[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[JimmXinu]

New New Test Version Posted

2021-06-27
- Record error message for new downloads too since Failed Chapters are now a thing.
- adapter_wwwnovelallcom - Updates for site changes. 'translator' no longer available?
- New Site: worldofx.de (German language X-files eFiction)

[ackomb]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Multi-reply

In the meantime, in FFF config under Basic tab, you can choose to have FFF mark books with failed chapters.

EDIT:

When creating a new book, the error message field is not populated on chapter error because FFF doesn't have the calibre book id yet in that part of the code. I might be able to fix that, but I might not want to.

When updating existing books, I do see the error field being populated with the message about missing chapters (when correctly configured).

There's also the 'mark' option mentioned.

Plus (assuming you didn't unclick 'Show this warning again') there's a popup to warn you that some stories had failed chapters on both new and update by URLs and emails.

I always Mark succes, Failed and Chapter error, for various reasons.
And I had noticed that sometime the error column was populated and sometimes it wasn't just didn't see why it was irregular, now I know it has to do with it being new or updated.

Since I follow authors and not only stories, when I use e-mail update it means it's a mix of both new and updated stories.

As for the popup. Yes that's how I know, but at first I assumed it always showed that error in the error column. Now I know it doesn't, still it would be nice if it would populate the error column. Because weather the story is new or updated, it doesn't change the fact the story contains failed chapter .

For now I'll just have to check the log file in more detail to determine if it is a new or updated story.

EDIT:
While I was watching football while typing my reply Jimm has already updated. So ... yeah

[HowWouldIKnow]

Archiveofourown

Can I remove from "freeformtags" the tags which are already in the genre part?
I thought I could do it with exclude_metadata, but no idea how.


Is there an way to "reduce" or collect some tags together? AO3 has quite a lot of similar tags and that makes it hard to search.
And if I use replace on every tag I will die of old age before I am done.

[JimmXinu]

This is a re-occurring topic. Search the thread for "ao3 tags".

The short answer is that there's really no winning with AO3's tag structure as long as they allow authors to enter anything they like. They even have a special team of "tag wranglers" (with documentation) to link authors' random tags to 'canonical' meanings.

And before you ask, no, there's currently no good way for FFF to use those canonical tags. Looking up all the tags on a story isn't feasible when so many have dozens or even hundreds of tags. Not until they start having a mode or page where you can see the 'canonical' tags for a story instead of/in addition to the author's tags anyway.

I will help you with specific replace_metadata issues; but as general problem, I consider it unsolvable in practical terms.

[ownedbycats]

A bit of a rant about AO3's tag wrangling here:

Spoiler:

So in the Half-Life fandom specifically, a good chunk of the fics are actually for various YouTube series based on the game. I'm not interested in reading those fics, so I was glad when AO3 made it a separate fandom... except that it just linked back to Half-Life.

So while it displays differently, it's not actually filterable. Wtf is the point of making it separate then?

[HowWouldIKnow]

hmm yeah already thought that will be a problem.
Thanks anyway!

[lia_]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Multi-reply

Basically this. FFF now runs single-threaded for each site to avoid multiple simultaneous downloads on the same site.

You(lia_) haven't mentioned which site you're slamming, but if it hasn't changed lately, you may be able to use a pre-v4 FFF: https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFare/releases

I'm currently working on HarryPotterFanFiction.net before it goes down on the 30th. I've tried using v3.28 and 3.29 but I end up getting errors for all of the stories. I've also tried v4.0 and 4.1 and 4.2 and they're a bit faster for me than 4.3 but regularly cause my calibre to freeze. Right now I'm just cycling through different releases to try and figure out what's most efficient.

[John Maverick]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

New New Test Version Posted
- adapter_wwwnovelallcom - Updates for site changes. 'translator' no longer available?

Tested the first and final test version released today. Both worked perfectly updating and getting new novels from www.novelall.com

Thanks a lot!!!

[riothamus]

Originally Posted by lia_

I'm currently working on HarryPotterFanFiction.net before it goes down on the 30th. I've tried using v3.28 and 3.29 but I end up getting errors for all of the stories. I've also tried v4.0 and 4.1 and 4.2 and they're a bit faster for me than 4.3 but regularly cause my calibre to freeze. Right now I'm just cycling through different releases to try and figure out what's most efficient.

I downloaded from about five authors I'd had bookmarked for future reading and had no problems last week (Friday I think). I'm using the latest Calibre and the latest official FFF plugin. I don't recall them taking very long to download. I will say that randomly, one of the links seemed to turn into an ff.net link so maybe double check that?

Riothamus

[leckadams]

I have really been working hard on my own going through each comment and re-reading the directions etc on how to do this work around. I thought I finally got it, but then I got this error


Directory does not contain a known browser cache type: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Calibre2'


if someone could just point me in the direction of the post where i can find the best answer i will figure it out. I know this has been a pain for everyone and I don't want to be a pest.

TIA

[ILB]

https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFa...erCacheFeature
There are a few examples how your browser_cache_path should look. Depending on the browser in which you are opening the fanfic-links.

But I´m quite sure that "calibre" will not be included in it.

[steltek]

@JimmXinu, I loaded the most recent test version and the FFF button disappeared from Calibre. I had to load the most recent official release to get it back. Any idea as to why this happened?

[steltek]

Originally Posted by leckadams

I have really been working hard on my own going through each comment and re-reading the directions etc on how to do this work around. I thought I finally got it, but then I got this error


Directory does not contain a known browser cache type: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Calibre2'


if someone could just point me in the direction of the post where i can find the best answer i will figure it out. I know this has been a pain for everyone and I don't want to be a pest.

TIA

What browser and OS are you trying to get it working with?

The easiest browser to get it working on is Firefox or one of its variants (like Waterfox). Go to about:cache in the browser URL bar and it will give you a page that contains the exact path to the browser cache that you can copy/paste into personal.ini directly after browser_cache_path: with no spaces in between.

The line you want to copy is the entire path shown under the storage disk location in the disk section.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by steltek

@JimmXinu, I loaded the most recent test version and the FFF button disappeared from Calibre. I had to load the most recent official release to get it back. Any idea as to why this happened?

Corrupted zip file download perhaps?

If you restart Calibre in debug mode and post the log, it may tell us something.

[Courge]

Hello,

I gather the "category" metadata in a custom column and I would like to simplify the metadata while avoiding multiple identical values.

For example, some fanfics are tagged as:

• The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
• The Hobbit - All Media Types
• TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms

I set the personal.ini file to:

add_to_replace_metadata:
 category=>The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien=>Tolkien
 category=>The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types=>Tolkien
 category=>The Hobbit - All Media Types=>Tolkien
 category=>TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works \& Related Fandoms=>Tolkien

Which gives me in the "Category" custom column: "Tolkien, Tolkien, Tolkien, Tolkien".

Is it possible to either pick up (and replace) only the first tag in "category" or remove identical replacements?

Thank you!