[FanFicFare] Metadata Management for Fanfiction

[storybrookebooks]

I've been following the instructions from this website to set up my FFF.

https://maelstrom.quest/2026/02/24/calibre-fff-guide/

[culytera]

Originally Posted by storybrookebooks

Is there anyway for me to look into why it's not downloading for me? I'm not using any VPN.

If it makes a difference, every time it shows it's downloading, my mouse turns into the spinner and the application is marked as not responding.

EDIT: got the third error again

AO3 still has issues, you'll just have to wait. You can monitor its status here.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by storybrookebooks

I've been following the instructions from this website to set up my FFF.

https://maelstrom.quest/2026/02/24/calibre-fff-guide/

Came from Reddit's AO3 subreddit, I presume?

Sadly AO3's still having issues so it'll be weird until ts resolved.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by storybrookebooks

Hello, this is my first time using FFF and I've been running into a bunch of errors.

I checked the ao3 status page and it says the outage is resolved now so I believe the issues I'm running into is unrelated to it.

Every time I try to download by URL (with only one URL) I'm given one of these 3 errors:

HTTP Error in FFF '525 Server Error: <none> for url: https://archiveofourown.org/works/44...igate'(525)

HTTP Error in FFF '403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://archiveofourown.org/users/login'(403)

HTTP Error in FFF '403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://archiveofourown.gay/users/login'(403)

This is best posted in the FFF plugin thread and not here.

[ownedbycats]

If you use Generate Covers, this will adjust your cover profile based on the length of a title - no need to regenerate when the text runs off the image

[archiveofourown.org]
generate_cover_settings:
 ${title} => .{1,18} => AO3-ShortTitle
 ${title} => .{60,} => AO3-SmallText
 ${title} => .{30,} => AO3-MediumText