[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[hoperises]

I just updated to the latest version of fanficfare and it still overwrites. It is apparently a new feature:

"- Calibre Plugin: Remove ebook formats before update, overwrite or unnew so that the previouis version ends up in trash in
stead of just copied over."

This is a step back, please fix the problem.

[hoperises]

I think my reply to you got deleted somehow, Jimmxinu. I think the problem is the new "feature" in 2.27:
"Calibre Plugin: Remove ebook formats before update, overwrite or unnew so that the previouis version ends up in trash instead of just copied over."
This is copied from the version list.
I would prefer to just copy over instead of overwrite.
I did update to the latest version, and had removed and installed a new copy of fanficfare. I haven't changed anything in the books other than to update with fanficfare.

I apologize for not being clearer in my first post.

Thank you for the help.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by hoperises

I just updated to the latest version of fanficfare and it still overwrites. It is apparently a new feature:

"- Calibre Plugin: Remove ebook formats before update, overwrite or unnew so that the previouis version ends up in trash instead of just copied over."

This is a step back, please fix the problem.

I can understand that the message above is ambiguous.

The code works as follows:

1. Make a copy of the existing epub
2. Perform EPUB update on that copy
3. Delete the existing epub in the library (fff_plugin.py:1938)
4. Add the updated copy back to the library book (fff_plugin.py:1944)

The only thing that changed was the addition of step 3. Before step 4 directly overwrote the pre-existing epub file. Now, the pre-existing epub is available in trash.

I've just tested it again on Windows10 and on MacOS 10.14 and it does what I have described.

If this is a problem you can reproduce, please post:

• Your OS
• A copy of the pre-update epub
• A copy of the post-update epub
• A calibre debug log of performing the update (under Calibre Preferences drop down.)

[Tanjamuse]

I don't know if this has happened to anyone else, but when I try to download the following link, most of the text doesn't show up. I've attached the epub.

The link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/2600

Here's my save personal.ini:

Spoiler:

[defaults]
website_encodings: utf8, Windows-1252, iso8859-1
is_adult:true
username:XXXXXXXX
password:XXXXXXXX
keep_in_order_ships:true
keep_in_order_category:true
keep_in_order_fandoms:true
keep_in_order_characters:true
keep_in_order_series:true
sort_ships:false
include_titlepage: false
add_genre_when_multi_category: Crossover
use_archived_author:true
custom_columns_settings:
rating=>#ratings
generate_cover_settings:
${category} => (?:\w*\s*&\s*\S*\d*\D*){2,} => Multi
${category} => The 39 Clues => 39 Clues
${category} => A Song of Ice => A Song of Ice
${category} => Angel => Angel
${category} => Assassin's Creed => Assassins Creed
${category} => Back to The Future => Back To The Future
${category} => Beverly Hills 90210 => Beverly Hills 90210
${category} => Bones => Bones
${category} => Buffy => Buffy
${category} => CSI: Las Vegas => CSI Las Vegas
${category} => CSI: Miami => CSI Miami
${category} => CSI: New York => CSI New York
${category} => Charmed => Charmed
${category} => Cheers => Cheers
${category} => Chronicles of Narnia => Chronicles of Narnia
${category} => Cold Case => Cold Case
${category} => Criminal Minds => Criminal Minds
${category} => Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders => Criminal Minds Beyond Borders
${category} => Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior => Criminal Minds Suspect Behavior
${category} => Dawson's Creek => Dawsons Creek
${category} => Dharma.* => Dharma and Greg
${category} => Doctor Quinn: Medicine Woman => Dr Quinn
${category} => Early Edition => Early Edition
${category} => Eragon => Eragon
${category} => Family Ties => Family Ties
${category} => Finder => Finder
${category} => Frasier => Frasier
${category} => Fresh Prince of Bel-Air => Fresh Prince
${category} => Friends => Friends
${category} => Full House => Full House
${category} => Fuller House => Fuller House
${category} => Game of Thrones => Game of Thrones
${category} => Ghost Whisperer => Ghost of Whisperer
${category} => Harry Potter => Harry Potter
${category} => Hercules: The Legendary Journeys => Hercules
${category} => Hitman => Hitman
${category} => The Hobbit => Hobbit
${category} => Home Improvement => Home Improvement
${category} => How I Met Your Mother => How I Met Your Mother
${category} => Indiana Jones => Indiana Jones
${category} => The Inheritance Cycle => Inheritance Cycle
${category} => Joey => Joey
${category} => The Kane Chronicles => Kane Chronicles
${category} => L.A. Noire => LA Noire
${category} => Last of Us => Last of Us
${category} => Lois.*=> Lois and Clark
${category} => Lord of The Rings => Lord of The Rings
${category} => Magnus Chase => Magnus Chase
${category} => Midsomer Murders => Midsomer Murders
${category} => Missing => Missing
${category} => The Mummy => Mummy
${category} => NCIS => NCIS
${category} => NCIS: Los Angeles => NCIS Los Angeles
${category} => NCIS: New Orleans => NCIS New Orleans
${category} => The Nanny => Nanny
${category} => Once Upon a Time => Once Upon a Time
${category} => Once Upon a Time in Wonderland => Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
${category} => Percy Jackson => Percy Jackson
${category} => Pirates of The Caribbean => Pirates
${category} => Red Dead Redemption => Red Dead Redemption
${category} => Sabrina: The Teenage Witch => Sabrina
${category} => Saved By The Bell => Saved By The Bell
${category} => Spin City => Spin City
${category} => Step by Step => Step By Step
${category} => The Secrets of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel => Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
${category} => The Silmarillion => Silmarillion
${category} => Timeless => Timeless
${category} => Tomb Raider => Tomb Raider
${category} => Uncharted => Uncharted
${category} => Without a Trace => Without a Trace
${category} => Xena => Xena
${category} => Young Hercules => Young Hercules

