[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare - Page 691

JDesat · 02-15-2025, 10:14 AM

Not a bug or issue, just a question.

Is there a way to make FFF include parts of titles that are in brackets? I won't link it since it's NSFW on QQ, but there's a new story called "(End)Bringing You A New Home!" and when you download it with FFF the story title on Calibre is just "Bringing You A New Home!" I've noticed this with other fics in the past, but generally I only found those fics once they were done or dead, so I didn't worry about it, but this is a new (and I assume) updating fic.

Thanks!

JimmXinu · 02-15-2025, 12:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JDesat

Is there a way to make FFF include parts of titles that are in brackets? I won't link it since it's NSFW on QQ, but there's a new story called "(End)Bringing You A New Home!" and when you download it with FFF the story title on Calibre is just "Bringing You A New Home!" I've noticed this with other fics in the past, but generally I only found those fics once they were done or dead, so I didn't worry about it, but this is a new (and I assume) updating fic.

In theory, yes. But the defaults settings to create tags from titles are... complex.

Honestly, I just add a section to explicitly set the title when I run into cases like that:

Code:

[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/guided-by-the-light-of-a-red-cameron-star-battletech.1064552/]
add_to_replace_metadata:
 title=>^.*$=>Guided by the Light of a (Red) Cameron Star
 tagsfromtitle=>^ *Red *$=>

JDesat · 02-15-2025, 01:16 PM

Thanks for getting back to me!

ThreeLizards · 02-15-2025, 05:38 PM

Hi!

So I'm trying to edit the title page, cuz I just really like how it looks when you download an AZW3 file from AO3. (Which I included an image of. And it has the summary on a separate page.)

Could I possible have some help recreating that? I attached the code below. I found some of Culterya's stuff again and used that as a basis. I've been at it for a few hours so any help would be appreciated.

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JimmXinu · 02-15-2025, 06:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ThreeLizards

Hi!

So I'm trying to edit the title page, cuz I just really like how it looks when you download an AZW3 file from AO3. (Which I included an image of. And it has the summary on a separate page.)

Could I possible have some help recreating that? I attached the code below. I found some of Culterya's stuff again and used that as a basis. I've been at it for a few hours so any help would be appreciated.

Have you already found the Custom Output wiki page?
You won't be able to get all the tag links AO3 output has--FFF just doesn't record those.
You have have </body></html> in titlepage_entry, they should be in titlepage_end.
<dt> and <dd> tags should be in a <dl> tag. You can add <dl> to titlepage_start and </dl> to titlepage_end.
titlepage_start, titlepage_entry and titlepage_end should be under [epub], or [archiveofourown.org:epub]. (Depending on your settings, it may or may not actually matter.)
FFF doesn't have any way to split description into its own HTML file, but you can use HTML or CSS to tell the reader to page break there. And FFF will include items in titlepage_entries as-is when they don't match a metadata entry.

This works for me and is at least similar:

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TaviCalderon · 02-15-2025, 09:26 PM

chatgpt is full of good ideas, but it has failed me, so i am back again. at the bottom is my full general ini, minus character-specific irrelevant replace_metadata lines, for reference.

the issue: i have set up a MultiSeries custom column, because the calibre default Series column/value field can only show one series. it seems to work, and the titlepages of each work also properly reflect each series [1] [2] etc. as defined by the rules i wrote in my ini. however, for some reason, i am incapable of making replace_metadata rules for multiseries. the works in question have two series tagged to them: one with a "- Recommended Reading Order" at the end of it. this is redundant, so i want to remove that series tag entirely.

i tried both of the below, and each seems to work when not being interfered with by stuff in my [defaults] ini:

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troubleshooting has led me to identify that the specific part of my ini that is causing my issue is something in these three lines:

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if i remove the above lines, everything works just fine. the titlepage & multiseries column both reflect only the one series tag, not the redundant one, which is what i'm going for. but not having these lines (especially the titlepage_entries) screws up the rest of my titlepage. if i add any combination of these back into the ini, it removes everything from the multiseries column entirely, or it keeps the multiseries column in calibre correct but shows both series' on the titlepage, or shows both series' tags on both the titlepage and in the multiseries column, etc. everything gets wonky.

