[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[grizzly666]

I would like to request that www.t-s-s-a.com/ is added.
And thanks for an awesome plugin!

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by grizzly666

I would like to request that www.t-s-s-a.com/ is added.
And thanks for an awesome plugin!

Added to the Possible, but more difficult than usual section of the Sites under consideration list on the Supported Sites page. (IE, unless someone volunteers, it's unlikely.)

Originally Posted by eschwartz

What about the comand line (--run-plugin)? Which could assume --accept-all-defaults.

`--run-plugin` today is almost identical to the pip installed CLI version. The only thing it uses from calibre is personal.ini and it cannot directly update or add books.

I plan to review what might be possible from `--run-plugin` again by looking at the calibredb code, but it will almost certainly be more limited than the GUI--if it's worth doing at all. There's also a current PR over the github project about cron issues again.

[eschwartz]

I figure it could be useful for adding new books, assuming you already have things configured the way you want them.

I would appreciate that, because sometimes I want to add a newly-found fanfiction, but don't need to transfer it to my Kindle immediately. I can either start the GUI for that one thing, or append the url to a text file listing queued books, and eventually batch them.
Currently I am using option 2.

[DavidBrookes]

Originally Posted by DavidBrookes

Ran into an issue on the weekend when attempting to update more than one story from Sink Into Your Eyes using the plugin - if I did one individually - I had no issues but more than one nothing would update. I have attached a copy of the log file to see if you have any idea - one thing I did notice if that the story address has changed from http://www.siye.co.uk/siye/viewstory.php?sid= to http://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=

I was wondering if anyone has come across the above issue that I came across?

[Loba]

Hi there. I hate to ask this in the plugin thread, because I'm pretty sure it's a problem I am having due to my inexperience with regex. But, after unsuccessfully googling and trying to read the python documentation and several regex tutorials I've given up and decided to ask here.

I download from ao3 and I can't stand rambling freeform tags cluttering things up, so I have developed a pretty extensive list of replaced and included freeformtags in my personal.ini with fandom cliches and stuff filtered into a custom column called "themes" that I have set up.

So, for example, I have:

Pining Derek=>Pining
Pining Stiles=>Pining
Mutual Pining=>Pining

then in my included section I have

freeformtags,themes==Pining

Now written this way these work great, but I also have other fandoms and the list can becomes lines and lines of different 'Character Pining=>Pining' which is kind of excessive and I'd like to avoid.

So, I tried it like this:
Pining.*=>Pining

and that worked great, but then it for some reason deletes a bunch of other themes (but not all) on some fics and when I revert to the long version of the ini it works again.

I can work around the issue by having the list be very long, but pining isn't the only tag like this that I'd like to be able to work for multiple characters without having to have so many lines.

So after that long winded explanation that I HOPE made sense... any ideas on why it's deleting the other themes and what I can do?

Example screenie:
http://i.imgur.com/v2LGEvF.png

My full personal.ini:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_h...ew?usp=sharing

Thanks!!

edit: Because I get really obsessive about these things I went back through this thread (again) until I found someone else's personal.ini who was having a different problem and started experimenting with different metacharacters with one tab while reading the wikipedia page on regex in another and I think I figured it out. I almost cried tears of relief! Anyway it seems I was able to get it to stop deleting the freeformtags that came after Pining alphabetically by changing it to ^Pining.*$=>Pining. I'm assuming that told it that ^ was the beginning and it needed to end after $. I think.

Well anyway sorry for cluttering up your thread with this! I'm leaving it in case someone else is confused and runs into a similar issue and I'll also check back to see if anyone has anything to add. Thanks!!

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by DavidBrookes

Ran into an issue on the weekend when attempting to update more than one story from Sink Into Your Eyes using the plugin - if I did one individually - I had no issues but more than one nothing would update. I have attached a copy of the log file to see if you have any idea - one thing I did notice if that the story address has changed from http://www.siye.co.uk/siye/viewstory.php?sid= to http://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=

Originally Posted by DavidBrookes

I was wondering if anyone has come across the above issue that I came across?

I'm not sure what happened to my response to this--I remember writing one.

The error in your log (HTTPException: got more than 100 headers) is not one I've seen before and I wasn't able to reproduce it.

How many stories are you trying to update at once?

Can you give us the story URLs for the smallest list that causes the problem?

[JimmXinu]

New test version posted (direct link)

2016-09-08
- Adding Update Existing Only option to Email URL Fetch.

Originally Posted by glenm125

Is there any clever way for fanficfare to ignore chapter notification emails for stories that aren't in the library yet? Or another way to accomplish same? Note that an Ignore list won't work, because the whole point is that I don't know what stories may be authored, I can't know the IDs in advance to Ignore them.

[MerlinMama]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

New test version posted.

