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Today, 06:05 AM	#11101
MorbPtact Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2024 Device: kindle	I don't know if this has been brought up before (searching didn't find it), but is there a way to update the ToC (which I assume is generated by calibre) with the date each chapter was downloaded? I assume that you would do this by either having an "update date" column, whose information would be copied into the ToC for each chapter as it is updated (though this would only work if the ToC is just updated each time, not regenerated from scratch), or by having FFF add the current date to the chapter title. Is there such a possibility? It would be nice to be able to easily go straight to the most recently downloaded chapters, for example (I read off of a kindle, and it doesn't keep my progress when FFF updates the book from calibre). Thank you!

Today, 10:05 AM

#11102

JimmXinu

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Location: Midwest USA

Device: Kobo Clara Colour running KOReader

Quote:

Originally Posted by MorbPtact

I don't know if this has been brought up before (searching didn't find it), but is there a way to update the ToC (which I assume is generated by calibre) with the date each chapter was downloaded?

When each chapter was downloaded? No.

But there are two features you might benefit from.

First is my solution to your problem: mark_new_chapters

Code:

## If true, when updating an epub that already has old chapters, new
## chapters will be marked in the TOC and chapter header by using
## chapter_title_new_pattern and chapter_title_addnew_pattern to set
## the chapter title.
## If set to latestonly, only new chapters downloaded this time will
## be marked (new) and existing chapters will have any (new) marks
## removed.
##
## mark_new_chapters can be true, false or latestonly
mark_new_chapters:false

Second, some sites give a posted date with each chapter, including AO3:

Code:

## AO3 chapters have 'date' available for each chapter.
## These can be used with custom output (see
## https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFare/wiki/CustomOutput ) or with
## chapter_title_*_pattern settings.
## Examples for html & epub:
#[html]
#tocpage_entry:
# <a href="#section${index04}">${chapter}</a> ${date}<br />
#[epub]
#tocpage_entry:
# <a href="file${index04}.xhtml">${chapter}</a> ${date}<br /><br />

## The 'date' value for chapters mentioned above can be formated with
## datechapter_format.  Otherwise it will default to
## datePublished_format
#datechapter_format:%%Y-%%m-%%d

FYI, XenForo sites (SB/SV/QQ/etc) have datethreadmark instead of datechapter because it's the date the threadmark was made, not the date the chapter was posted.

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Today, 03:18 PM	#11103
Lemur4000 Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2024 Device: Kindle	Is there a way for me to add a tag for books that do not have a cover already?

Today, 03:33 PM

#11104

MorbPtact

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Device: kindle

First is my solution to your problem: mark_new_chapters

Code:

## If true, when updating an epub that already has old chapters, new
## chapters will be marked in the TOC and chapter header by using
## chapter_title_new_pattern and chapter_title_addnew_pattern to set
## the chapter title.
## If set to latestonly, only new chapters downloaded this time will
## be marked (new) and existing chapters will have any (new) marks
## removed.
##
## mark_new_chapters can be true, false or latestonly
mark_new_chapters:false

This is exactly what I am looking for, thank you!

Today, 05:12 PM

#11105

JimmXinu

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Join Date: Dec 2011

Location: Midwest USA

Device: Kobo Clara Colour running KOReader

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lemur4000

Is there a way for me to add a tag for books that do not have a cover already?

Code:

## You can check for an existing cover image in the metadata
## cover_image.  cover_image can be:
## specific -- The site has an image that is specifically this story's cover
## first -- The first image in the story or story desc is used as cover
## default -- A default_cover_image was used
## force -- A force_cover_image was used
## old -- There was already a cover image in the epub.

Something like this maybe:

Code:

add_to_replace_metadata:
 cover_image=>^(.+)$=>Cover:\1
add_to_include_subject_tags:,cover_image

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Today, 05:33 PM

#11106

steltek

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Join Date: Jan 2016

Device: none

Quote:

Originally Posted by zeusosphere

Hi, I'm back again because FFF has broken even more for me lately. It seems to only be able to download 2 chapters of a fic (first and last, which it opens the URLs in the browser for) and all the others fail, and while previously I could manually open the failed chapters in my browser (firefox) and update using the URL (instead of just selecting the fic and choosing 'update'), even this no longer works for me. Please tell me what tests I could try to isolate the issue or where I could look for help. I know nothing about Python nor anything about Qt but I managed to dig up the last time you had this discussion which seemed to have been solved by the test version calling Calibre's safe_open_url? Also, does this plugin support using fanfictiondownloader's cache, and if so could you please point me to the cache path? ~/Users/REDACTED/Library/Caches/fanficdownloader/QtWebEngine/Default/Cache just fails completely.

Here's an example of me trying to download the last 42 chapters of a fic (I tried downloading 93 chapters at once after loading the pages manually and somehow the first 40 or so chapters worked before the method failed):

Spoiler:

Just in case, I tried updating another fic with failed chapters with use_browser_cache_only:false and here's the log:

Spoiler:

And here's where something similar last came up:

At one time, FFF could use the Fanfictiondownloader web cache, but I believe that support ended a while ago due to changes to that application's web cache. I can't find the thread related to it, but I know it doesn't work now.

Those 403 errors in your output would suggest to me that you are being blocked by Cloudflare (i.e. if the problem is really bad that maybe they have blacklisted your IP address ?).

Also, I don't use a Mac, but vaguely recall there was a change you might have to do in Calibre per this thread related to OSX security changes to allow Calibre/FFF to be able to open web pages in a browser window. That problem described in the linked thread was related to Chrome; however, it likely could also apply to Firefox on Mac as well.

Today, 06:10 PM	#11107
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 11,046 Karma: 75555555 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	EDIT: Tired. posted wrong thread. Last edited by ownedbycats; Today at 06:16 PM.

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