suffice it to say i have tried 11 different iterations of the replace_metadata line in varying degrees of broadness v.s. specificity, deleting works entirely and then redownloading fresh, restarting calibre to make sure ini changes are applied and caches are cleared, manually clearing series & multiseries columns before updating to see what is being overwritten and how, removing & reapplying my entire [defaults] [epub] [html] & [archiveofourown.org] ini sections line by line to identify where things are going wrong, among other things. i cannot figure out a resolution, and both chatgpt & i are out of ideas. i'm sure it's something simple, it usually is, but i'm at a loss and can't find anything relevant even here in the forum for fanficfare.

any ideas of what i'm doing wrong, from anyone here?

relevant personal ini:

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Code:

# Copyright 2015 Fanficdownloader team, 2021 FanFicFare team

[defaults]


title_label:Title
storyUrl_label:Title
author_label:Byline
authorUrl_label:Byline
authorHTML_label:Byline
description_label:Summary
formatname_label:File Format
formatext_label:File Extension
category_label:Category
genre_label:Genre
language_label:Language
characters_label:Characters
ships_label:Relationships
series_label:Series
seriesUrl_label:Series
seriesHTML_label:Series
status_label:Status
datePublished_label:Published
dateUpdated_label:Updated
dateCreated_label:Packaged
rating_label:Rating
warnings_label:Warnings
numChapters_label:Chapters
numWords_label:Words
site_label:Publisher
siteabbrev_label:Site Abbrev
storyId_label:Story ID
authorId_label:Author ID
extratags_label:Extra Tags
version_label:Downloader Version

include_in_publisher:site
publisher_label:Publisher

dateCreated_format:%%m-%%d-%%Y %%H:%%M:%%S
datePublished_format:%%m-%%d-%%Y
dateUpdated_format:%%m-%%d-%%Y

titlepage_entries:series00HTML,series01HTML,series02HTML,series03HTML,series04HTML,<br />,category,ships,characters,<br />,calibre_std_rating,status,rating,warnings,ao3categories,bookmarktags,<br />
extra_titlepage_entries:chapterslashtotal,numWords,bookmarks,kudos,comments,hits,datePublished,dateUpdated,authorHTML,collections,<br />,freeformtags,<br />,description
extra_valid_entries:series00,series01,series02,series03,series04

include_in_series:true
custom_columns_settings:
 series00=>#multiseries,a
 series01=>#multiseries,a
 series02=>#multiseries,a
 series03=>#multiseries,a
 series04=>#multiseries,a

collect_series:true
include_subject_tags:extratags,genre,category,characters,ships,status,series,series00,series01,series02,series03,series04
include_titlepage:true
include_tocpage:true

allow_unsafe_filename:false
output_filename_safepattern:(^\.|/\.|[^a-zA-Z0-9_\. \[\]\(\)&'-]+)
connect_timeout:60.0
conditionals_use_lists:true

keep_summary_html:true
keep_html_attrs:href,name,class,id,colspan,rowspan,data-orighref
remove_class_chapter:true
replace_tags_with_spans:u,big,small
keep_empty_tags:p,td,th
remove_tags:script,style

title_chapter_range_pattern:${title} (Ch ${first}-${last})
strip_chapter_numbers:true
add_chapter_numbers:false
chapter_title_strip_pattern:^[0-9]+[\.: -]+(?=[^0-9]|$)
mark_new_chapters:false
chapter_title_def_pattern:${title}
chapter_title_add_pattern:${number}. ${title}
chapter_title_new_pattern:(new) ${title}
chapter_title_addnew_pattern:${number}. (new) ${title}

anthology_title_pattern:${title} Anthology
anthology_tags:Anthology

sort_ships:true
sort_ships_splits:
 [ ]*/[ ]*=>/
 [ ]*&amp;[ ]*=>\s&amp;\s

user_agent:FFF/4.X
browser_cache_age_limit:4.0
continue_on_chapter_error:false
chapter_title_error_mark:(CHAPTER ERROR)

normalize_text_links:true
fix_relative_text_links:true
internalize_text_links:true
use_basic_cache:true



