[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[ownedbycats]

The replace_metadata for this fic is giving me a bit of hassle.

Half-Life (Video Games), Game: Black Mesa (Half-Life) - Fandom

replace_metadata:

 category=> \([0-9]+\)| \(Video Game\)| \(Video Games\)| (|- Fandom\(Movies\)|\(Movie [0-9]+\)| \(Comics\)| \(TV\))$=>
 category=>(Half-Life: Decay|Hunt Down The Freeman|Half-Life 2|Half-Life Opposing Force|Half-Life: Alyx|Half Life|Game: Black Mesa \(Half-Life\))=>Half-Life

gives me: Crossover, Half-Life, Half-Life - Fandom

The "Black Mesa (Half-Life)" bit got replaced as expected, but why didn't " - Fandom" get removed by the first line?

[JimmXinu]

Because the pattern matches - Fandom\(Movies\) but not - Fandom.

If your intention is reduce all variants of Half-Life to just Half-Life, rather than matching each variant, you could do:

replace_metadata:
 ^.*(Half-Life).*$=>\1

# case insensitive version, match half-life, Half-life, half-lIFE, etc
replace_metadata:
 (?i)^.*(Half-Life).*$=>Half-Life

[ownedbycats]

Oops. I see that now. I think my brain transposed the characters while I was looking at it.

Would changing it to "Half.Life" also capture that one "Half Life" in there?

EDIT: Actually no, it'd put "Half Life" back. I'll put it in the other replacement regex for the extra stuff (Black Mesa, Hunt Down the Freeman).

[marshie250]

With an anthology, is it possible to, instead of averaging the kudos count, take only the highest kudos count from one of the stories?

Or along a similar vein, can you pull the most recent update date instead of the update date from the newest installment? Sometimes authors update stories within their anthologies out of order, so the calibre "update" date isn't always accurate.

[Amalthia]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Because the pattern matches - Fandom\(Movies\) but not - Fandom.

If your intention is reduce all variants of Half-Life to just Half-Life, rather than matching each variant, you could do:

replace_metadata:
 ^.*(Half-Life).*$=>\1

# case insensitive version, match half-life, Half-life, half-lIFE, etc
replace_metadata:
 (?i)^.*(Half-Life).*$=>Half-Life

Hi, is there a guide on regex that you use in FanFiction downloader? I read through the Calibre regex tutorial and I didn't see the use of "\1" so I'm not sure what that does.

Thanks,
Amalthia

[ownedbycats]

Take a look at this:
https://regex101.com/r/BgWNVN/1

Note that the regex captures all three examples, but only "Half-Life" is in the capture group. In a regex substitution, \1 simply puts the selected group back in.

[Amalthia]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Take a look at this:
https://regex101.com/r/BgWNVN/1

Note that the regex captures all three examples, but only "Half-Life" is in the capture group. In a regex substitution, \1 simply puts the selected group back in.

Thanks! I've been using some of these codes with no clue why the worked.

[ownedbycats]

regex101 has helped me a lot to the point where (with permission) I added it to this page.

[Amalthia]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

regex101 has helped me a lot to the point where (with permission) I added it to this page.

Awesome tool! I had no idea this existed. I'm definitely bookmarking the site.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by marshie250

With an anthology, is it possible to, instead of averaging the kudos count, take only the highest kudos count from one of the stories?

Or along a similar vein, can you pull the most recent update date instead of the update date from the newest installment? Sometimes authors update stories within their anthologies out of order, so the calibre "update" date isn't always accurate.

I assume we're talking about for custom_columns_settings here?

No. You can have the sum (default), or the average, but that's all under the current code.

Are there other users who'd like a 'highest' option for anthologies and numeric custom columns?


FFF should be using the newest (or greatest) dateUpdated value from all included stories for the anthology's dateUpdated value, not the last in the last.

If you have an example of an anthology that doesn't, please post the URL (or PM to me if NSFW).

[marshie250]

I just rechecked the anthology I had in mind, and it looks like I misread the date--that's on me!

And yes, I was referring to the custom columns settings. I was thinking that a "highest" option would be valuable when sorting by kudos count, as some anthologies have a main, high-rated story with a much lower one-off that drives down the average, but a sum would throw off the comparison with anthologies with many equally-rated stories.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2023-01-17
- Add r_anthmax/n_anthmax options for custom_columns_settings
- Fixed the Deviantart adapter not detecting that a Deviation is Marked as needing a login, thanks bugmaschine

[marshie250]

The r_anthmax option worked beautifully; thank you!

[ownedbycats]

Small encoding bug?

When downloading this oneshot, the title of the only chapter (not the fic title in general) ends up as"Fire &; Ice"

[JimmXinu]

2023-01-20
- Fix for & in chapter title.


A workaround for a workaround that apparently isn't always needed.