[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[ownedbycats]

This seems to work. When I find a fic to test with, I'll see if I can use include_metadata conditionals to exclude books with an actual series.

[archiveofourown.org]

## Copy collections to series
include_in_series:series,collections

include_metadata_pre:
 collections=~Exchange

Is there any good way to set the series index of specific series to 0.00? I have a feeling this would be something better handled by the Action Chains plugin, so not a big deal.

[JimmXinu]

Technically, the series entry is 'Series Name [1]', so you should be able to set it with replace_metadata if you really want.

Although series without ordering rather defies the definition of 'series'.

[ownedbycats]

I use a series index of 0.00 to specifiy unordered/unknown-order series. Mostly my big stack of Golden Guides.

[dailyalice]

Speaking of AO3 collections . . .

Just in case anyone finds this useful (and maybe many people already do this or something similar), but I have a custom column called "fests" (well, actually #fests of course) and then I have this in my personal.ini:
include_in_fests:collections,freeformtags

And then I clean up the data a bit in replace_metadata and then use stuff in include_metadata_post to pull out specific things into my fests column. I call it "fests" but I use it for communities & challenges & cons & archives & other stuff. Basically lots of things where relevant data might show up in AO3's collections, but I wanted a short list.

Now I have stuff like Yuletide and all manner of fandom & ship specific fests & whatnot in my "Fests" column, just for the collections i find relevant. (And it's not cluttered up with collections made by individuals unless I want them there.)

I included freeformtags in addition to collections because occasionally there are fests mentioned in tags but not in collections (often on older works, with community tags). I use tag hierarchies too (to gather all the fests for a particular fandom or ship together), but sometimes don't bother. I put all the years of Yuletide under one Yuletide tag for instance.

I really love include_metadata_post these days; I also use it for a primary ship (#mainship) column.

[ownedbycats]

I feel like I may have asked this before, but answer may have changed with the recent changes to the cover generation code:

I created a column, #fanficcover, to differentiate between downloaded, generated, and manually-inserted covers. Can FFF populate at least the first one? Generate Cover can populate for generated covers, and manually-inserted is, well, manual. I found a metadata entry called 'coverSource' but not sure what it does.

EDIT: Turns out GC's 'update column' doesn't actually work when FFF calls it? Unless it's supposed to and is a bug that needs to be fixed (or something worth adding, though I suspect not), I can just manually fill it out on new fics.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

I feel like I may have asked this before, but answer may have changed with the recent changes to the cover generation code:

I created a column, #fanficcover, to differentiate between downloaded, generated, and manually-inserted covers. Can FFF populate at least the first one? Generate Cover can populate for generated covers, and manually-inserted is, well, manual. I found a metadata entry called 'coverSource' but not sure what it does.

FFF's cover_image can be used with custom_columns_settings and generate_cover_settings, but isn't available for other metadata processing.
From the Cover Settings Calibre Plugin wiki page:

specific, first, default, old & force (plus the empty value for when FanFicFare Downloader finds no cover) are not just convenient labels, but also values set into the FanFicFare metadata entry cover_image. This is most useful with the generate_cover_settings setting mention in examples above and in more detail below.

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

EDIT: Turns out GC's 'update column' doesn't actually work when FFF calls it? Unless it's supposed to and is a bug that needs to be fixed (or something worth adding, though I suspect not), I can just manually fill it out on new fics.

GC updates columns? Huh. You'd have to take that up with kiwidude over in the GC thread. FFF calls GC's generate_cover_for_book() method.

[VioletRed24]

Hi, I hope this question hasn't already been asked (I did a quick search of the thread and didn't see it).

I'm starting to archive all of the stories by each author I follow on literotica.com. But that's well over 200 authors, so I'm trying to make this less of a hassle.

If I click "Download from URLs" I can add multiple individual story links at a time. But if I click "Get Story URLs from Web Page" I can only add one author's page link. It doesn't look like it but I gotta make sure, is there no way to paste all the author's page links I have at once and have it go through them one after the other? Or do I need to copy, paste, and start each author's link individually?

[ownedbycats]

Only one page at a time, yes.

FFF isn't designed for bulk-archiving (it causes excessive traffic that may lead to sites trying to block your IP or even all FFF users in general), so I wouldn't try to bypass this.

[VioletRed24]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Only one page at a time, yes.