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[epub]


titlepage_start:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 <head>
 <title>${title}</title>
 <link href="stylesheet.css" type="text/css" charset="UTF-8" rel="stylesheet"/>
 </head>
 <body class="fff_titlepage">
 <h3><a href="${storyUrl}">${title}</a></h3>
 <div>

titlepage_entry:<b class="fff_tp_label" id="${id}_label">${label}:</b> <span class="fff_tp_value" id="${id}_value">${value}</span><br />

wide_titlepage_entries:<b class="fff_tp_label" id="${id}_label">${label}:</b> <span class="fff_tp_value" id="${id}_value">${value}</span><br />

add_to_output_css:
 #description_value {
    font-style: italic;
 }
 div.fff_chapter_notes {
    font-weight: bold;
    }

epub_version:2.0

zip_output:false

include_tocpage:false
include_logpage:false
logpage_at_end:false
logpage_entries:dateCreated,datePublished,dateUpdated,numChapters,numWords,status,series,title,author,description,category,genre,rating,warnings
titlepage_use_table:false

background_color: ffffff

output_css:
 body { background-color: #%(background_color)s;
        text-align: justify;
        margin: 2%%;
	adobe-hyphenate: none; }
 pre { font-size: x-small; }
 h1 { text-align: center; }
 h2 { text-align: center; }
 h3 { text-align: center; }
 h4 { text-align: center; }
 h5 { text-align: center; }
 h6 { text-align: center; }
 .CI {
     text-align:center;
     margin-top:0px;
     margin-bottom:0px;
     padding:0px;
     }
 .center   {text-align: center;}
 .cover    {text-align: center;}
 .full     {width: 100%%; }
 .quarter  {width: 25%%; }
 .smcap    {font-variant: small-caps;}
 .u        {text-decoration: underline;}
 .bold     {font-weight: bold;}
 .big { font-size: larger; }
 .small { font-size: smaller; }


include_images:true
jpg_quality: 95
make_firstimage_cover: true
image_max_size: 580, 725
convert_images_to: jpg
remove_transparency: true
nook_img_fix:true



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[html]


no_image_processing: true

background_color: ffffff

output_css:
 body { background-color: #%(background_color)s; }
 .CI {
     text-align:center;
     margin-top:0px;
     margin-bottom:0px;
     padding:0px;
     }
 .center   {text-align: center;}
 .cover    {text-align: center;}
 .full     {width: 100%%; }
 .quarter  {width: 25%%; }
 .smcap    {font-variant: small-caps;}
 .u        {text-decoration: underline;}
 .bold     {font-weight: bold;}
 .big { font-size: larger; }
 .small { font-size: smaller; }



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## AO3 General Defaults

[archiveofourown.org]


username: *username*
password: *password*
is_adult:true
collect_series: true
always_login:true
use_view_full_work:true

extra_valid_entries:fandoms,freeformtags,ao3categories,comments,chapterslashtotal,kudos,hits,bookmarks,collections,bookmarktags,series00,series01,series02,series03,series04,series00Url,series01Url,series02Url,series03Url,series04Url,series00HTML,series01HTML,series02HTML,series03HTML,series04HTML
category_label:Fandom
fandoms_label:Fandom
freeformtags_label:Additional Tags
ao3categories_label:Genres
comments_label:Comments
chapterslashtotal_label:Chapters
kudos_label:Kudos
hits_label:Hits
collections_label:Collections
bookmarks_label:Bookmarks
bookmarktags_label:Primary Pair

series00HTML_label:Series[1]
series01HTML_label:Series[2]
series02HTML_label:Series[3]
series03HTML_label:Series[4]
series04HTML_label:Series[5]

