[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2022-04-13
- Update translations.
- Detect and error on adjusted chapter list < 1. Closes #826

2022-04-08
- adapter_webnovelcom: Read chapter text from json in <script> tag.
- Update translations.
- Add --mozilla-cookies CLI option.
- use large cover images on royalroad (#823) Thanks sidney!

(Looks like I uploaded an outdated version the previous time--sorry.)

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted (again)

2022-04-13
- adapter_webnovelcom: Unescape & too. See #825
- Update translations.
- Detect and error on adjusted chapter list < 1. Closes #826

[kolbinski]

Hi I am just wondering is there a way to update a fanfic thats already in an anthology

[JimmXinu]

If you made the anthology using FFF's anthology feature, there is 'Update Anthology Epub' under 'Anthology Options'.

If it's in an anthology you made yourself, and you used EpubMerge, you may be able to 'UnMerge' it and then update it.

[kolbinski]

Thank you very much appreciate it.

[Eternal Link]

Hello, when i tried to use your plugin last night to download some books off of faniction.net, it gave me a error for i think it was cloudflare issues, i was wondering if there is or will be a work around for such an issue.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by Eternal Link

Hello, when i tried to use your plugin last night to download some books off of faniction.net, it gave me a error for i think it was cloudflare issues, i was wondering if there is or will be a work around for such an issue.

There already is, though it requires a bit of work on the users' end. Use either the browser cache or the flaresolverr proxy.

https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFa...erCacheFeature
https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFa.../ProxyFeatures

@JimmXinu -- I think maybe the FAQ entry needs updating.

[Eternal Link]

Thank you for the info, will try it out once i get home as i am currently at work. Will most likly go with the flaresolverr proxy

[JimmXinu]

I've updated the Why am I having errors downloading from fanfiction.net? / Why am I getting 'Cloudflare' errors downloading from fanfiction.net? FAQ.

I know that I don't write the best documentation, if some one has better wording.

[Book_fury]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

I believe you are talking about the checkbox for updating cover inside the ebook. There are other settings under the config tab Calibre Cover for whether the Calibre cover is updated.

Honestly, there are so many different cover options in FFF that it's difficult to know what will help get you what you want without knowing what all your settings are.

I haven’t changed any of my settings they’re all default I just want it so that whenever I update a book the cover picture doesn’t get reset

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Book_fury

I haven’t changed any of my settings they’re all default I just want it so that whenever I update a book the cover picture doesn’t get reset

If you are correct, and all your settings are default, you can suppress all Calibre cover updates by going into the FFF config, Calibre Cover tab and changing the first setting, 'Update Calibre Cover (from EPUB)', to 'No'.

Everything else that might change cover defaults to off.

Note that turning 'Update Calibre Cover (from EPUB)', to 'No' also stops FFF from setting Calibre's cover on new downloads.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

I know that I don't write the best documentation, if some one has better wording.

I have no idea how many times I have made a similar statement. But, I do know how many times I have gotten responses.

[DisturbedDragon]

My laptop is crap, so I tend to put it in hibernate when I’m moving it around. This lets me save all my work – otherwise it tends to shut off automatically upon being jostled. The issue is, if FFF is downloading stories, going into Hibernate and leaving it causes the downloader to bug out and never finish. It doesn’t read that a download failed, it just keeps going forever. I can hit stop download, but none of the downloads are saved, even if it’s 15/18 complete. Is there a way to force it to skip a download if it goes into hibernate/sleep/etc? Other than going into the temp/calibre_whatever folder.
Thank you in advance!

[JimmXinu]

Hmmm. That's an interesting issue.

It doesn't seem to be a problem with Calibre Convert jobs, or with my fake testing download site that doesn't generate network traffic.

But I can duplicate in both PI and CLI with real network traffic.

I'll have to look a bit closer at the timeouts and failure conditions for network fetching FFF uses.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2022-04-16
- Apply connect_timeout setting to network requests.

In Jan 2021, I re-did FFF's networking code to make it more modular and better allow for the Browser cache and Proxy shenanigans we find ourselves needing.

Along the way, I apparently forgot to actually use the connect_timeout setting in the new code. Without a timeout setting, the underlying network code just doesn't timeout. Ever.

This test version uses the old default setting of 60.0 seconds. (A setting of 4 retries is hard coded and not configurable.)

If you frequently hibernate during downloads, you might experiment with a shorter connect_timeout setting.

Depending on a number of factors, you may get reported errors instead of a clean resume, but it shouldn't just hang forever on connections now. I would also set continue_on_chapter_error:true under [defaults] if I were you.