[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[ownedbycats]

To test that your browser cache is setup right, you can use use_browser_cache_only:true under the ffnet override section. It'll prevent it from falling back to network fetch.

[steltek]

Originally Posted by tricklem

Thanks! Hopefully I did that right.

Also, if you use multiple web browsers, you can enter the cache paths of all of them you have installed in Personal.ini and just deactivate all of them except the one you want to use. You would deactivate them by commenting each line out (i.e. placing a # character right in front of that line).

Doing this makes it relatively easy to switch browsers on the fly by quickly editing Personal.ini if you have a browser problem (or if one stops working for some reason) as you only have to remove the # character from the browser you intend to use and add the # character in front of the cache path for the prior browser.

[ownedbycats]

Question: is anybody else getting a glitch where clicking "view details" after an update opens two details windows?

[JimmXinu]

Only if I double click it. Or any number of times if you keep clicking it.

(Which has happened, when the log takes a moment to appear and I click again thinking it didn't take.)

That's a Calibre dialog box, all I control is what text appears in it. You'd have to ask Kovid about only opening one copy of the log. Note also that the log can be kept open even after you've clicked yes or no.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2021-02-09
- fanficauthors.net doesn't use login anymore. Closes #651
- BG % done by stories AND chapters.

UPDATE:
Looks like I didn't actually attach the zip before. Ooops.

But that does mean I don't feel back updating it again.

Plugin background job Status (0-100%) will now update by story AND chapter.

What that means is that the 100% is divided first by the number of stories in the download, THEN that section is updated as each chapter finishes.

So if you download 2 stories from one site, and one has 1 chapter and the second has 50 chapters, the status will jump from 0% to 50% when the 1 chapter story finishes, but then tick up 1% at a time for each of the second story's chapters.

But if you are downloading from more than one site, those will download in parallel, so you might see a significant percent 'done' before any stories have finished. I just saw 75% done with 0 of 4 finished with 4 different sites running in parallel.

Yes, I considered doing the percent by total chapters, but that information isn't available at the higher level. It's not happening right now.

FYI, just tested and it doesn't work on Cal 2.85.1. Not sure about versions in between.

UPDATE2:

Fixed for py2.

And in case it wasn't obvious, for a single download, the BG status will just be showing 0-100% done by chapters.

[slantybard]

I notice that when using FFF for multiple stories from links where I paste each onto a new line, that if I accidentally click outside of the FFF window it goes behind calibre’s main window. The problem is that alt-tab/com-tab won’t bring the FFF window back to the front and there is no window menu in calibre to get the FFF window back to the front either. I’ve tried to click on the FFF menu to get the window back to no avail. I’m forced to use mission control on the Mac to get back to the FFF window to download fics. Not sure if this is considered a bug or just a side effect of the plug in architecture.

[ownedbycats]

As it doesn't happen on Windows, it may be a Mac-specific bug with child window focus, and likely more controlled by Calibre/Qt itself than FFF.

You can file a bug report here.

[ownedbycats]

Question: is there a way to set generate_cover_settings for title length?

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by slantybard

I notice that when using FFF for multiple stories from links where I paste each onto a new line, that if I accidentally click outside of the FFF window it goes behind calibre’s main window. The problem is that alt-tab/com-tab won’t bring the FFF window back to the front and there is no window menu in calibre to get the FFF window back to the front either. I’ve tried to click on the FFF menu to get the window back to no avail. I’m forced to use mission control on the Mac to get back to the FFF window to download fics. Not sure if this is considered a bug or just a side effect of the plug in architecture.

Have you tried FFF's "Keep 'Add New from URL(s)' dialog on top?" option?

That's all I can offer you from FFF as far as I know.

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Question: is there a way to set generate_cover_settings for title length?

Look at {} in regular expressions. For example, .{5,10} will match between 5 and 10 characters.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2021-02-10
- Fix adapter_webnovelcom for some site changes. Closes #644
- Bump default user_agent to upcoming FFF/4.X.
- Allow tweak_fg_sleep etc with any site, add defaults settings for basexenforo, fictionalley and fictionpress.

[ownedbycats]

Thank you.

I noticed that a text/html; charset=UTF-8 RSS feeds from AO3 have started dropping eml paths again. They worked before. Here's an example - no special characters.

