[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by readerboy7

Occasionally, a story thread on SpaceBattles (SB) will link to story posts omakes on SufficientVelocity (SV) or vice versa. When this happens, the omakes in the other forum don't get downloaded, which I find annoying. I can see that, generally speaking, getting FFF to follow every link would be a bad idea, but is it possible to edit my personal.ini so that FFF follows crosslinks to SV from SB and vice versa?

There's no such configuration, no.

While technically possible, it would break the 'silo' walls between the adapters for different sites to allow 'chapters' to be on other sites. And lots of stories also link to a copy on the other site as well, which would leave you with two copies of the index/first chapter instead. It would also lead to difficulties if/when the different xenforo forum sites diverge more.

[readerboy7]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

There's no such configuration, no.

While technically possible, it would break the 'silo' walls between the adapters for different sites to allow 'chapters' to be on other sites. And lots of stories also link to a copy on the other site as well, which would leave you with two copies of the index/first chapter instead. It would also lead to difficulties if/when the different xenforo forum sites diverge more.

So basically, I should wait until the story is completed/probably abandoned, then download copies from both sites and use something along the lines of EpubMerge and Calibre's Edit Book? Thanks for the info.

[Tanjamuse]

When I merge duplicates, is there a way to combine the authors from all the books?

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Tanjamuse

When I merge duplicates, is there a way to combine the authors from all the books?

I'm going to need a more detailed description of what you mean...

[Tanjamuse]

When I download stories from different sites, the penname is not always the same for a specific author.

I order to keep track on what's on my cloud library, I need a way to keep all the pennames/authors for one story, even if it's different from one site to another.

Does that make more sense?

[snakeling]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Glad you like it.
snarry.net has been requested before. It's very small (279 stories) and it isn't 'bog standard' enough that the eFiction base adapter will work. So I'm not interested in coding support for it myself.

No problems, I'll just "print" the whole story and convert it from there. I'd forgotten about that option, and having to download dozens of chapters was my main problem anyway.

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Actually, it isn't. For reasons I've never completely understood, the Calibre Edit Book feature chooses (by default) to hide the internal file paths from you as much as it can, which translates to hiding the path of the first merged book.

That makes it even weirder that the Pocketbook software can find the first subfolder but not the others, then...

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Flattening the anthology epub would break the un-merge functionality that's used for updating existing anthology epub. And the epub structure is correct according to standard. So as long as you have a work around that works, I'd prefer not to.

Flattening breaks the update anthology function, too, alas. I'm going to see if I can bug the Pocketbook/TEA people into making their software work :P

Thanks for the answers

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Tanjamuse

When I download stories from different sites, the penname is not always the same for a specific author.

I order to keep track on what's on my cloud library, I need a way to keep all the pennames/authors for one story, even if it's different from one site to another.

Does that make more sense?

Since FanFicFare has no way to tell the difference between (same-story, different-site, different-author) and (different-story, different-site, different-author), I can't think of an automated solution.

Manual solutions that come to mind are:

• Add a custom column to populate with extra author names. Possible a long text column that you can use to also link to the author/story on the other site.
• Set Authors to 'New Only' in the Standard Columns tab of FanFicFare config (so updates don't change it) and manually manage the authors column.
• Set Comments to 'New Only' in the Standard Columns tab of FanFicFare config (so updates don't change it) and manually append links to the author/story on the other site to Comments.
• Configure each 'duplicate' story in replace_metadata to add the other authors.
• Configure each author with 'duplicate' stories in replace_metadata to change to a combined name. IE, author is 'DeltaV' on one site and 'ChangeofVelocity' on another; use replace_metadata to change one(or both) to ''DeltaV-ChangeofVelocity'.

[Tanjamuse]

Thanks.

Is there anyway to move metadata from one column to another batch?

[JimmXinu]

Calibre's Edit Metadata Find and Replace.

[JimmXinu]

New test version posted (direct link)

2016-07-17
- Include 'prefix' tags in forumtags in base_xenforoforum.
- Save addheaders when setting cookiejar. For ffnet referer.

[JimmXinu]

Version 2.3.5 - 22 Jul 2016

• Change ffnet metadata colletion to allow for chars with (' - ') in them.
• Fix for SIYE when author puts story URL in bio.
• Allow old goto/post chapter URLs in base_xenforoforum.
• Remove Django from app.yaml--old version going away. (Webservice only)
• Add n_anthaver and r_anthaver modes to custom_columns_settings for averaging metadata for anthologies before setting in integer and float calibre custom columns. (Plugin only)
• Include 'prefix' tags in forumtags in base_xenforoforum.
• Save addheaders when setting cookiejar. For ffn referer.
• Update translations. (Plugin only)

[Mandabar]

Hmm... Is there any option yet for getting an entire story off of SB/SV that has no index or threadmarks? Mainly this is focused on story-only archive posts where every post is part of the story.