keep_in_order_ships:true
keep_in_order_category:true
keep_in_order_characters:true
keep_in_order_genre:true
keep_in_order_collections:true
keep_in_order_ao3categories:true
keep_in_order_freeformtags:true

make_linkhtml_entries:series00,series01,series02,series03,series04
include_in_genre: freeformtags, ao3categories
include_in_category:fandoms
include_in_freefromtags:freeformtags
include_in_chapterstotal:chapterslashtotal.NOREPL
add_to_replace_metadata:
 chapterstotal=>^([0-9])+/(.+)$=>\2

slow_down_sleep_time:2



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## General Exclusions
exclude_metadata_pre:
 series=>.*Recommended Reading Order.*
 characters=>.*/.*
 ships=>.*&.*
 characters,ships=>\(Platonic\)
 characters,ships=>Reader
 characters,ships=>You
 characters,ships=>Original Male Character\(s\)
 characters,ships=>Original Male Character
 characters,ships=>Original Female Character\(s\)
 characters,ships=>Original Female Character
 characters,ships=>Original Character\(s\)
 characters,ships=>Original Characters
 characters=>Original Animal Character\(s\)
 characters=>Other Character Tags to Be Added
 characters,ships=>others mentioned
 characters,ships=>others
 characters,ships=>Other\(s\)
 characters,ships=>Original Witcher Character\(s\)
 characters,ships=>Original Dwarf Character\(s\)
 characters,ships=>Original Daemon Character\(s\)
 characters,ships=>Original Nonbinary Character\(s\)
 characters,ships=>Original Non-Binary Character
 characters,ships=>Original Child Character\(s\)
 characters,ships=>Assorted OCs
 characters,ships=>Minor Characters
 category=>Original Work


## General Replacements
replace_metadata:
 series=>.*Recommended Reading Order.*=>
 extratags=>(.*)[FanFiction](.*)=>
 extratags=>.*[Nn]o beta.*=>Not Beta Read
 extratags=>.*[Uu]nbeta.*=>Not Beta Read
 extratags=>.*[Ss]low [Bb]urn.*=>Slow Burn
 extratags=>.*slowburn.*=>Slow Burn
 extratags=>.*[Ff]ix[Ii]t.*=>Fix-It
 extratags=>^[Ff]ix [Ii]t=>Fix-It
 characters=> - Character=>
 characters=>various useless OCs=>
 ships=>\b([^/]+)/([^/]+)=>\1/\2
 characters,ships=>.*[Mm]ention(?:ed| of).*=>
 characters,ships=>.*[Bb]ackground.*=>
 characters,ships=>.*[Pp]ast.*=>
 characters,ships=>.*[Ii]mplied.*=>
 characters,ships=>.*[Rr]elationship.*=>
 characters,ships=>.*[Rr]eferenced.*=>
 characters,ships=>.*[Ee]nsemble.*=>
 characters,ships=>.*[Bb]rief.*=>
 ships=>Original=>
 calibre_std_rating=>1=>★
 calibre_std_rating=>2=>★★
 calibre_std_rating=>3=>★★★
 calibre_std_rating=>4=>★★★★
 calibre_std_rating=>5=>★★★★★


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JimmXinu · 02-15-2025, 10:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TaviCalderon

....

Story URLs?

Without something to test with, I'm not even going to look at something of this complexity.

TaviCalderon · 02-15-2025, 11:10 PM

whoop, knew i forgot something. this is the work in question i've been testing with! any of them in the series would work for testing, though. there's like 45.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/24041545

thanks!

watani · 02-15-2025, 11:33 PM

Is it possible to set FFF to download the fic chapters from the browser cache, but query the actual image links to get images? Cause there are some websites where, while you're forced to use the browser cache to get chapters from fics because they implement (strict) Cloudflare, the images are hosted externally and therefore can be normally queried.

If this were possible, would it provide a solution to how downloading Ao3 fics from cache don't properly include images? Or is that a separate problem?

ThreeLizards · 02-16-2025, 12:09 AM

OMG thank you!

