[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

New question regarding anthologies: Is there a way to make the Generate Covers for sites apply so long as all the stories are from the same site and cover image was not found? (Note that I have to use generate_cover_settings because of my replace metadatas.)

No. Well, maybe. generate_cover_settings in personal.ini can be applied conditionally. `publisher` for example, should only be set if all merged books are from the same site. I haven't tested that--I'm still without power and limiting my on-line time.

generate_cover_settings:

Spoiler:

## If you have the Generate Cover plugin installed, you can use the
## generate_cover_settings parameter to intelligently decide which GC
## setting to run.  There are three parts 1) a template of which
## metadata part(s) to look at, 2) a regular expression to match the
## template, and 3) the name of the GC setting to use, which must
## match exactly.  Use this parameter in [defaults], or by site eg,
## [ficwad.com]
## Make sure to keep at least one space at the start of each line and
## to escape % to %%, if used.
## template => regexp to match => GC Setting to use.
## To use this, make sure you go to the Generate Cover tab in FanFicFare
## config and check 'Allow generate_cover_settings from personal.ini
## to override'
## 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
## old -- There was already a cover image in the epub.
## This is useful because GC plugin can use the existing image.
#generate_cover_settings:
# ${category} => Buffy:? [tT]he Vampire Slayer => BuffyCover
# ${category} => Star Trek => StarTrekCover
# ${cover_image} => => CompleteCover
# ${cover_image} => (specific|first|default) => CoverWithOrigImage

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Also, any way to enable background metadata?

Not with anthologies. I don't remember why not off hand. Could just be implementation limitations.

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

And is there a way to also include the fanfic summaries in the comments instead of just a list of titles?

Yes, FFF config, Standard Columns tab, 2nd option from the bottom: Include Books' Comments in Anthology Comments?

Originally Posted by chrisric

Hi JimmXinu - Any thoughts on why wuxiaworld.co does see all available chapters anymore?

I've opened an issue (#531) to ask teffalump to look at it.

[DisturbedDragon]

So, I've got an issue appearing within the last four days. When I try to download certain stories, I get "Error: Not a Zip File." Story Link Here. I've checked past issues on this forum, and I can say for certain that my drive is not full - my laptop has about 5 gigabytes of space - and I've run memory diagnostics with no detected issues. When I try to open the already-downloaded epub, I get the same message. This is weird, because I managed to successfully download and read the story on the 12th, and I haven't updated or changed any settings since then.
And I just uploaded it to gdrive to share (link here) but gdrive is saying the file contains no data.
Upon deleting and redownloading the story, it seems to work just fine. Will I have to manually do this for each one, or is there some sort of force-overwrite I can do to make FFF do so for me?
Edit: Derp, forgot there IS an overwrite feature. I'll test that out and see where it takes me, then post the results.

[JimmXinu]

DisturbedDragon, back in June this year we had a problem with FFF reporting "Not a Zip File" but it only happened with email update and Smarten Punctuation and has since been fixed.

When exactly are you getting that error? While trying to download? FFF shouldn't be wrecking the existing epub if it has a problem. If you can reproduce the problem, please run Calibre in debug mode and post the debug log.

[alexeric123]

wuxiaworld.co has had its layout change, and with it, FFF now errors out when i try to update books
NoneType' object has no attribute 'h1'

hopefully this can be fixed

[DisturbedDragon]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

DisturbedDragon, back in June this year we had a problem with FFF reporting "Not a Zip File" but it only happened with email update and Smarten Punctuation and has since been fixed.

When exactly are you getting that error? While trying to download? FFF shouldn't be wrecking the existing epub if it has a problem. If you can reproduce the problem, please run Calibre in debug mode and post the debug log.

