[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[JimmXinu]

I already mentioned:

[defaults]

## browser_cache_path needs to be set to the location of YOUR Chrome
## browser cache.  Here are a few examples for different OS.  Note
## that all have YOUR user name in them somewhere as a Chrome Profile
## name, frequently Default.  Make sure you have set (and uncommented)
## appropriately.

## Note also that browser_cache_path goes under [defaults] because
## browser cache is read once and shared between all downloads for
## performance.

## Further note that there is a time cost to first reading the browser
## cache on each download session (not Calibre session)

[ownedbycats]

Yes, I read that. I'm not seeing any indication of whether it only takes one path or not. Example ini has two windows examples.

My line of thinking is that if multiple paths are accepted, and the first one checked becomes unavailable (due to being a different OS or a disconnected external drive or something), that FFF may be just failing instead of checking the other ones.

[ownedbycats]

Also, one of my huge monster fanfics just updated (and hit chapter 666 ). Fetched all four of the new chapters from page cache and I think it ran faster too.

[FiendfyreSnake]

No idea where my previous question went but I'm having an issue where using the replace metadata feature to alter character names also alters the character names within the downloaded fics title page.

The reason for me it's a problem is I use replace metadata to (among other things) force character names into a format that uses Calibre's tag hierarchy within my custom columns.

Under the custom columns settings I have fanficfare fill my custom column called characters with well, characters. Then under personal.ini I have replace metadata rename characters into a format so that Calibre creates subcategories within my custom characters column. That part works great.

 characters=>Harry P\.=>Harry Potter.Harry Potter
 characters=>N\. Tonks=>Harry Potter.Nymphadora Tonks

The issue is that within the fics title page it turns:

Characters: Harry P., N. Tonks
into->
Characters: Harry Potter.Harry Potter, Harry Potter.Nymphadora Tonks

The same issue happens with other columns status (which gets used to fill a "Fic Complete: Yes/No" column)

 status=>Completed=>Yes
 status=>In-Progress=>No

Which on the title page, makes this happen:

Status: In-Progress
Becomes-> 
Status: No

That ones not that bad, especially because I could just update how my custom column works from "Yes/No" to "Complete/Incomplete" or "Complete/In-Progress" but its still annoying and it turns things like pairings nearly unreadable from on the title page. It works great within the custom columns but within the fic on the title page it severely harms readability.

Is there any setting or INI change I could make to alter this behavior? Really I'm just looking for some way to have replace metadata not impact the title page (or what would be even better is only have specific parts of replace metadata alter the title page if thats a thing).

[ownedbycats]

Unfortunately, hierarchicals in replace_metadata does affect the title page; I'm still finding fics labeled as "Fanfiction.Mass Effect."

However, it may be possible to use add_to_extra_valid_entries & include_in_entryname to accomplish what you want. I use it to remap categories to a few broad tags:

replace_metadata: 
## Sorts anything other than a few selected categories into "Fanfiction.Other"
 tagscategory=>^(?!.*(Half-Life|Portal|Mass Effect|The Elder Scrolls|Crossover)).*$=>Other
## Adds Fanfiction. to the beginning of tagcategory
 tagscategory=>^(.*)$=>Fanfiction.\1
## Some more tagcategory standardization
 tagscategory=>(Portal|Half-Life)=>Half-Life & Portal
 tagscategory=>(Mass Effect: Andromeda|Mass Effect Trilogy)=>Mass Effect

include_metadata_post:
## Removes other tags if Crossover is a category
 tagscategory==Fanfiction.Crossover&&category==Crossover

## Adds "Crossover" if more than one category after category replaces/includes/excludes.
add_category_when_multi_category: Crossover

# 'add_to_' concats on to existing param, thus the leading comma
add_to_extra_valid_entries:,tagscategory,

# tagscategory is a copy category for Fanfiction.category in tags
include_in_tagscategory:category
include_subject_tags: tagscategory

[FiendfyreSnake]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

# 'add_to_' concats on to existing param, thus the leading comma
add_to_extra_valid_entries:,tagscategory,

# tagscategory is a copy category for Fanfiction.category in tags
include_in_tagscategory:category
include_subject_tags: tagscategory

In your example what does this do?

include_subject_tags: tagscategory

[ownedbycats]

I'm not 100% sure on this, but I think it's what categories appear as calibre Tags.

Since you're using a custom column, you'd want to use custom_columns_settings instead.

[ownedbycats]

Untested, but I think this is roughly how you'd want to set it up, if I've not made any mistakes*

custom_columns_settings: 
characterlist=>#yourcharactercolumn

replace_metadata: 
## Fix and standardize your character names first
 characters=>Harry P\.=>Harry Potter
 characters=>N\. Tonks=>Nymphadora Tonks

## If you'd like, any characters not listed here can be grouped under "minor characters"
characterlist=>^(?!.*(Harry Potter|Nymphadora Tonks)).*$=>Minor Characters

## Then use a conditional to prefix the fandom - you'll need to do each one individually 
## It may also cause weirdness with crossovers
characterlist=>^(.*)$=>Harry Potter.\1&&category==(Harry Potter)

# 'add_to_' concats on to existing param, thus the leading comma
add_to_extra_valid_entries:,characterlist

#characterlist is a copy category for Fandom.character
include_in_characterlist:characters

*to Jim: apologies in advance if I get this wrong and you need to correct it

There might be a better way to handle the conditional but I'm not sure how do to it.