So I took a look at the output code, I even add the CSS that you had on there and set my justification to left

I'm still trying to get a few things working on the title page. I noticed that you had the wide titlepage entry and that's for like tables. So basically it'd be columns right? So how would I set one up for having word count, published date, updated date, and chapters all on one line? and possibly kudos, hits, and bookmarks too.

Oh, and I seem to have lost the summary? It's not showing up on the title page anymore.

And, one more thing, if you don't mind, could I have it say Additional Tags: for the tags? How would I change that? Would that be a simple extravalid entry thing?

Spoiler:

Thank you for all your help! I really appreciate it

zeusosphere · 02-16-2025, 02:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

From the log:

"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.

I tried using the openers_by_scheme tweak and despite copying the code straight from the explanation it didn't work. I realize that is part of calibre and not FFF, but what's interesting is that it broke the ability to open links from the metadata tab (e.g. the URL in the IDs section). I've never had trouble clicking the ID link and having it open a new tab in Firefox before, and resetting the tweak also restored the ability. So I suspect the tweak is not related to the issue. Also FFF does open new tabs in the browser, but I suspect only when the webpage is not found in the cache, not expired. Clearing Firefox's cache means FFF starts opening the webpages again (not that it's helping much... Does this chapter open for anyone else? I've been sporadically getting this error but the story has 12 chapters right now... even though the metadata on the top of the page says 7.)

Meanwhile, selecting the problematic fanfics in Calibre's main browser and trying to update them again results in an immediate termination (usually Fanficfare takes quite a while fetching metadata and so on) and no new listing in the 'job' panel (so the only error logs I'm getting are the basic 'not found or expired in cache' type messages). Updating from email with the same story results in the usual metadata fetching and pages opening in Firefox though. Is this expected behaviour?

Attached job details in case it helps clear anything up：

Spoiler:

I understand that the problems I'm facing may be out of your hands so I'm continuing to report on this issue mostly to try to clarify things. Thanks for all your effort developing and debugging and even dealing with us users.

JimmXinu · 02-16-2025, 09:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by watani

If this were possible, would it provide a solution to how downloading Ao3 fics from cache don't properly include images? Or is that a separate problem?

I don't recall hearing anything about an image problem. If the page is loaded, in theory the images should be cached. Unless the image site specifies no-cache or limited cache time.

Browser Cache is able to get cover/author images from ffnet...

Example story?

JimmXinu · 02-16-2025, 09:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ThreeLizards

I'm still trying to get a few things working on the title page. I noticed that you had the wide titlepage entry and that's for like tables. So basically it'd be columns right? So how would I set one up for having word count, published date, updated date, and chapters all on one line? and possibly kudos, hits, and bookmarks too.

Wide entries only matter if you're using titlepage_use_table:true.

That's some really old code from the early days--as a new user, I wouldn't try to use it. Tables are basically deprecated in HTML.

You're better off using CSS. And you can add ${id} to titlepage_entry if you want to be able to style individual elements:

Code:

titlepage_entry:
 <dt class="${id}"><b>${label}:</b></dt> <dd class="${id}">${value}</dd>

yields:

<dt class="numWords"><b>Words:</b></dt> <dd class="numWords">1,454</dd>

Quote:

Originally Posted by ThreeLizards

Oh, and I seem to have lost the summary? It's not showing up on the title page anymore.

It shows for me using your code. But you need <hr> not </hr> to get the rule.

FYI, please wrap ini blocks in [code] tags when posting to preserve formatting. It matters.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ThreeLizards

And, one more thing, if you don't mind, could I have it say Additional Tags: for the tags? How would I change that? Would that be a simple extravalid entry thing?

You can change the labels settings.

JimmXinu · 02-16-2025, 10:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zeusosphere

Also FFF does open new tabs in the browser, but I suspect only when the webpage is not found in the cache, not expired. Clearing Firefox's cache means FFF starts opening the webpages again (not that it's helping much... Does this chapter open for anyone else? I've been sporadically getting this error but the story has 12 chapters right now... even though the metadata on the top of the page says 7.)