I was getting the error at three times (that I tested): when I tried to update the story, when I tried to convert it, and when I tried to open it.
The first I assume is because it was set to "update epub if new chapters" leading to it having to read the epub to compare.
And upon further thought, I think I have some idea of what caused it, actually. At the time of updating the story my computer overheated, sleeping itself (I was quite worried at the time, but everything seemed to work, and I probably didn't notice since the failed update was at the bottom of the list of selected stories). When I hit a key the computer turned back on, complete with all my files. My theory is that the overheating and sleep happened as it was trying to construct the epub after downloading, leading to an epub with no data. I'm no computer wizard, so this is all blatantly ignorant conjecture. Also, I have searched my library and found no other stories with the same issue, thankfully. Upon deleting the story and redownloading, it worked perfectly.
Thank you for your continued work on this plugin, it truly is amazing

[ownedbycats]

I would also run a check disk on your drive. Failing hard drives cause all sorts of weird issues.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2020-08-18
- More fixes for wuxiaworld.co update -- thanks, teffalump!
- Added wuxiaworld.co specific setting dedup_order_chapter_list to optionally apply teffalump's chapter dedup and ordering code. Defaults to false.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2020-08-14
- Fix chapter URLs in wuxiaworld.co.
- Update for site changes, wuxiaworld.co update -- thanks, teffalump!
- Added wuxiaworld.co specific setting dedup_order_chapter_list to optionally apply teffalump's chapter dedup and ordering code. Defaults to false.

My bad.

[TnkSan]

I tried to download some stories from wattpad and it end up saying Error and Bad story URL.
I tried it before and it worked, since May.

I already updated the lastest version (3.22.1)

This is the Copy of Log window:
Status
Title
Author
Comment
URL
Error
Unknown
Unknown
Bad Story URL: (https://www.wattpad.com/story/227448939) for site: (www.wattpad.com) Example: (https://www.wattpad.com/story/9999999-story-title https://www.wattpad.com/story/9999999 https://www.wattpad.com/9999999-chapter-is-ok-too)
https://www.wattpad.com/story/227448939

Thank you very much :3

[JimmXinu]

@TnkSan -

I can't duplicate that problem--it's working fine for me with the latest posted test version downloading the first couple chapters.

If you still see it, please run Calibre in debug mode (under Calibre Preferences dropdown) and try again, then post the debug log.

[ownedbycats]

I was trying to set anthologies as "Anthology" in the status column. I already have this in place for oneshots:

custom_columns_settings: 
 oneshot=>#fanficstatus

replace_metadata:
## Sets one-chapter fics to oneshot
 oneshot=>Completed=>Oneshot&&numChapters=>^1$

# 'add_to_' concats on to existing param, thus the leading comma
add_to_extra_valid_entries:,oneshot,tagscategory,

# oneshot is a copy of status because status itself isn't a list.
include_in_oneshot:status

I think I know how to adapt it, but I'm not sure exactly what to put in the replace_metadata part. Any suggestion?

Thank you.

[Kminari]

Hello, I am new when it comes to customizing Caliber and FFF, hopefully you can help me, I want to put a column where the number of chapters of a book appears (most of them downloaded with FFF), what should I do to have this? the number of chapters can be the number taken from fanfiction/AO3/etc or the number of titles in the index.

[JimmXinu]

@Kminari - Create a custom column with type 'Integers', then in FFF's config, under the 'Custom Columns' tab, you can assume that column to be filled with Chapters.

Note that FFF only fills the column when you download or update a story.

While you're at it, if you plan to add and/or fill more columns, I suggest adding a Long Text, Interpret as Text column and set it as the 'Saved FFF metadata' column on the bottom of FFF's 'Custom Columns' tab.

Again, it will only be filled when you download or update each story; but once filled, you can use 'Update from Saved Metadata' to fill in new columns as you add new custom columns you want to fill from FFF.

[Kminari]

@JimmXinu I did that even before posting the query, but I didn't know it was the correct procedure. Thanks for the help.
Where is that option of 'Update from Saved Metadara'?

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by Kminari

@JimmXinu I did that even before posting the query, but I didn't know it was the correct procedure. Thanks for the help.
Where is that option of 'Update from Saved Metadara'?

It's in the update fic dialog. If the fic doesn't have saved metadata already when you run it it'll fetch it from the site.