[epub]
include_images: true
keep_summary_HTML: true
make_firstimage_cover:false

[archiveofourown.org]
is_adult:true
keep_in_order_category:true
keep_in_order_characters:true
keep_in_order_fandom:true
keep_in_order_ships:true
join_string_characters:\s&\s
join_string_ships:\s&\s
join_string_category:\s&\s
custom_columns_settings:
ao3categories=>#categories
series01=>#sub_series_1
series02=>#sub_series_2
authorHTML=>#author_url
titleHTML=>#story_url
byline=>#original_author

include_subject_tags:genre,category,warnings
extratags:
replace_metadata:
rating=>Explicit=>Adults Only
rating=>Mature=>Mature
rating=>Teen And Up Audiences=>Teen
rating=>General Audiences=>Kids
site=>archiveofourown.org=>Archive of Our Own
characters,ships,category=>&=>§

[JimmXinu]

@Tanjamuse,

That story consists entirely of broken image tags. AO3 even reports it as 0 word length.

The 'text' you see in the browser is actually the img alt/title text. Example:

<img title="Rodney's never been one for the post-it notes, because it takes more time to write things down than it does to type them up. Long hand is just not something he does anymore." src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2436187/homesickness/p01.JPG" alt="Rodney's never been one for the post-it notes, because it takes more time to write things down than it does to type them up. Long hand is just not something he does anymore." data-pagespeed-url-hash="2690789119" onload="pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality(this);"/>

FFF is unable to download the broken images, but it does preserve the alt attributes.

I doubt it would help, but you could try adding this to your personal.ini to also preserve the title attributes:
add_to_keep_html_attrs:,title

So, FFF is functioning as intended, the 'story' is basically broken.

[Tanjamuse]

Thanks for the explanation. It didn't work with the added line in the personal.ini.

[Arkeus]

There is a weird bug with royal roadl right now where updated existing stories in the library works, but adding new ones has the plugin acting like there is no URL and even copying it in doesn't do anything.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Arkeus

There is a weird bug with royal roadl right now where updated existing stories in the library works, but adding new ones has the plugin acting like there is no URL and even copying it in doesn't do anything.

That sounds like you're using a URL that FFF doesn't recognize.

If you had posted the story URL, I might be able to tell you for sure... (hint-hint)

[Arkeus]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

That sounds like you're using a URL that FFF doesn't recognize.

If you had posted the story URL, I might be able to tell you for sure... (hint-hint)

Any of the current RR URL, but let me pick the ones on the front page:
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/19...nt-evils-part1
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/19...lchemists-tale
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/15390/losian
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/19...ashy-story-v15
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/17...anarchy-book-1
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/19...d-as-a-bicycle
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/19889/fallen-eleven
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/19305/i-am-gamer
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/19681/a-century-later
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/18...a-a-compendium

[JimmXinu]

Looks like they've changed their domain. It used to be www.royalroadL.com

New Test Version Posted

2018-08-07
- royalroadl.com has changed to www.royalroad.com.

BTW, if you have the "Check for changed Story URL" option checked, FFF will stop and ask you to confirm when you try to update a story from that site using a URL.

Because, you know, it's changing the story URL.

[bballuk]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Looks like they've changed their domain. It used to be www.royalroadL.com

New Test Version Posted

2018-08-07
- royalroadl.com has changed to www.royalroad.com.

Thank you for this wondering what was happening when It wouldn't download book.

[JimmXinu]

New Test version posted

This is the first public test version with code changes for python3 CLI users. I've also left the previous test version posted just in case.

This time it's really a test version--only use it if you're backed up and prepared to live with possible mistakes. Please report any issues you see.

2018-08-08
- Accept both [royalroad.com] and pre-existing [royalroadl.com] sections.
- Change [royalroadl.com] to [www.royalroad.com]
- Update included_dependencies
- Many, many changes to make code run on both python 2.7 and python 3.

[hoperises]

I reinstalled calibre completely and restarted my computer and now fanficfare works properly on my mac. It doesn't overwrite if I don't want it to anymore. Thank you. Sorry for the double post earlier this week. I've saved the advice you gave and the next time something odd happens, I'll have somewhere to start from.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

New Test version posted

This is the first public test version with code changes for python3 CLI users. I've also left the previous test version posted just in case.

This time it's really a test version--only use it if you're backed up and prepared to live with possible mistakes. Please report any issues you see.
...

FYI, I've already identified that mobi output has some bugs. Some new ones, I mean.

[sandmanwake]

Just updated to the latest version of FFF via calibre today and downloads from royalroad.com still doesn't work. No error message or anything.

FFF doesn't automatically put the url into the Story URL box on cut and paste and selecting "Download from URLs" from the FFF drop down menu on calibre. If I manually copy and paste the royalroad.com url to the Story URLs box, then hit "ok", nothing happens. Not even getting an error message or the jobs dialog spinning.

Example the url:
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/88...s-large-chests

I'm running Win10 and calibre 3.28 and FFF v2.28.0.