That right there suggests it may be a site problem, not a caching problem...

Quote:

Originally Posted by zeusosphere

Meanwhile, selecting the problematic fanfics in Calibre's main browser and trying to update them again results in an immediate termination (usually Fanficfare takes quite a while fetching metadata and so on) and no new listing in the 'job' panel (so the only error logs I'm getting are the basic 'not found or expired in cache' type messages). Updating from email with the same story results in the usual metadata fetching and pages opening in Firefox though. Is this expected behaviour?

Jobs only happen in the background. If the foreground processing failed, no background job will be launched. So, yes.

You can run Calibre in debug mode (Calibre Preferences dropdown) to see the foreground processing output, too.

Quote:

Originally Posted by zeusosphere

Attached job details in case it helps clear anything up：

Thanks for using spoiler, but lengthy logs are better attached as text files. And when posting smaller log excerpts, wrapped in both [spoiler] and inside that [code] tags.

Quote:

Originally Posted by zeusosphere

I understand that the problems I'm facing may be out of your hands so I'm continuing to report on this issue mostly to try to clarify things. Thanks for all your effort developing and debugging and even dealing with us users.

Fair enough.

JimmXinu · 02-16-2025, 10:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TaviCalderon

the issue: i have set up a MultiSeries custom column, because the calibre default Series column/value field can only show one series. it seems to work, and the titlepages of each work also properly reflect each series [1] [2] etc. as defined by the rules i wrote in my ini. however, for some reason, i am incapable of making replace_metadata rules for multiseries. the works in question have two series tagged to them: one with a "- Recommended Reading Order" at the end of it. this is redundant, so i want to remove that series tag entirely.

First, this line is wrong:

Code:

include_in_series:true

The include_in_X mechanism is for changing what (other) metadata entries are included in X. Setting it 'true' is basically the same as removing the standard series value.

If that is your intention, I suggest clearing it explicitly instead:

Code:

include_in_series:

Quote:

Originally Posted by TaviCalderon

i tried both of the below, and each seems to work when not being interfered with by stuff in my [defaults] ini:

These are both operating on series. "Recommended Reading Order" is in series01.

And you don't need both these exclude_metadata_pre and replace_metadata settings--just one or the other.

exclude_metadata_pre

While exclude_metadata_pre allows '=>' separators, '=~' is preferred. See wiki page. And the .* aren't needed in exclude_metadata_pre.

Code:

exclude_metadata_pre:
 series01,series02,series03,series04=~Recommended Reading Order

replace_metadata

Again, needs to operate on the correct entries:

Code:

replace_metadata:
 series01,series02,series03,series04=>.*Recommended Reading Order.*=>

However, instead of discarding the reading order list, I'd consider renaming it, since it is different:

Code:

replace_metadata:
 series01,series02,series03,series04=>.*(Recommended Reading Order).*(\[\d+\])$=>\1 \2

"The Accidental Warlord and His Pack - Recommended Reading Order [3]" becomes "Recommended Reading Order [3]".

This would conflict with other works having their own reading order series if put in a true series column, but you're putting it in a text column.

I'd also change the first #multiseries in custom_columns_settings to 'r' mode to clear the pre-existing value on update. Otherwise, since it's a text column, you might end up with duplicates. (Depending on the custom column type. A 'tags' type text column could mask that.)

Code:

custom_columns_settings:
 series00=>#multiseries,r
 series01=>#multiseries,a
 series02=>#multiseries,a
 series03=>#multiseries,a
 series04=>#multiseries,a