[FiendfyreSnake]

Okay so I setup http://test1.com?sid=12345

[test1.com]
extracharacters:Harry P.,N. Tonks,Daphne G.,Hermione G.

custom_columns_settings: 
characterlist=>#calibre_cust_charecters

replace_metadata: 
## Fix and standardize your character names first
 characters=>Harry P\.=>Harry Potter
 characters=>N\. Tonks=>Nymphadora Tonks

## If you'd like, any characters not listed here can be grouped under "minor characters"
characterlist=>^(?!.*(Harry Potter|Nymphadora Tonks)).*$=>Minor Characters

## Then use a conditional to prefix the fandom - you'll need to do each one individually 
## It may also cause weirdness with crossovers
characterlist=>^(.*)$=>Harry Potter.\1&&category==(Harry Potter)

# 'add_to_' concats on to existing param, thus the leading comma
add_to_extra_valid_entries:,characterlist

#characterlist is a copy category for Fandom.character
include_in_characterlist:characters

"#calibre_cust_charecters" is what my column apears as under "Show Calibre Column names" in the fanficfare settings

However what you have there still renames the characters on the title page. So I'll continue to play around

Could the characterlist work in replace metadata?

replace_metadata: 
## Fix and standardize your character names first
 characterlist=>Harry P\.=>Harry Potter
 characterlist=>N\. Tonks=>Nymphadora Tonks

[ownedbycats]

EDIT: Got this resolved. See the spoiler.

OK, upon adding it myself (because I like the idea), it's only half-working for me. For some reason, this fails to prefix:

 characterlist=>^(.*)$=>Mass Effect.\1&&category==(Mass Effect: Andromeda|Mass Effect Trilogy)

(I also tried &&category==Mass Effect)

But this works:

 characterlist=>^(.*)$=>Portal.\1&&category==Portal

Did I make a regex error?

EDIT: Looks like a regex error specific to my setup.

Spoiler:

Commenting this line out helped:

replace_metadata:
 category=>(^Mass Effect$|Mass Effect - All Media Types|Mass Effect - Various Authors|Mass Effect: Paragon Lost)=>Mass Effect Trilogy

However, the output matches what I put in as a conditional so I'm not sure what's going on.

Here are some fics I tested with
https://archiveofourown.org/works/17347502
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7443161/1/

And this fic won't prefix even when I do comment out the line - do I need to escape the colon?
https://archiveofourown.org/works/28758381

I'll try messing around with that replace_metadata until it works again.

ANOTHER EDIT: I removed ^Mass Effect$ and it unbroke the conditional for the first two fics. Unfortunately, that's one of my more heavily-used ones. Any ideas what to do?

ANOTHER EDIT: I got it working!

 characterlist=>^(.*)$=>Mass Effect.\1&&category==Mass Effect Trilogy
 characterlist=>^(.*)$=>Mass Effect.\1&&category==Mass Effect: Andromeda

[FiendfyreSnake]

I simplified what you poasted earlier for easier testing for me beacuse I'm not great with regex but this is what I have now:

[test1.com]
extracharacters:Harry P.,N. Tonks,Daphne G.,Hermione G.

custom_columns_settings: 
## Character list
 characterlist=>#charecters

# 'add_to_' concats on to existing param, thus the leading comma
add_to_extra_valid_entries:,oneshot,tagscategory,characterlist

include_in_characterlist:characters

replace_metadata: 
## Fix and standardize your character names first
 characterlist=>Harry P\.=>Harry Potter.Harry Potter
 characterlist=>N\. Tonks=>Harry Potter.Nymphadora Tonks

I'm very interested in your method for bulk fandom prefixing so I'll watch that, but this is working and using a text editor I can quickly update my old ini so thank you a bunch.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by FiendfyreSnake

However what you have there still renames the characters on the title page. So I'll continue to play around

Did you remember to un-assign the character column in Customize > Custom Columns?

Also, if you're only using Update Metadata, that doesn't touch the ePub so a broken title page won't be fixed. Make sure to Update Always instead.

[FiendfyreSnake]

Yes I did, for a while i stuggled to get the characterlist characters to then go into the column until i saw your latest post and saw you where using the Calibre settings #columname instead of the fanficfare "Show Calibre Column Names" list.

withing the ini I changed

 characters=>Harry P\.=>Harry Potter.Harry Potter
to be:
 characterlist=>Harry P\.=>Harry Potter.Harry Potter

This fixed my issue with it changing the title page.

[FiendfyreSnake]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Also, if you're only using Update Metadata, that doesn't touch the ePub so a broken title page won't be fixed. Make sure to Update Always instead.

Is there any way to have it only update the title page instead of the whole fic (temporarily)? I have several hundred that have this issue and I don't really want to try updating such a large number at once.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by FiendfyreSnake

Is there any way to have it only update the title page instead of the whole fic (temporarily)? I have several hundred that have that issue and I don't really want to try updating such a large number at once.

Unfortunately not. Also, any fics that have been deleted from site you'll need to manually edit. The idea of implementing an "update title page from saved metadata" has been brought up, but I think Jim said it was either unfeasible or just not worth the effort.