[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by julo

On finestories/scifistories (also SOL) there is a way to download up to three stories per day without having an account. Is there a way to use FFF to download them? And if so how?
Trying to do it without logged in needs User and PW.

I suspect not. It's honestly not something I see as priority if it works with an account.

Also, some stories require a paid account or the story text may be blocked or deliberately corrupted by the site. Search this thread for storiesonline, that's the primary site name as far as FFF is concerned. (Comment for new readers--julo is the one who pointed it out.)

[ownedbycats]

While using Quality Check to find invalid title_sorts, I noticed that fanfics that have their titles "surrounded in quotes" show up as a failed sort, only the closing quotation mark appears in the title_sort. Is this a FFF issue or a Calibre one?

Here's one of the stories it happened on, with the first part replace_metadata'd out: https://archiveofourown.org/works/34520701

I'll PM you another example that doesn't require a replace_metadata (but is also not family-friendly).

[JimmXinu]

Do you have the 'Force Title into Title Sort?' checkbox on? It's on the Standard Columns tab.

Because that's the only way I see that happen. And if you do, it's kind of on you.

[ownedbycats]

No, only for author.

[JimmXinu]

The only time FFF sets title_sort instead of just title is when you have 'Force Title into Title Sort?' checked. (Or "New Only" checked for Title which preserves existing title_sort by setting it to the 'old' value.)

However, it looks like Calibre only updates title_sort if title is actually changed. So if you already have a title_sort value that doesn't match Calibre's algorithm applied to title, you won't get it from an FFF update unless title has changed.

I don't see anything wrong with FFF here.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2023-11-15
- BrowserCache should ignore usecache flag, that's for BasicCache.

For reference:

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

I'm still considering the best solution. I could just reverse that change, but it may be better to instead ignore the usecache flag when use_browser_cache:true. Or maybe only when use_browser_cache_only:true.

usecache is really meant for BasicCache, not BrowserCache.

EDIT: OTOH, perhaps the correct answer is the work around given before: copy/paste or drag-n-drop. Fetching the author page with Get URLs from Web Page gives you their favorite list, not the author's stories. Because both are in the HTML and switched by javascript.

[ownedbycats]

How long does FFF 'wait' for the cache?

I forgot to load a few chapters into cache, then stepped away to play with the cat while letting it download. When I got back I got a 'verify you're human' page in my browser and a failed download because the page wasn't in cache.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

How long does FFF 'wait' for the cache

I assume you mean with open_pages_in_browser:true.

FFF will try to open a page twice, and poll the cache for the page 5 times with lengthening sleeps between ([2, 2, 4, 5, 6]) each cache check. So something like 40 seconds per page? The numbers are fairly arbitrary, but seem to work.

However, if there are more than open_pages_in_browser_tries_limit(default:6) failures in a row for any given domain, FFF will stop trying to open those pages in browser and immediately. But that's only likely to be an issue when downloading several stories from a site, unless you have continue_on_chapter_error:true

Code

[julo]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

It's honestly not something I see as priority if it works with an account.

I beg to differ. Once an account is identified as using/being a bot that account only gets corrupted files, download or just viewing.

[bigwoof]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

I've installed the ffnet app on my phone just to get the notifications.

looks like email notifications just started working again today from about 5 hrs ago..

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by bigwoof

looks like email notifications just started working again today from about 5 hrs ago..

I had a bunch waiting for me this, too. Hopefully it stays fixed.

[ownedbycats]

I got one notification and a nice notice on my ffnet account page that my gmail address had blocked the rest, lol. What email are the rest of you using?

I switched to gmail specifically because Outlook was having issues.

[bigwoof]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

I switched to gmail specifically because Outlook was having issues.

gmail. it just started streaming in from yesterday. looks like it is resending everything (or at least a large portion of it) woke up with 120 emails waiting after clearing about 80 yesterday itself. did not change anything on ffnet itself.. last I saw, I had the same "cannot send email" error.

[ownedbycats]

I did get another story notification this morning, no notification about bounced emails.

New question: For a storyUrl section, do I need the entire ffnet link including the story title?

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

I did get another story notification this morning, no notification about bounced emails.

New question: For a storyUrl section, do I need the entire ffnet link including the story title?

Same, seems to be working again.

No. Works either way.