I get an error when trying to install the latest test version. I downloaded the file twice in case

Spoiler:

calibre, version 2.67.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>ImportError</b>:cannot import name __version_num__

calibre 2.67 [64bit] embedded-python: True is64bit: True
Windows-8-6.2.9200 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '8', '6.2.9200')
Python 2.7.9
Windows: ('8', '6.2.9200', '', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Successfully initialized third party plugins: Job Spy (1, 0, 53) && Kobo Utilities (2, 4, 1) && Save To Format (0, 0, 6) && FanFicFare (2, 3, 6) && Generate Cover (1, 5, 21) && Find Duplicates (1, 6, 2) && Goodreads (1, 1, 11) && EpubMerge (2, 0, 14) && Count Pages (1, 6, 10)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\preferences\plugins.py", line 315, in add_plugin
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\ui.py", line 417, in add_plugin
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\ui.py", line 55, in load_plugin
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\zipplugin.py", line 195, in load
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\zipplugin.py", line 179, in load_module
File "calibre_plugins.fanficfare_plugin.__init__", line 36, in <module>
ImportError: cannot import name __version_num__

[JimmXinu]

I don't know what's going on there for you. Can you reinstall the released version successfully?

__version_num__ is a new change so the PI and CLI get their version numbers from the same place, but I've been using it for over a week now

I downloaded the test zip and confirmed that the appropriate changes are present and that the zip worked for me when installed.

Anybody else seeing this?

Originally Posted by MerlinMama

I get an error when trying to install the latest test version. I downloaded the file twice in case

...
  File "calibre_plugins.fanficfare_plugin.__init__", line 36, in <module>
ImportError: cannot import name __version_num__

[MerlinMama]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

I don't know what's going on there for you. Can you reinstall the released version successfully?

__version_num__ is a new change so the PI and CLI get their version numbers from the same place, but I've been using it for over a week now

I downloaded the test zip and confirmed that the appropriate changes are present and that the zip worked for me when installed.

Anybody else seeing this?

I can reinstall the released version no problem. I did that, then re-downloaded the test version again, and it still didn't work, same error

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by MerlinMama

I can reinstall the released version no problem. I did that, then re-downloaded the test version again, and it still didn't work, same error

I've tried the test version in my OS X virtbox and it works there fine.

Unless someone else reports seeing it too, I think it's something about your computer. We've seen problems installing plugins before that cleared themselves over time or after reboot.

[readerboy7]

Recently, I came across a backup of a now-deleted fic, that someone seems to have downloaded from ffnet using FanFictionDownLoader (yes, I mean FFDL, not FFF), in .txt format. Thus, this post has 2 purposes.

1) Thanks for making and upkeeping FanFictionDownLoader and FanFicFare, both for the ability to conveniently read fics offline, and for the ability to make backups. Thanks to you guys, I downloaded 13 fics before they were deleted from the internet, and some of the fics I have right now will most likely be deleted some day. Because of FFDL and FFF, I can read them anyway, and will continue to be able to do so until my backups fail (i.e. hopefully never). Thank you for giving me the ability to do this.

2) Clearly, the archiver had a good reason for archiving the fic as a .txt file, as he didn't just archive 1 fic, but every fic on FFnet available. That's approximately 105 gigabytes, just as compressed .txt files. (note: archive is here: https://archive.org/details/fanfictiondotnet_repack). A format such as html or epub would increase the file size further, and further increase the time required for making the backup, which would be bad, I assume.
However, this means that a lot of the formatting I enjoy from FFF fics, such as the TOC, doesn't appear when I convert to azw3. I assume there's some way to fix this with calibre's convert books function, or some other method, but I don't know how. Can somebody give me advice? Thanks.

[JimmXinu]

Glad you like the downloader.

Originally Posted by readerboy7

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However, this means that a lot of the formatting I enjoy from FFF fics, such as the TOC, doesn't appear when I convert to azw3. I assume there's some way to fix this with calibre's convert books function, or some other method, but I don't know how. Can somebody give me advice? Thanks.

Recreating structure when converting from text to other formats is outside the scope of discussion for this thread. I suggest reviewing past posts in the Conversion subforum and googling for phrases such as 'calibre convert from text'.

[Mieeka]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

New test version posted (direct link)

2016-09-08
- Adding Update Existing Only option to Email URL Fetch.

Hi Jimm,

While were on the subject of email fetch lists this, would it be possible to skip Anthology's auomatically without having to click "yes" every time?

Mieeka

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Mieeka

While were on the subject of email fetch lists this, would it be possible to skip Anthology's auomatically without having to click "yes" every time?

I can't easily add that option for email fetch only, but I can do it in general.

New test version posted (direct link)

2016-09-18
- Add option to Reject without Confirmation when checking for existing series anthology.