[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare - Page 690

02-14-2025, 12:44 PM	#10336
Lys Groupie Posts: 166 Karma: 727278 Join Date: Dec 2022 Location: Not in an English speaking country Device: (Too many) Kobo(s)	I tried to update a single fic (with/without VPN) from AO3 and I got 525 error for both cases, as well. Yesterday I managed to run the update for 5/6 fics at once without errors (the whole process was just slow).

02-14-2025, 01:26 PM	#10337
Anyssia Enthusiast Posts: 25 Karma: 19112 Join Date: Aug 2012 Device: Kobo Libra2	ToC for one-shot fanfics If I'm not messing up, I use this under [archiveofourown.org] in personal.ini to make a ToC. Code: ## AO3 chapters have 'date' available for each chapter. ## These can be used with custom output (see ## https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFare/wiki/CustomOutput ) or with ## chapter_title__pattern settings. ## Examples for html & epub: #<html> #tocpage_entry: # <a href="#section${index04}">${chapter}</a> ${date}<br /> #<epub> tocpage_entry: <a href="file${index04}.xhtml">${chapter}</a> ${date}<br /><br /> It works for chaptered fics, but does anyone knows if there is a way to force Calibre/FFF to make a ToC even for one-shot fanfics*, please? (also, +1 with a 525 error on anthologies)

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02-14-2025, 04:31 PM	#10338
Subtext Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2014 Device: Onyx boox Nova 2, Kindle Paperwhite 2, Kindle Voyage	I finally managed to update my anthologies by increasing the "slow_down_sleep_time" in ini, it takes ages to start and finish but I didn't get any 525 errors!

02-14-2025, 04:35 PM	#10339
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 11,018 Karma: 75555555 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	I also had it go away, though no changes.

02-14-2025, 04:44 PM

#10340

Anyssia

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Subtext

I finally managed to update my anthologies by increasing the "slow_down_sleep_time" in ini, it takes ages to start and finish but I didn't get any 525 errors!

how far did you go? mine is on 4 at all time

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02-14-2025, 05:19 PM

#10341

beck_liz

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Subtext

I finally managed to update my anthologies by increasing the "slow_down_sleep_time" in ini, it takes ages to start and finish but I didn't get any 525 errors!

I've been unable to download anything with FFF since Wednesday (though the one time I asked it only to update if there were new chapters was the only time I didn't get a 525 error). I changed this setting in .ini from 6.5 to 10, and it now takes awhile, but it works. 10 was a number I chose randomly. So thanks for mentioning that setting!

02-14-2025, 05:57 PM	#10342
nan1923 Enthusiast Posts: 25 Karma: 140 Join Date: Jul 2022 Device: none	What worked for me as a work around for the 525 errors, add in the personal.ini: browser_cache_path:C:\Users\... under [archiveofourown.org] in epub: use_browser_cache:true use_browser_cache_only:true open_pages_in_browser:true and comment your login and password out, if you included that in the personal.ini. If you are logged in in browser that causes an error message. With that you can set sleeptime to 0. I only get errors with anthologies with more then 40 fics then. If that happens, wait a few seconds and then reload those pages in browser and start download again. The only thing not working with that for some reason are pictures. Those you need to add manually in the epub.

02-14-2025, 07:07 PM

#10343

JimmXinu

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Re: CloudFlare

I don't think there's anything specific we can do about it. Either it's CF doing it's thing, or it's a problem between CF and AO3, if cats' link is relevant.

FFF defaults currently has:

Code:

## AO3 is blocking people more aggressively.  If you download fewer
## stories less often you can likely get by with reducing this sleep.
slow_down_sleep_time:2

I can increase that if a larger number works better. Personally, I haven't seen this.

I don't usually recommend BrowserCache for AO3 because it doesn't work with login, but if it works...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Anyssia

It works for chaptered fics, but does anyone knows if there is a way to force Calibre/FFF to make a ToC even for one-shot fanfics, please?

FFF only writes a TOC if there's more than one chapter--that's currently hard coded.

I could add an option to force TOC generation if that's something that's useful to people. I'd need to review what it might do to epub update and anthology generation.

