[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by mehetabelo

So, I'm getting an error since I updated to the last version of the plugin, ...

File "calibre_plugins.fanficfare_plugin.fff_plugin" , line 451, in get_urls_from_imap_menu
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -: 'set' and 'list'
...

That's a bug. I've posted an updated test version.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by firefoxxy

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replace_metadata:
 freeformtags=>^Protective Thor$=>Thor&&freeformtags=>Protectiveness

it does not work. And unlike with "genre", "Warnings", "ships" or similar, the term "freeformtags" does not turn green. Could you give me any suggestions?...

freeformtags and other site specific metadata keywords are not included in the color coding parser because they are technically also metadata that are defined in the ini file. So it doesn't turn green, but it also doesn't turn red.

You can't use the same metadata for the conditional key (the part after &&) and in the replacement key (the part before the first =>). If you try, the conditional is ignored. (Otherwise there would be an infinite recursion and it would crash.)

You could instead use a conditional that refers to a different metadata entry:

replace_metadata:
 freeformtags=>^Protective Thor$=>Thor&&genre=>Protectiveness

[Firedancer885]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

freeformtags and other site specific metadata keywords are not included in the color coding parser because they are technically also metadata that are defined in the ini file. So it doesn't turn green, but it also doesn't turn red.

Jimm, why does this line turn red?

[JimmXinu]

(Site support request)

Unfortunately, neither of these sites are good candidates for FanFicFare.

Originally Posted by jecilop

The Gossamer Project: The X-files FanFiction Archive...

1. The site's own FAQ says it's closed to updates.
2. The site consists of text files, not html files.

Originally Posted by jecilop

Ephemeral - The X-files Fanfic AutoArchive ACTIVE
http://ephemeralfic.org/

1. Site doesn't seem to have any of the usual metadata.
2. The site consists of text files, not html files.

As usual, I won't automatically reject it if somebody else wants to write the code to support these sites, but I'm not going to do it. Sorry.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Firedancer885

Jimm, why does this line turn red?

That's not red--that's purple. Which means the color coder doesn't recognize it but it might still be correct (site specific metadata).

[Firedancer885]

Thanks

[firefoxxy]

Thank you for your help, Jim!

[jecilop]

@JimmXinu
By active, I meant that the site existed and could be navigated. No, it no longer adds new stuff, but it's still the largest and most comprehensive archive of X-files fic.

Thank you for looking for me. I didn't realize items have to be in html format to work. I appreciate your feedback.

I hope I can come across something where it will just download the posts contained even if I have to give the full url. I don't care what format it's in including text from Notepad lacking autoflow formatting. Something automatic is far easier than copy/pasting the page or saving as html or whatever....

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

(Site support request)

Unfortunately, neither of these sites are good candidates for FanFicFare.

1. The site's own FAQ says it's closed to updates.
2. The site consists of text files, not html files.

1. Site doesn't seem to have any of the usual metadata.
2. The site consists of text files, not html files.

As usual, I won't automatically reject it if somebody else wants to write the code to support these sites, but I'm not going to do it. Sorry.

[mehetabelo]

I thought it may be a bug, and I appreciate you fixing it. It seems to be working now. Just had to do stuff manually again for about a dozen stories since it marked them read already.

... You know, that email option made me too damn lazy... that doesn't mean get rid of it though.

[fathertyme]

Disclaimer: I'm an idiot, and probably doing something wrong wrong wrong wrong.

But just in case...

I've been trying to figure out some interaction with the different ways to set covers.

On select books, The author will provide a cover image, I'll set that as the book cover, and then no matter what I do it gets replaced.

If I select "don't update cover" then next time I do an update on that book, the cover just disappears.

I've tried to think of different ways to get this to work, but nothing seems to do the trick.

is this something I'm doing wrong, or is this just the way it is? (or is something borked)

Thanks in Advance

[fathertyme]

separate issue:

storiesonline again:..

I have not updated to the most current beta plugin, but I noticed recently that series information has been messed up.

eg: http://storiesonline.net/s/12051

where it used to return: A Kaire Story

now it returns: A Kaire story — A Universe from the Mind of Ka Hmnd

I'll check out the latest build, but from what I've seen on the update page, this isn't something that was addressed

-Tyme

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by fathertyme

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On select books, The author will provide a cover image, I'll set that as the book cover, and then no matter what I do it gets replaced.
...

Please provide story URLs that exhibit the problem.

[fathertyme]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Please provide story URLs that exhibit the problem.

little tony: http://storiesonline.net/s/11999/little-tony

I gave up on the "use first image" settings, because I got tired of having the damned twitter bird as an cover page :P

but as you can see on the index, he provides an image...

so I saved it, manually set it as the cover...

but then when I updated it (the story is now done, so you'll have to force an update)

the cover gets over-written or flattened

[fathertyme]

heh.. so updated to newest version of plugin:

got this error:

Status: Error
Title: Cold Steele--and Mrs. Robinson
Author: woodmanone
Comment: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'logfile'
URL: http://storiesonline.net/s/12057

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by fathertyme

heh.. so updated to newest version of plugin:

got this error:

Status: Error
Title: Cold Steele--and Mrs. Robinson
Author: woodmanone
Comment: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'logfile'
URL: http://storiesonline.net/s/12057

You're going to have to tell me what you were doing when that happened. Preferably with debug output. (Calibre Prefs->Run in Debug)