FFF isn't designed for bulk-archiving (it causes excessive traffic that may lead to sites trying to block your IP or even all FFF users in general), so I wouldn't try to bypass this.

Dang..... Oh well, thank you for your help.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by VioletRed24

I'm starting to archive all of the stories by each author I follow on literotica.com. But that's well over 200 authors, so I'm trying to make this less of a hassle.

I also suggest this if you haven't done it already:

Go to Preferences > Add your own column. Add a new long-text column, like this. (Set it to plain text—it's less prone to breakage.)



Go to FanFicFare's config, the Custom Columns tab. Set the "Saved metadata" column to the one you just created.

This way, if you want to make tweaks to various replace_metadatas or add a new column, you can use "Update Calibre metadata from Saved Metadata Column." This is a bit faster, reduces stress on the site servers, and provides a backup for stories later deleted.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

FFF's cover_image can be used with custom_columns_settings and generate_cover_settings, but isn't available for other metadata processing.

Since I'm not entirely sure what "other metadata processing" means, confirmation that a copy category wouldn't work? I tested the following on a few fics and it worked once and then stopped working. So I'm inclined to think the "successful" run was a user error, e.g. forgetting to clear the field beforehand

[defaults]

custom_columns_settings: 
 covertype=>#fanficcover

replace_metadata: 
 covertype=>(.*)=>Downloaded

add_to_extra_valid_entries:,oneshot,tagscategory,covertype

 include_in_covertype:cover_image

[veviara]

Is there any way to use an already captured group in the conditional for replace_metadata? Or a workaround that I'm missing?

What I'm looking for is something that would allow me to capture a group and then modify it if that same group is also present in another tag e.g.:

characters=>([A-Za-z ]+)=>dark \1&&customtags=~dark \1

The problem with that ^^ approach is that the second reference to the capturing group is invalid, and while that does make sense it has also given me quite a few premature grey hairs. My current workaround is to include both characters and customtags in the same column on import, which kinda works, but doesn't solve all problems and comes with a different nightmare (cleanup). It feels like a problem which already has a solution but I cannot for the life of me find it?

(i already tried to post this once but it looks like something went wrong so im trying again. if it did work and there are two messages, well, thats why)

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by veviara

Is there any way to use an already captured group in the conditional for replace_metadata? Or a workaround that I'm missing?
...
(i already tried to post this once but it looks like something went wrong so im trying again. if it did work and there are two messages, well, thats why)

No, the regexps (matching key and conditional) are each separate and you can't carry groups across between them.

I don't really follow what you're trying to accomplish. A concrete example might help.

MR has restrictions on new users for the first 10 posts or so to prevent spammers. Your post was probably waiting for mod approval.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Since I'm not entirely sure what "other metadata processing" means, confirmation that a copy category wouldn't work? I tested the following on a few fics and it worked once and then stopped working. So I'm inclined to think the "successful" run was a user error, e.g. forgetting to clear the field beforehand

Most metadata entries are populated during the 'get metadata' phase. cover_image can be filled much later, depending on the value.

As currently coded, cover_image is being filled after covertype has already been cached as an empty list. And the metadata cache does not trace back through include_in_* settings.

IE, cover_image is uncached when set, but not entries derived from it, whether from include_in_* or replace_metadata conditionals. Most of the time, it doesn't matter; and the cache saves significant time for users with extensive metadata editing. Until now, I would have said all the time.

I am considering whether this corner case is worth addressing or not.

This feels a bit familiar. Was there a similar case before?

[veviara]

I don't really follow what you're trying to accomplish. A concrete example might help.

Well. AO3 has the character tags and the freeformtags, right? And authors will often put "extensions" of the character tags in the freeformtags e.g. "Harry Potter" in characters and "dark!Harry Potter" in freeformtags. I'd like to separate those "extensions" from the other freeformtags and connect them to the character tag. So what I am/was trying to do was to find a character tag, search through the freeformtags for mentions of that character and then modify the character tag accordingly. I planned to do hierarchical tags eg. "Harry Potter.dark", but it's not particularly important to me exactly how it's done as long as there is some connection between the character tag and the "extension". Does that make sense?

MR has restrictions on new users for the first 10 posts or so to prevent spammers. Your post was probably waiting for mod approval.

Yes I got a message about that after posting the second time, I must have missed it the first time