[GUI Plugin] FanFictionDownLoader

[cryzed]

There's a reason LiveJournal isn't supported.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by mcb123

I was hoping Jim would be so kind as to add livejournal.com (LJ) to the supported sites.
...

This has been requested before. Enough times that there's a documented answer. It also offers some other solution ideas.

However, if somebody else wants to try, I will accept code contributions as long as they reasonably conform to the existing program structure.

[cryzed]

@mcb123 Can you provide me with links to a set of structurally diverse fanfiction stories found on the LiveJournal site? I might try taking a look at it, but no promises at all for now.

EDIT: Nevermind, it's practically impossible to do it well without some kind of trained neural network to parse out specific metadata out of seemingly random markup...

[PandathePanda]

Found that trying to get a story of Fictionmania.tv the plugin says no valid Story Url.

IE https://fictionmania.tv/stories/read...86316538966426 FFDL says it's not an story url, yet the site is under supported sites

[BetterRed]

Jim are you running a book on when this thread will reach a million views?

[Zauberlehrling!]

Hi JimmXinu,

I just tried it again. Yes, it comes up only when I start Calibre from the Terminal and the message comes up immediately when Calibre starts in the background. So it's like you say. Okay, if that doesn't effects me, I just continue to ignore it.

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

What are you doing when you get this message? What effect does it have?

It appears to be an error during image processing. FFDL does try to convert images to jpeg and resize them during epub download. You might try adding this to your personal.ini to disable FFDL image processing:

[epub]
no_image_processing: true

This:

FFDL:DEBUG:calibre_plugins.fanfictiondownloader_plugin.ffdl_plugin(159):Plugin FanFictionDownLoader macmenuhack file_path:/home/bepo/.config/calibre/plugins/fanfictiondownloader_macmenuhack.txt

...should only output when calibre first starts. It tells Mac users where they can put a file to activate a special workaround for a specific Mac issue. It's a normal message and doesn't effect anything. Furthermore, it should have appeared well before any possible image processing error from FFDL.

[cryzed]

@PandathePanda try the attached version. The problem was the https protocol prefix, I wrote the adapter originally to only handle the http protocol prefix.

@Zauberlehrling! as long as you don't notice any actual problems there's nothing to fix, right? It's just a warning from what I can tell, not an actual error or problem.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Jim are you running a book on when this thread will reach a million views?

No, but it's certainly an idea.

[mcb123]

Hi,

While the instructions in the default.ini are fairly straightforward, (ie remove the hashtag and put #collect_series: true into the personal.ini overrides) it's not working. The series won't:
1) go into the standard calibre column
2) consecutively number starting from the previous book in the series

I have tried:

1) override as above
2) putting the same line of code into the default section of personal.ini
3) looking for a solution in the standard columns tab

thanks

[mcb123]

Hi,

I want to apply one of two tags to a book based on the Status variable. Namely, if a work is Status: Complete I want to tag it "FF COM" and if In-Progress or undeclared, "FF IP" I do not want to use extratags for this because 1 of my custom columns is already dependent on the extratags variable.

Help is appreciated.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by mcb123

While the instructions in the default.ini are fairly straightforward, (ie remove the hashtag and put #collect_series: true into the personal.ini overrides) it's not working. The series won't:
1) go into the standard calibre column
2) consecutively number starting from the previous book in the series

I have tried:

1) override as above
2) putting the same line of code into the default section of personal.ini
3) looking for a solution in the standard columns tab

There are only a very few sites where series can be collected but by default isn't. For most sites, series is collected and set. 'collect_series: true' is unlikely to be needed.

There are also sites (the sites using the Base eFiction code) that collect series and set it, but do *not* collect the series number.

Without knowing what sites, I cannot help you any further.

With pretty much any question or problem, you should include story url(s) that exhibit the problem for you.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by mcb123

I want to apply one of two tags to a book based on the Status variable. Namely, if a work is Status: Complete I want to tag it "FF COM" and if In-Progress or undeclared, "FF IP" I do not want to use extratags for this because 1 of my custom columns is already dependent on the extratags variable.

[defaults]
# or whatever specific site you want to apply it do.
add_to_replace_metadata:
 status=>Completed=>FF COM
 status=>In-Progress=>FF IP

[JimmXinu]

Test version without personal.ini warning about bulk_load param in devianthearts.com section.

Also includes cryzed's change for https with fictionmania.tv.

[mcb123]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

There are only a very few sites where series can be collected but by default isn't. For most sites, series is collected and set. 'collect_series: true' is unlikely to be needed.

Without knowing what sites, I cannot help you any further.

With pretty much any question or problem, you should include story url(s) that exhibit the problem for you.

Even though I've had the Default settings in the Standard Columns tab to collect series for years now, both with and without the New Only check box, it has never successfully imported. I mainly use ff.net & AO3. For example:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10816160/1/Amuse-Yourself

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by mcb123

Even though I've had the Default settings in the Standard Columns tab to collect series for years now, both with and without the New Only check box, it has never successfully imported. I mainly use ff.net & AO3. For example:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10816160/1/Amuse-Yourself

ff.net doesn't have 'series' metadata, so it's never going to work there.

In this context, 'series' means a group of stories, not the TV series they may be based on. For ffnet and AO3, that would be Category.

This is an example of an AO3 story that is part of a series, that series being 'Avalanche'.