[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2025-10-29
- Preserve original titles for Reader Post blocks from fiction.live #1269, thanks MacaroonRemarkable!
- adapter_ficbooknet: Collect additional metadata #1270, thanks dbhmw!

[ThreeLizards]

Hi, this is probably an easy answer...I'm just a little brain dead after a long day. How do I get published date to be the updated date? Please and thank you!

[slimcat]

I recently realized how much you can do to customize FFF title pages and I’ve set that up in my personal.ini. Now I’m trying to update my existing fics so the title pages match my new format and I don’t have to edit them manually. These fics have injected covers that I want to keep. I’m using “Update Epub Always” and it’s all working as expected except I can’t figure out how to keep my cover within the epub itself.

I’ve read through the Cover page instructions on the wiki and tested out a bunch of different configurations in the cover settings (and added use_old_cover:true both in the defaults and epub sections of my personal.ini), but no matter what I’ve tried, updating wipes out the cover page xhtml file and cover image completely. I still have my cover in Calibre, so I can inject it again, but I’d like to skip that extra step if possible. From the documentation, it sounds like there’s a way to preserve the cover page in the epub itself when updating, so either I’m doing something wrong or I’m misunderstanding and you can’t preserve injected covers.

[JimmXinu]

Multi-reply

Originally Posted by ThreeLizards

Hi, this is probably an easy answer...I'm just a little brain dead after a long day. How do I get published date to be the updated date? Please and thank you!

Short answer: The accepted solution is to create and populate a custom column for dateUpdated.

FFF records three dates for most stories: datePublished, dateUpdated, (both from the story metadata on site) and dateCreated (when FFF ran to create the download. These are labeled Published, Updated, and Packaged respectively.

Calibre's standard metadata has two settable date fields:
- Date (internally 'timestamp'), FFF sets it to dateCreated on any update.
- Published (internally 'pubdate'), FFF sets it to datePublished on any update.

There is not a simple way to get FFF to populate Calibre's Published field with FFF's dateUpdated.

Originally Posted by slimcat

I recently realized how much you can do to customize FFF title pages and I’ve set that up in my personal.ini. Now I’m trying to update my existing fics so the title pages match my new format and I don’t have to edit them manually. These fics have injected covers that I want to keep. I’m using “Update Epub Always” and it’s all working as expected except I can’t figure out how to keep my cover within the epub itself.

[defaults]
## If set, on EPUB update, the existing EPUB cover will be used,
## taking precedence over specific, first image, and
## default_cover_image, but not force_cover_image
use_old_cover:true

I would also suggest you setup an FFF Saved Metadata Column. It won't help with updating title pages inside books, but will with updating customized Calibre metadata.

[wildfire070]

I don't normally download from wattpad, but I've got a few authors who only post to that site. When I download from there, it gives me a "Reads" entry on the titlepage even though I do NOT have this in the wattpad section of my personal.ini

extra_titlepage_entries: reads

Is there a way to exclude this from showing in my titlepage?

This is all I have in my standard titlepage entries:

titlepage_entries:<div class="inline">,seriesHTML,rating,datePublished,dateUpdated,numChapters,numWords,genre,</div>

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by wildfire070

I don't normally download from wattpad, but I've got a few authors who only post to that site. When I download from there, it gives me a "Reads" entry on the titlepage even though I do NOT have this in the wattpad section of my personal.ini

extra_titlepage_entries: reads

Is there a way to exclude this from showing in my titlepage?

This is all I have in my standard titlepage entries:

titlepage_entries:<div class="inline">,seriesHTML,rating,datePublished,dateUpdated,numChapters,numWords,genre,</div>

Some devs, when adding site specific metadata, also add it to the title page by default.

In this case, you should be able to clear it in personal.ini with:

[wattpad.com]
extra_titlepage_entries: