre_plugins.action_chains.events import ChainEvent

class SearchChanged(ChainEvent):

    # replace with the name of your event
    name = 'FFF done'

    def get_event_signal(self):
        return self.gui.iactions['FanFicFare'].download_finished_signal

All I've done with it is call a chain that printed 'HERE!'.

Stumbled upon this while starting to look at action chains. I added this to my modules. but I haven't noticed anything different? Is this saying that it'll make a signal tone, or is this talking about the little pop-up that occurs? I would love a little "ding" or some sort of audible notification but after trying this, and playing around with my mac settings nothing really happens

[serpi]

I'm trying to clean up and merge fandom tags and usually have success by placing the example line below in the replace metadata section in the personal ini

A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms=> House of the Dragon

but it has trouble when a fandom is originally in another language, for example if I write

선의의 경쟁 | Friendly Rivalry=>Friendly Rivalry

it gets written as Friendly Rivalry | Friendly Rivalry

Any suggestions on getting this to clean up to just one title for the fandom column

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Elaine T

I commented out username and was able to download series anthologies again, but trying to download an AO3 Locked file still failed. Did you comment out both username and password? I only took out one. It asked for both when I ran the download, then failed to download the update. Usual error.

Well, yes. It's failing on login, so login fails.

It helps with anthology because you don't actually need the login much of the time.

Originally Posted by mijkala

Stumbled upon this while starting to look at action chains. I added this to my modules. but I haven't noticed anything different? Is this saying that it'll make a signal tone, or is this talking about the little pop-up that occurs? I would love a little "ding" or some sort of audible notification but after trying this, and playing around with my mac settings nothing really happens

I don't remember basically anything about Action Chains. If you got a pop up that said 'HERE', that was it.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by serpi

I'm trying to clean up and merge fandom tags and usually have success by placing the example line below in the replace metadata section in the personal ini

A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms=> House of the Dragon

but it has trouble when a fandom is originally in another language, for example if I write

선의의 경쟁 | Friendly Rivalry=>Friendly Rivalry

it gets written as Friendly Rivalry | Friendly Rivalry

Any suggestions on getting this to clean up to just one title for the fandom column

Your issue isn't the foreign language, it's the '|' which is a special 'or' character in regular expressions. See wiki page.