02-14-2025, 07:15 PM	#10344
JimmXinu Plugin Developer Posts: 6,984 Karma: 4604635 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Midwest USA Device: Kobo Clara Colour running KOReader	Error log reported here show this specifically failing during login. Does it work better without always_login:true? Or maybe it's worse on login-required stories? Still nothing we can do to fix it, but it may be possible to avoid more.

02-14-2025, 08:10 PM	#10345
bpothier Member Posts: 20 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2020 Device: Kobo	SOL bug when title contains the word "author" Not sure if this may apply to other adapters, but found the bug I mentioned a few posts back (using current test version in CLI mode makes adding numerous debug calls a bit easier) Simple version: Stories that contain the word "author" in the Title break the "authfrom" code. (This is relative to: adapter_storiesonlinenet.py around line 216) Specifically, when the check of div "top-header" finds the word "author": "if authfrom is None or 'author' not in str(authfrom)" (actually from story title) it uses that for processing the "authfrom" to set "autorID", "authorUrl", etc... When in fact, those values do not exist in the "top-header" so later on when findStoryRow loops the authorUrl[0].. it is blank... and fails with "list index out of range". Testing by forcing it to use the soup.find on 'footer' instead, will correctly process and set values. I looked back and the other story that failed (that I had not dived into issue on) also contained the word "author" in title.. SFW test story: SOL /s/56768 "the-author" Last edited by bpothier; 02-14-2025 at 08:50 PM. Reason: (added SFW story url)

02-14-2025, 09:47 PM	#10346
JimmXinu Plugin Developer Posts: 6,984 Karma: 4604635 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Midwest USA Device: Kobo Clara Colour running KOReader	New Test Version Posted 2025-02-14 - adapter_storiesonlinenet: Remove some code that broke parsing when 'author' was in the title. The SOL adapter was contributed by someone else in 2012. I don't read the site and only ever look at it when it's broken; so I've honestly no idea why it does what it does a lot of the time. But I do remember that it's kind of brittle because the site is old and has three different 'faces', SOL, finestories and scifistories. That bit of code doesn't appear to be doing anything useful anymore. Yes, CLI is very useful for debug, I use it all the time. You might also look at this. Saves tons of network when testing/debugging.

02-15-2025, 01:59 AM	#10347
bpothier Member Posts: 20 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2020 Device: Kobo	initial testing looks good for the "author" fix.

02-15-2025, 03:17 AM

#10348

Subtext

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Anyssia

how far did you go? mine is on 4 at all time

Ohh, I have I might have misunderstood how much I was supposed to increase it by...(though I have even stopped getting errors halfway through 30+ part anthologies...)

02-15-2025, 05:47 AM

#10349

zeusosphere

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Quote:

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

There's a new comment over on github that reminded me about that issue.

A couple different Firefox users have had settings/add-ons that prevented the browser from caching to disk and thus preventing FFF from reading it.

Maybe that will help.

I looked though job details and I suspect the problem is that when FFF finds a page in the cache but it's expired it doesn't open up a new tab to refresh the cache. There's also the fact that I've been getting a lot of 'this chapter/fic doesn't exist' errors from FF.net when (sometimes in the middle of a fic), even long after the fic has been updated. I hope the attached log helps clear things up.

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02-15-2025, 09:52 AM

#10350

JimmXinu

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Quote:

Originally Posted by zeusosphere

From the log:

Code:

This plugin does not support QPlatformServices::openUrl() for 'https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14441326/1/Potter-s-Perfect-Plot'.
QDesktopServices::openUrl() failed for url: PyQt6.QtCore.QUrl('https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14441326/1/Potter-s-Perfect-Plot')

"Plugin" in this case, is not FFF, but a Qt "plugin". That's why it's not opening in the web browser. This has come up before, and on a previous occasion, a user said they could configure a different browser for Calibre specifically.

I've never used that setting, but it appears to be openers_by_scheme in Calibre > Preferences > Tweaks. That may help.

And looking back, I see I suggested that before.

I do not believe there's anything I can do in FFF to help you.

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