[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[beaRL]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

You want to have those banner images included in the downloaded story chapters?

FFF doesn't currently do that. But it looks like something we could do

The image would be included in the chapter text and appear below the chapter title, not above it. Possibly that could be changed with custom CSS.

I don't read wattpad. Is this something that should always be included (if present), or an option users can turn on and off? On or off by default?

Thank you! That would be perfect

In my case, every time I see this kind of images they are related to the story so I think that it should always be included, but maybe some people don't like them so it could be optional?

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2022-09-07
- adapter_wattpadcom: Add include_chapter_banner_images feature, defaults on

[wattpad.com]
# ...
## wattpad.com chapters can have a banner image at the top of the
## page.  When include_chapter_banner_images:true the banner image
## will be prepended to the chapter text during download as:
## <img class="photoUrl banner-image" src="<img url>">
include_chapter_banner_images:true

[Zauberlehrling!]

The site https://worldofx.de seems to have changed the way the links are created.
could you update that, so that I can download from there again?

Old link format
http://worldofx.de/viewstory.php?sid=1234

New link format
https://worldofx.de/story/read/1234

Thank you,
Zauberlehrling!

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Zauberlehrling!

The site https://worldofx.de seems to have changed the way the links are created.
could you update that, so that I can download from there again?

It's unlikely, honestly.

Before, worldofx.de used eFiction and FFF has code to easily support many eFiction sites.

Now, the whole site has changed--or all the URLs have, at least. It's essentially a whole new site. And FAQ #1 applies.

Plus there's an EPUB download link for each story, so you can at least use that.

I'll remove worldofx.de from FFF next time I do test & clean up pass through all the sites.

[JimmXinu]

FYI, I've added a fair bit to the Cover Settings Calibre Plugin wiki page.

I'd appreciate some feedback on it and the changes made to the way covers work in FFF. Thanks.

[beaRL]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

New Test Version Posted

2022-09-07
- adapter_wattpadcom: Add include_chapter_banner_images feature, defaults on

[wattpad.com]
# ...
## wattpad.com chapters can have a banner image at the top of the
## page.  When include_chapter_banner_images:true the banner image
## will be prepended to the chapter text during download as:
## <img class="photoUrl banner-image" src="<img url>">
include_chapter_banner_images:true

THIS WORKS perfect!!! Thanks you so much!

[dailyalice]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

FYI, I've added a fair bit to the Cover Settings Calibre Plugin wiki page.

I'd appreciate some feedback on it and the changes made to the way covers work in FFF. Thanks.

I haven't looked at all your examples in depth yet, but I like the page a lot. So much useful info. (And I'm really glad I hadn't yet covered covers in my guide or messed around with them much lately. This will help a lot as I get into that.)

(Sorry I don't have more specifics! But I think it's very helpful!)

[dailyalice]

I'd like to have all of the series information from AO3 in one column (#series_ao3). I'm okay with also having #series1, #series2, #series3 and so forth too. In fact I might prefer that! (I can always hide those series in the tag browser and just look at #series_ao3. Having them listed separately in Book Details and on title pages is fine and possibly preferable.)

I've searched this thread & the web & I've seen multiple methods. And I've tried them and things I came up with, but keep running into problems. Sometimes I wind up with series that are smooshed together (so if a story is in two series named Series One and Series Two, Series One will show up in #series1 and Series Two will show up in #Series 2, but then in my #series_ao3 column I get a single series called "Series One,Series Two").

I was also running into a problem where a single series would be listed multiple times in any series column. I'd have Series One [1] and Series One [2] in #series1 and/or in #series_ao3. (But I think that might've been because I had the column type for my series as a tag column instead of a series column. IIRC that issue went away when I switched to the series column, then I started having other issues.)

Honestly I've lost track of the things I've tried and the failed results for each. If I need to give details I can try things again and take notes as I go. But I figured maybe I should just ask here. This really seems like it should be simple to do either with a composite column or in personal.ini or a bit of both.

What would be the best way to handle this? (I don't really need to know what I was doing wrong; I feel like I didn't explain well enough for folks to be able to help me there. I just want to know if this is possible & the best way to go about it.)

Thanks in advance. (I feel like I'm missing something really obvious.)

[baggins41]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

I'd appreciate some feedback on it and the changes made to the way covers work in FFF. Thanks.

I haven't been active on the forums for a while and as it's after 1AM on a worknight I don't have time right now to download the test version and try it out, but I just had to log in and tell you how ecstatic I am to see this feature:

- Add 'Set Calibre Cover Only for New Books' checkbox

I have accidentally clobbered covers I'd customized so many times because I forgot to go into the settings dialog and change the options before updating a book. Having an option to never replace covers for existing books is a lifesaver.

I'm curious if this in only going to be shown in the "Customize FanFicFare" dialog or if it will also show up on the "Update Existing List" dialog. It would be awful handy to be able to turn it off directly in the latter for the occasional cases where I actually *do* want to overwrite existing covers. Since "Update EPUB Cover?" is going away, I would imagine there would be room to add this option in its place.

[Mieeka]

On trying to download the following story - i was getting 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_text' error
https://archiveofourown.org/works/15675621

turns out the user had hidden it inbetween me starting a download, and the download completing - Any chance of getting a more "user friendly error Jimm?