I guess you could tell it to do all posts between #1-#?. Kinda like the Vote Tally program by Kinematics can do for counting votes? It can search every post after the last threadmark or look between two post #'s you give.

His app is here on github: https://github.com/Kinematics/NetTally

Not an easy solution to this I know. Just throwing something out there

That or I just need figure out how to do it manually I guess.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Mandabar

Hmm... Is there any option yet for getting an entire story off of SB/SV that has no index or threadmarks? Mainly this is focused on story-only archive posts where every post is part of the story.
...

This has been discussed before:

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

I've looked at that a couple times and thrown my hands up each time. The forum paradigm (without threadmarks or an index post) is significantly different from the story & chapters paradigm FanFicFare uses. Should posts be chapters? Or pages?

And then there's the issue of over-use; because inevitably someone(s) would decide to use it to archive the entirety of all their favorite long discussion threads. If enough people start doing that, it's likely to use significant server resources, drawing attention from the admins and possibly prompting them to block the tool.

[lumlydwt]

got a new one for you... (effects fanfic.net,TtH,hpfanficarchive) it was working well all day then after midnight my time (US Central) I started to get this error

calibre says epub updated but metadata was not

I even tried uninstalling and reinstalling FanFicFare (to make sure of updates)

example url
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1151519...Deadman-s-Hand



here's what was copied to my clipboard


calibre, version 2.63.0
ERROR: Error Updating Metadata: <p>An error has occurred while FanFicFare was updating calibre's metadata for <a href='https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11515192/1/'>Second World: Deadman's Hand</a>.</p>The ebook has been updated, but the metadata has not.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre_plugins.fanficfare_plugin.fff_plugin" , line 1543, in update_books_loop
File "calibre_plugins.fanficfare_plugin.fff_plugin" , line 2133, in update_metadata
File "calibre_plugins.generate_cover.action", line 163, in generate_cover_for_book
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\magick\draw.py", line 64, in save_cover_data_to
File "ntpath.py", line 199, in splitext
File "genericpath.py", line 91, in _splitext
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'rfind'

Story Details:tags:
[u'In-Progress', u'Harry Potter', u'FanFiction', u'James Bond', u'Adventure', u'Suspense']
good:
True
comment:
Update epub completed, added 1 chapters for 18 total.
publisher:
www.fanfiction.net
is_adult:
False
calibre_columns:

calibre_series:
(u'Second World', 2.0)
series:
Second World [2]
showerror:
True
begin:
None
added:
False
author_sort:
[u'Deadlandmarshal']
listorder:
0
updatedate:
2016-07-29 22:34:14-05:00
pubdate:
2015-09-19 13:43:14-05:00
all_metadata:
language:
English
title:
Second World: Deadman's Hand
rating:
M
site:
www.fanfiction.net
langcode:
en
storyId:
11515192
authorId:
3868178
extratags:
FanFiction
numChapters:
18
cover_image:
specific
description:
Harry is entering into a new phase of his life, now all bets are off! Who will be left holding the Deadman's Hand? Edited by the mighty Pazed!
datePublished:
2015-09-19 13:43:14
ships:

lastupdate:
Last Update Year/Month: 2016/07, Last Update: 2016/07/29
series:
Second World [2]
authorUrl:
https://www.fanfiction.net/u/3868178/Deadlandmarshal
authorHTML:
<a class='authorlink' href='https://www.fanfiction.net/u/3868178/Deadlandmarshal'>Deadlandmarshal</a>
dateUpdated:
2016-07-29 22:34:14
author:
Deadlandmarshal
output_css:

body { background-color: #ffffff;
text-align: justify;
margin: 2%;
adobe-hyphenate: none; }
pre { font-size: x-small; }
sml { font-size: 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; }
formatext:
.epub
category:
Harry Potter, James Bond
dateCreated:
2016-07-30 00:44:10
numWords:
41,490
follows:
285
seriesHTML:
Second World [2]
siteabbrev:
ffnet
warnings:

status:
In-Progress
seriesUrl:

characters:

storyUrl:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11515192/1/
reviews:
97
formatname:
epub
favs:
219
genre:
Adventure, Suspense
version:
FanFicFare v2.3.5
end:
None
site:
www.fanfiction.net
epub_for_update:

url:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11515192/1/
author:
[u'Deadlandmarshal']
calibre_id:
8609
outfile:

username:
(was set, removed for security)
status:
Update
comments:
<p>Harry is entering into a new phase of his life, now all bets are off! Who will be left holding the Deadman's Hand? Edited by the mighty Pazed!</p>
timestamp:
2016-07-30 00:44:10.300000-05:00
title:
Second World: Deadman's Hand
icon:
edit-redo.png

[Tanjamuse]

I've created a custom column for authors, and I would like it to be separated by &.

I'm not sure what to put in my personal.ini, because the following doesn't work:

join_string_authors:\s&\s

It's purple in the personal.ini, if that makes a difference.