02-15-2025, 05:38 PM	#10354
ThreeLizards Member Posts: 23 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2025 Device: Kindle Paperwhite 2024	Hi! So I'm trying to edit the title page, cuz I just really like how it looks when you download an AZW3 file from AO3. (Which I included an image of. And it has the summary on a separate page.) Could I possible have some help recreating that? I attached the code below. I found some of Culterya's stuff again and used that as a basis. I've been at it for a few hours so any help would be appreciated. Spoiler: # Add HTML to format the title page titlepage_entries: rating,warnings,ao3categories,fandoms,ships,charac ters,freeformtags,language,description titlepage_start:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>${title} by ${author}</title> <link href="stylesheet.css" type="text/css" charset="UTF-8" rel="stylesheet"/> <meta name="calibre-html-render-data"/> </head> <body> <div class="title"> <h1><a href="${storyUrl}">${title}</a> by ${authorHTML}</h1> </div> titlepage_entry: <dt><b>${label}:</b></dt> <dd>${value}</dd> </body> </html> Attached Thumbnails

02-15-2025, 11:33 PM	#10359
watani Connoisseur Posts: 51 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2014 Device: Kindle Fire HD	Is it possible to set FFF to download the fic chapters from the browser cache, but query the actual image links to get images? Cause there are some websites where, while you're forced to use the browser cache to get chapters from fics because they implement (strict) Cloudflare, the images are hosted externally and therefore can be normally queried. If this were possible, would it provide a solution to how downloading Ao3 fics from cache don't properly include images? Or is that a separate problem? Last edited by watani; 02-16-2025 at 12:14 AM.

02-16-2025, 12:09 AM	#10360
ThreeLizards Member Posts: 23 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2025 Device: Kindle Paperwhite 2024	OMG thank you! So I took a look at the output code, I even add the CSS that you had on there and set my justification to left I'm still trying to get a few things working on the title page. I noticed that you had the wide titlepage entry and that's for like tables. So basically it'd be columns right? So how would I set one up for having word count, published date, updated date, and chapters all on one line? and possibly kudos, hits, and bookmarks too. Oh, and I seem to have lost the summary? It's not showing up on the title page anymore. And, one more thing, if you don't mind, could I have it say Additional Tags: for the tags? How would I change that? Would that be a simple extravalid entry thing? Spoiler: # Add HTML to format the title page titlepage_entries: rating,warnings,ao3categories,fandoms,ships,charac ters,freeformtags,language,collections,kudos,hits, bookmarks,numWords,numChapters,datePublished,dateU pdated,</hr>,description titlepage_start: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>${title} by ${author}</title> <link href="stylesheet.css" type="text/css" charset="UTF-8" rel="stylesheet"/> <meta name="calibre-html-render-data"/> </head> <body> <div class="title"> <a href="${storyUrl}">${title}</a> by ${authorHTML} </div> <dl class="titlepagelist"> titlepage_entry: <dt><b>${label}:</b></dt> <dd>${value}</dd> ## When using tables, make these span both columns. wide_titlepage_entries: storyUrl, author URL,numword, ## ${id}, ${label}, ${value} ## Used with entries listed in wide_titlepage_entries, typically description, storyUrl, authorUrl titlepage_wide_entry: titlepage_end: </dl> </body> </html> Thank you for all your help! I really appreciate it

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02-15-2025, 10:14 AM	#10351
JDesat Connoisseur Posts: 99 Karma: 32768 Join Date: Dec 2012 Device: Kobo Glo HD, Kobo Clara HD	Not a bug or issue, just a question. Is there a way to make FFF include parts of titles that are in brackets? I won't link it since it's NSFW on QQ, but there's a new story called "(End)Bringing You A New Home!" and when you download it with FFF the story title on Calibre is just "Bringing You A New Home!" I've noticed this with other fics in the past, but generally I only found those fics once they were done or dead, so I didn't worry about it, but this is a new (and I assume) updating fic. Thanks!

02-15-2025, 01:16 PM	#10353
JDesat Connoisseur Posts: 99 Karma: 32768 Join Date: Dec 2012 Device: Kobo Glo HD, Kobo Clara HD	Thanks for getting back to me!

02-15-2025, 11:10 PM	#10358
TaviCalderon Enthusiast Posts: 25 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2023 Device: Kindle Scribe	whoop, knew i forgot something. this is the work in question i've been testing with! any of them in the series would work for testing, though. there's like 45. https://archiveofourown.org/works/24041545 thanks!

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