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2022-09-09
- Fix for remove from update & rejects lists when lower selected first.

Issue discovered in Reading List.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Several times I've seen something like "Chapter 5: Chapter Four."

It's quite common for stories to begin with Prologue, then Chapter 1. Which is why I put '1. 2. etc' not 'Chapter 1' etc for chapter pattern.

Originally Posted by baggins41

I'm curious if this in only going to be shown in the "Customize FanFicFare" dialog or if it will also show up on the "Update Existing List" dialog. It would be awful handy to be able to turn it off directly in the latter for the occasional cases where I actually *do* want to overwrite existing covers. Since "Update EPUB Cover?" is going away, I would imagine there would be room to add this option in its place.

It's in Config on the Calibre Cover tab. I don't have any plans to replace "Update EPUB Cover?" in the Download Options in Add/Update dialogs.

It's trivial to just drag the site story cover from the site onto the cover in book details in Calibre.

Originally Posted by Mieeka

On trying to download the following story - i was getting 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_text' error
https://archiveofourown.org/works/15675621

turns out the user had hidden it inbetween me starting a download, and the download completing - Any chance of getting a more "user friendly error Jimm?

In the next test version.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by dailyalice

I'd like to have all of the series information from AO3 in one column (#series_ao3). I'm okay with also having #series1, #series2, #series3 and so forth too. In fact I might prefer that! (I can always hide those series in the tag browser and just look at #series_ao3. Having them listed separately in Book Details and on title pages is fine and possibly preferable.)

....

What would be the best way to handle this? (I don't really need to know what I was doing wrong; I feel like I didn't explain well enough for folks to be able to help me there. I just want to know if this is possible & the best way to go about it.)

If you have a specific setup you'd like help with, I'll try.

But I don't even have an AO3 example story with multiple series to look at.

[ILB]

Originally Posted by dailyalice

I'd like to have all of the series information from AO3 in one column (#series_ao3). I'm okay with also having #series1, #series2, #series3 and so forth too. In fact I might prefer that! (I can always hide those series in the tag browser and just look at #series_ao3. Having them listed separately in Book Details and on title pages is fine and possibly preferable.)

I've searched this thread & the web & I've seen multiple methods. And I've tried them and things I came up with, but keep running into problems. Sometimes I wind up with series that are smooshed together (so if a story is in two series named Series One and Series Two, Series One will show up in #series1 and Series Two will show up in #Series 2, but then in my #series_ao3 column I get a single series called "Series One,Series Two").

I was also running into a problem where a single series would be listed multiple times in any series column. I'd have Series One [1] and Series One [2] in #series1 and/or in #series_ao3. (But I think that might've been because I had the column type for my series as a tag column instead of a series column. IIRC that issue went away when I switched to the series column, then I started having other issues.)

Honestly I've lost track of the things I've tried and the failed results for each. If I need to give details I can try things again and take notes as I go. But I figured maybe I should just ask here. This really seems like it should be simple to do either with a composite column or in personal.ini or a bit of both.

What would be the best way to handle this? (I don't really need to know what I was doing wrong; I feel like I didn't explain well enough for folks to be able to help me there. I just want to know if this is possible & the best way to go about it.)

Thanks in advance. (I feel like I'm missing something really obvious.)

I´ve got a column like this (#series_all).
The individual series from AO3 are in columns "Series", "#second_series", "third_series" etc
#series_all is like a collection column from these.

[dailyalice]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

If you have a specific setup you'd like help with, I'll try.

But I don't even have an AO3 example story with multiple series to look at.

Thanks!

I was at a loss at first to find works to test on until I remembered that Lomonaaeren does a lot of month long series that also include other works in series (even this one that says it's one-shots has several in it): https://archiveofourown.org/series/206045

I know there are other authors whose works I download who frequently have multiple series attached to stories (otherwise I wouldn't bother with this), but of course I couldn't think of them when I was first working on this.

Originally Posted by ILB

I´ve got a column like this (#series_all).
The individual series from AO3 are in columns "Series", "#second_series", "third_series" etc
#series_all is like a collection column from these.

Thanks! I tried this, which looks very similar to something else I tried and I got a bunch of extra commas in my equivalent to your series_all column. (Browsing in the tag browser, that is.)

I think this is what I tried before which didn't result in all those extra commas:

{#series1}{#series2:|,|}{#series3:|,|}{#series4:|,|}

But this still gave me a couple of series in my #series_ao3 column that read like this in the tag browser:
Series One Name,Series Two Name
(as one tag within a category in the tag browser)

That happened any time I had more than one series, basically. The series where works within it were only attached to one series showed up as usual in the column.

I think the other method I tried last night didn't use a composite column at all, I just edited the custom columns in my personal.ini so all the different AO3 columns were sending data to my #series_ao3 column, like this:

add_to_custom_columns_settings:
 series00=>#series_ao3,a
 series01=>#series_ao3,a
 series02=>#series_ao3,a

Yeah, I just tried that method again and got similar results (see attachment).

[Edited to add: I figured this last part out, need to remove the ,a parts. See my next post.]