[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[AmberDragon]

Is there a way to use the "%" character in passwords in personal.ini? I was updating a password and got this error message (pulled from the clipboard with the password section after the "%" scrubbed):

calibre, version 8.4.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>InterpolationSyntaxError</b>:'%' must be followed by '%' or '(', found: '%[pw part removed]'

[ThreeLizards]

Hi!

Alright, so this is what I get whenever I try to download an anthology

ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>HTTPErrorFFF</b>:HTTP Error in FFF '525 Server Error:  for url: https://archiveofourown.org/users/UserName'(525) URL:'https://archive.transformativeworks.org/users/login'

(FYI, it had my AO3 username in there, I removed that, that's why it says UserName)

And then there's a bunch of stuff under that about the plugins that I've got installed (fanficfare, epubmerge, countpages, generate cover, action chains)

Also, this is what I'm using the for get passed AO3's issues right now

use_archive_transformativeworks_org:true

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by AmberDragon

Is there a way to use the "%" character in passwords in personal.ini? I was updating a password and got this error message (pulled from the clipboard with the password section after the "%" scrubbed):

calibre, version 8.4.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>InterpolationSyntaxError</b>:'%' must be followed by '%' or '(', found: '%[pw part removed]'

Double the % to escape it.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ThreeLizards

Hi!

Alright, so this is what I get whenever I try to download an anthology

ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>HTTPErrorFFF</b>:HTTP Error in FFF '525 Server Error:  for url: https://archiveofourown.org/users/UserName'(525) URL:'https://archive.transformativeworks.org/users/login'

(FYI, it had my AO3 username in there, I removed that, that's why it says UserName)

And then there's a bunch of stuff under that about the plugins that I've got installed (fanficfare, epubmerge, countpages, generate cover, action chains)

Also, this is what I'm using the for get passed AO3's issues right now

use_archive_transformativeworks_org:true

AO3's continuing problems. archive.transformativeworks.org doesn't allow login. See: https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFa...s#mirror-sites

Either try use_archiveofourown_gay, remove/comment out the username setting in personal.ini (if that series doesn't need login), or try Browser Cache instead.

[AmberDragon]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Double the % to escape it.

Thanks!

[ThreeLizards]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

AO3's continuing problems. archive.transformativeworks.org doesn't allow login. See: https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFa...s#mirror-sites

Either try use_archiveofourown_gay, remove/comment out the username setting in personal.ini (if that series doesn't need login), or try Browser Cache instead.

omg, just commenting out the username fixed it. Thank you!

[Snippet1576]

i feel like an idiot, but i can't get the plugin to consistently download from spacebattles... i get this error when i try

HTTP Error in FFF '403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://forums.spacebattles.com/login'(403)
https://forums.spacebattles.com/thre...ission.787978/

but for some stories i've downloaded before, it seems to pull new chapters correctly... what am i doing wrong?

[JimmXinu]

That story doesn't appear to require login. Do you have always_login:true set without username/password?

Other than that, had you done a lot of downloads before that happened? Sometimes sites block (usually temporarily) 'too many' requests.

[ownedbycats]

Question: I have AO3's orphan_account set to replace to "Unknown."

If I also want to add an ao3:orphaned tag to a column by duplicating the entry, way to do that before the replace_metadata? I don't appy to Unknown directly as it also covers Anonymous.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Question: I have AO3's orphan_account set to replace to "Unknown."

If I also want to add an ao3rphaned tag to a column by duplicating the entry, way to do that before the replace_metadata? I don't appy to Unknown directly as it also covers Anonymous.

Use .NOREPL in the include_in_X.

[chicleeblair]

I've updated everything, tried it both logged in and logged out, with use_browser_cache true and false (always use browser cache false) but I'm getting this:

Status
Title
Author
Comment
URL
Error
Love
Unknown_user74
HTTP Error in FFF '525 Server Error: <none> for url: https://archiveofourown.org/works/47...60089'(525) URL:'https://archiveofourown.org/works/47021881?view_adult=true'
https://archiveofourown.org/works/47021881

Tried via email updates and maually updating from calibre. I know it's a cloudfare thing, and I've got slow_down_sleep_time:4 in my defaults, but beyond that I don't know what to do.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2025-06-05
- Ignore use_browser_cache_only when URL scheme is file
- Update translations.

[JimmXinu]

New New Test Version Posted

2025-06-05
- OTW(AO3): Don't attempt login with use_archive_transformativeworks_org or open_pages_in_browser #1210
- Ignore use_browser_cache_only when URL scheme is file
- Update translations.

[taratears]

Is there a way to set it to automatically pull pdf/html/epub, or is it better to get one of those and then covert it, after the fact? Thank you.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by taratears

Is there a way to set it to automatically pull pdf/html/epub, or is it better to get one of those and then covert it, after the fact? Thank you.

FanFicFare's most 'native' format is epub. It can contain images and allows for updating. That's what I recommend, even for users who then convert to azw3 for Kindle, or other formats for other uses.