[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[eschwartz]

If I enable background updating of metadata, and have FFF set to "Overwrite when newer", it will overwrite all selected books regardless. (I backed out of the changes and retried without backgrounding the metadata update, and most of them no longer updated.)

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

If I enable background updating of metadata, and have FFF set to "Overwrite when newer", it will overwrite all selected books regardless. (I backed out of the changes and retried without backgrounding the metadata update, and most of them no longer updated.)

Thanks for pointing that out.

New test version posted (direct link)

2016-04-04
- Fix for Overwrite if Newer not working with BG Metadata.

[thatblondelady]

I'm having problems making or updating anthologies on my mac, running mavericks, with current FFF, EpubMerge, and Calibre.

I start the process, it does the download step, then when it gets to the step where epubmerge would be called, nothing happens, and the job stops. I've tried reinstalling calibre, FFF, EpubMerge. It's any anthology on any site, so it's not a function of what it's downloading. It only fails on my macbook, and works fine on windows (Windows 10, everything else current). I'm not really sure what would be helpful in troubleshooting or whatever else I can try. Any ideas?

Edit: The book is added to calibre, but blank. Clicking on it gives a no available formats error.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by thatblondelady

I'm having problems making or updating anthologies on my mac, running mavericks, with current FFF, EpubMerge, and Calibre.
...

I don't know of anything mac specific that should be a problem. Unfortunately, I also do not have a mac available to test with.

First, try running calibre in debug mode (it's an option in the Preferences drop down) and see if you can get a debug log.

Also, try downloading some stories individually and then use EpubMerge manually to merge them together. Ideally also in debug mode.

Then please post the log(s) here. Thanks.

[thatblondelady]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

I don't know of anything mac specific that should be a problem. Unfortunately, I also do not have a mac available to test with.

First, try running calibre in debug mode (it's an option in the Preferences drop down) and see if you can get a debug log.

Also, try downloading some stories individually and then use EpubMerge manually to merge them together. Ideally also in debug mode.

Then please post the log(s) here. Thanks.

Interesting. I can update anthologies in debug mode, but not in regular mode. I just confirmed it twice. I randomly chose http://archiveofourown.org/series/291293 as a series to create an anthology from. Debug mode: creates just fine. Regular mode? failure. Deleted it and started over and reproduced the same again. Is a log of any value in this situation? I have it.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by thatblondelady

Interesting. I can update anthologies in debug mode, but not in regular mode. I just confirmed it twice. I randomly chose http://archiveofourown.org/series/291293 as a series to create an anthology from. Debug mode: creates just fine. Regular mode? failure. Deleted it and started over and reproduced the same again. Is a log of any value in this situation? I have it.

Hmmm. That suggests something I've seen before. Yes, the log would still help. I suspect it may have to do with the debug output itself.

[thatblondelady]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/n6onb91ix5...CfnRR.txt?dl=0

Here you go. I searched for error, and found nothing relevant.

[JimmXinu]

New test version posted (direct link)

2016-04-06
- Comment out some debug output. Might help with Mac issue?
- Updates to adapter_literotica from davidfor with help testing from version365.
- Update Translations.

This might help with thatblondelady's mac issue. But it might not. It's really hard to debug problems that don't show up in debug.

There are some new literotica.com options and improvements (thanks davidfor and version365).

[literotica.com]

## Extract more erotica_tags from the meta tag of each chapter
use_meta_keywords: true

## For multiple chapter stories, attempt to clean up the chapter title. This will
## remove the story title and change "Ch. 01" to "Chapter 1", "Pt. 01" to "Part 1"
## or just use the text. If this can't be done, the full title is used.
clean_chapter_titles: false

## Add the chapter description at the start of each chapter.
description_in_chapter: false

[thatblondelady]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

New test version posted (direct link)

2016-04-06
- Comment out some debug output. Might help with Mac issue?
- Updates to adapter_literotica from davidfor with help testing from version365.
- Update Translations.

This might help with thatblondelady's mac issue. But it might not. It's really hard to debug problems that don't show up in debug.

I'll test it as soon as feasible and let you know. Thank you for trying either way.

Edit: I was able to install the test version, and i still get the same result. I know there's probably not a lot that can be done, but there's the info.

[thecookiemommma]

So, I don't know if this is a FFF thing or a EpubMerge thing, but when I update anthologies that have a new story in them, the story doesn't get added to the list in the description. It's a small thing, but when I update one that has several new stories added, it's kind of hard to remember where it's stopped.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by thecookiemommma

So, I don't know if this is a FFF thing or a EpubMerge thing, but when I update anthologies that have a new story in them, the story doesn't get added to the list in the description. It's a small thing, but when I update one that has several new stories added, it's kind of hard to remember where it's stopped.

FFF only sets the calibre comments when an anthology is first created. It doesn't update the comments because it's assumed that the user will set it to the series description themselves and then not want FFF overwriting that.

[ArthropodSultan]

I recently discovered the incredibly useful '--normalize-list' option for the CLI version of FanFicFare. Would it be possible to have this option, or one like it, also operate on a given html file? I currently have a lot of stories bookmarked in my browser that I would like to move over to managing with FanFicFare in Calibre. However, I have yet to find a way to extract all the relevant URLs from my bookmarks. I can export all my bookmarks to an html file though.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ArthropodSultan

I recently discovered the incredibly useful '--normalize-list' option for the CLI version of FanFicFare. Would it be possible to have this option, or one like it, also operate on a given html file? I currently have a lot of stories bookmarked in my browser that I would like to move over to managing with FanFicFare in Calibre. However, I have yet to find a way to extract all the relevant URLs from my bookmarks. I can export all my bookmarks to an html file though.

Assuming that I've exported my bookmarks to:
E:\jimm\Downloads\bookmarks.html

Then you can use a file URL like so:

fanficfare -n "file:///E:/jimm/Downloads/bookmarks.html"

[JimmXinu]

New test version posted (direct link)

2016-04-14
- Catch more img tag exceptions.
- Fix series/universe processing in adapter_storiesonlinenet.
- Fix for literotica.com using str() instead of unicode().
- Update Translations.

[blake98]

Hi Jim,

I ran into the following error when I tried to get a specific story on literotica
status:bad
title:unknown
author:unknown
comment:could not convert string to float: x.xx
url:<remove>

I also tried with the 'test version' you posted on 04-14-2016 with no success. is this something that you could look at?

Thanks,
Blake