Spoiler:

X-Mozilla-Status: 0041
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
X-Mozilla-Keys:                                                                                 
Received: by localhost; Wed, 10 Feb 2021 07:21:52 -0400
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 11:15:58 GMT
Message-Id: <tag:archiveofourown.org,2005:Work/29331450@localhost.localdomain>
From: <a rel="author" href="/users/arboresce/pseuds/arboresce">arboresce</a>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Subject: when neighbors start talking
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Base: https://archiveofourown.org/works/29331450
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

<html>
  <head>
    <title>when neighbors start talking</title>
    <base href="https://archiveofourown.org/tags/15764445/feed.atom">
  </head>
  <body id="msgFeedSummaryBody" selected="false">
    <p>by <a rel="author" href="/users/arboresce/pseuds/arboresce">arboresce</a></p><p>After Akuze, Shepard is forced to take a leave of absence on the Citadel. She's expecting a civilian life defined by mind-numbing days and nightmare-riddled nights. She's not expecting the neighbors.</p><p>Or, Five Types of Neighbors and How to Handle Them.</p><p>Words: 1353, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English</p><ul><li>Fandoms: <a full_path="true" class="tag" href="https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Mass%20Effect%20Trilogy/works">Mass Effect Trilogy</a>, <a full_path="true" class="tag" href="https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Mass%20Effect%20-%20All%20Media%20Types/works">Mass Effect - All Media Types</a></li><li>Rating: <a full_path="true" class="tag" href="https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Not%20Rated/works">Not Rated</a></li><li>Warnings: <a full_path="true" class="tag" href="https://archiveofourown.org/tags/No%20Archive%20Warnings%20Apply/works">No Archive Warnings Apply</a></li><li>Categories: <a full_path="true" class="tag" href="https://archiveofourown.org/tags/F*s*M/works">F/M</a>, <a full_path="true" class="tag" href="https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Multi/works">Multi</a></li><li>Characters: <a full_path="true" class="tag" href="https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Female%20Shepard%20(Mass%20Effect)/works">Female Shepard (Mass Effect)</a>, <a full_path="true" class="tag" href="https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Garrus%20Vakarian/works">Garrus Vakarian</a>, <a full_path="true" class="tag" href="https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Tali'Zorah%20nar%20Rayya/works">Tali'Zorah nar Rayya</a>, <a full_path="true" class="tag" href="https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Mordin%20Solus/works">Mordin Solus</a>, <a full_path="true" class="tag" href="https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Urdnot%20Wrex/works">Urdnot Wrex</a>, <a full_path="true" class="tag" href="https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Miranda%20Lawson/works">Miranda Lawson</a></li><li>Relationships: <a full_path="true" class="tag" href="https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Female%20Shepard*s*Garrus%20Vakarian/works">Female Shepard/Garrus Vakarian</a></li><li>Additional Tags: <a full_path="true" class="tag" href="https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Alternate%20Universe%20-%20Neighbors/works">Alternate Universe - Neighbors</a>, <a full_path="true" class="tag" href="https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Spacer%20(Mass%20Effect)/works">Spacer (Mass Effect)</a>, <a full_path="true" class="tag" href="https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Sole%20Survivor%20(Mass%20Effect)/works">Sole Survivor (Mass Effect)</a>, <a full_path="true" class="tag" href="https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Pre-Relationship/works">Pre-Relationship</a></li></ul>
  </body>
</html>

Should I re-open the ticket?

[ownedbycats]

Also, what can I do when FFF keeps reporting it can't find a page in the cache that I definitely loaded in the browser? I hope ffnet hasn't started using a cachebuster...

EDIT: Opening the page with inspector shows the code is 304, which indicates that it's cached—page source shows that login.php uses a cachebuster (likely in response to that near-security breach) but not seeing it anywhere else.

I've tried both Vivaldi and Waterfox caches. Weirdly, with Waterfox it instead says that it can't recognize the cache even though I put in the exact folder.

EDIT: I figured out the problem. The chapter I wanted was /s/xxxxxxxx/51/ but using update from the menu instead of URL looked for /s/xxxxxxxx/1/.

[JimmXinu]

Someone took me to task a few weeks ago for the lack of documentation about what the different update modes mean in FFF plugin.

I have written a document to try and explain the basics:

https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFare/wiki/UpdateModes

I'd appreciate it if people would review and comment on whether they think it is adequately clear and where it isn't.

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

I noticed that a text/html; charset=UTF-8 RSS feeds from AO3 have started dropping eml paths again. They worked before. Here's an example - no special characters.

Should I re-open the ticket?

Explain it to me like I never use RSS. What are you doing and why?

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Also, what can I do when FFF keeps reporting it can't find a page in the cache that I definitely loaded in the browser? I hope ffnet hasn't started using a cache-buster...

Make sure you have the right browser cache configured, force page reload, increase browser_cache_age_limit.

After that, I'd probably need to start putting some debug output back in and have you run it to send logs back.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Explain it to me like I never use RSS. What are you doing and why

I add the AO3 feeds for a few sections I like to my Mozilla Thunderbird's RSS reader to keep track of new stories. Thunderbird parses them as a text/html email, so I was able to drag & drop the ones I was interested in into the window. Now it just drops the .eml file.

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Make sure you have the right browser cache configured, force page reload, increase browser_cache_age_limit.

After that, I'd probably need to start putting some debug output back in and have you run it to send logs back.

I figured this one out. It was trying to fetch the wrong page (chapter 1 instead of 51).

[slantybard]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Have you tried FFF's "Keep 'Add New from URL(s)' dialog on top?" option?

That's all I can offer you from FFF as far as I know.

That worked thank-you very much. I'm sorry I never saw/realized that was a configuration option.