[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[chicleeblair]

I got it working. I think the difference was using ships_CHARS? But I was already kind of thrown this morning because only a percent of what I set to update last night did, because I accidentally told it not to update if no new chapters.

For ten year old pics

It was 2:30am, what can I say?

[AuroraSulphur]

Originally Posted by poodz

Ah, I see - gotcha. I was trying to pull from an entire page of bookmarks, where the bookmarked date is visible. I believe when the work is deleted on ao3, your tags, notes, and bookmark date still remain (ref: https://imgur.com/a/FhBGtwd). If that's the case, I'll probably just go thru and manually add dates, thank you!

Hello! I've only recently started using Calibre and FanFicFare and I am blown away by how amazing it is! Like the person above, I've been pulling in works from my AO3 account, but I've been doing it from My History instead of My Bookmarks. On the My History view, it displays the date I last visited the story, whether it's been updated since then, and how many times I've visited it. As far as I know, this information only appears in this view.

I was wondering if there is a way to get FFF to pull that information in when I download the work to Calibre? I'm assuming based on your response to the person above that there is not this capability natively. However, I was wondering if there is a way to specifically add in a way to pull this information in my personal.ini?

I ask because I currently use a javascript bookmarklet by Flamebyrd to periodically download my history, and that one is able to find/call/pull (idk the terminology) these three data points. So I was kind of hoping there was a method I could use to tell FFF to look for/pull in that information, using the javascript code somehow in my personal.ini.

I took two semesters of coding in undergrad, and I basically only know enough to get myself in trouble. I understand this might be too hellishly complex to even attempt, but given this appears to be an incredibly niche desire on my part, I figured it was worth a shot to ask. Again, thanks so much for all of your work on this, and to the community in this thread!! I've learned so much already.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by AuroraSulphur

On the My History view, it displays the date I last visited the story, whether it's been updated since then, and how many times I've visited it. As far as I know, this information only appears in this view.

I would point out that info is only really useful if you are doing all your reading on the site.

Since FFF is specifically a tool to take your reading off line, that info will not be interesting or useful to anyone who's been using FFF for a while, doing their reading from downloaded ebooks.

[klcivinski]

I have recently been given a Mac, never used a Mac before, and I am setting up FanFicFar in Calibre for FFnet. I have set up all the cache files, but I am having an issue with the browser cache age limit. I have it set to -1 as I did on my PC. I have tried different times as well but I still get the error. I have tried the same story on my PC and it works fine, but I cannot get the Mac to work. I have done restarts, cleared out the cache, and still does not work. Any Mac users that can help me figure out if I have something in the background blocking would be appreciated. Like I said I have never used a Mac before so I greatly appreciate any help.

[ownedbycats]

https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFa...g-errors--help

Browser caches can sometimes become (mildly) corrupted and/or FFF's cache reading code is less than perfect. I suspect the answer is probably both.

Your best bet in such a case is to clear your browser cache before trying again with all steps, including visiting the pages in browser.

If that doesn't help, some users have reported success manually deleting the contents of their browser cache directory; then the browser should recreate it entirely. I'd quit the browser and back up first before trying again.

[culytera]

Is it possible to also pass the date chapter metadata onto an EPUB's TOC metadata? I know you can do that for the TOC page and the chapter HTML.

I have this for the chapter HTML. So for the embedded TOC I'd like to do something like: ${number}. ${title} [${date}]

Edit: lol nevermind, didn't realize I hadn't set chapter_title_add_pattern, although I'd like to not have it affect the chapter HTML for a different layout.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by culytera

Edit: lol nevermind, didn't realize I hadn't set chapter_title_add_pattern, although I'd like to not have it affect the chapter HTML for a different layout.

"different layout" meaning? You can set it per site or even per story in personal.ini.

[culytera]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

"different layout" meaning? You can set it per site or even per story in personal.ini.

I mean I wanted to set a chapter title pattern for the embedded TOC and a different one for the chapter HTML. I've tried ${origchapter}/${tocchapter}/${title} in chapter_start and the output was the same as ${chapter} since the pattern was being overwritten by chapter_title_x_pattern.

[archiveofourown.org]

## The basic pattern used when not using add_chapter_numbers or
## mark_new_chapters
chapter_title_def_pattern:${title} [${date}]

## Pattern used with add_chapter_numbers, but not mark_new_chapters
chapter_title_add_pattern:${number}. ${title} [${date}]

## Pattern used with mark_new_chapters, but not add_chapter_numbers
## (new) is just text and can be changed.
chapter_title_new_pattern:${title} [${date}] | (NEW)

## Pattern used with add_chapter_numbers and mark_new_chapters
## (new) is just text and can be changed.
chapter_title_addnew_pattern:${number}. ${title} [${date}] | (NEW)

chapter_start:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 <head>
 <title>${chapter}</title>
 <link href="stylesheet.css" type="text/css" charset="UTF-8" rel="stylesheet"/>
 <meta name="chapterurl" content="${url}"></meta>
 <meta name="chapterorigtitle" content="${origchapter}"></meta>
 <meta name="chaptertoctitle" content="${tocchapter}"></meta>
 <meta name="chaptertitle" content="${chapter}"></meta>
 </head>
 <body class="fff_chapter">
 <h3 class="fff_chapter_title">${chapter}</h3>
 <div class="fff_chapter_title small hr-sect">${date}</div>

[overrides]

strip_chapter_numbers:true
add_chapter_numbers:true
mark_new_chapters:latestonly

(Attached is result)

But what I want is ${number}. ${title} [${date}] on embedded TOC, but only ${number}. ${title} on the EPUB output.

[chicleeblair]

I've generated covers for most fics; just placeholders mostly, but I didn't want to lose those on stuff I haven't set a specific cover for. I mostly use Archive, so setting use_old_overs:true was set and I went on my merry way But some ff.net stories have specific covers. Would something like

use_old_cover:true&&{cover_image}!=(specific)

work?

I can just make it ff.net specific like I've had to do everything else (aggggggH0 but rn all my generate cover stuff is in one place and. I like that

Also, on the subject, how does it prioritize things? If I have a default cover for a category, but add one for a ship or character in that category, is that going to contradict itself?

A

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by culytera

I mean I wanted to set a chapter title pattern for the embedded TOC and a different one for the chapter HTML.

Yeah, can't do that right now.

I might be able to leverage something in, but there's already several different chapter title patterns running around. May look at it next week if I remember.

Originally Posted by chicleeblair

I've generated covers for most fics; just placeholders mostly, but I didn't want to lose those on stuff I haven't set a specific cover for. I mostly use Archive, so setting use_old_overs:true was set and I went on my merry way But some ff.net stories have specific covers.
...

No, you cannot put anything more complex than true/false in use_old_cover.

I don't have the brain power to even understand the question at the moment. I didn't remember use_old_cover was an existing setting before looking it up.

Have you read the wiki page on covers?

[MCBastos]

Is there any currently known problem with tgstorytime.com support? I used to be able to get stories from there with FFF, but today I only got error messages with the comment (in the log) that "'NoneType' object has no attribute 'strip'".

[JimmXinu]

Already reported and fixed in test version. Unless the site has changed again.

[chicleeblair]

My reorganization odyssey’s almost done! I’m sure there are going to be some things that are still pretty messy, but overall I think I’ve gotten a lot straightened out and I’ve learned a lot. I wanna put in my vote for being able to update only one or two columns at a time. I’m going to have to re-run the metadata on all of my six over the next few days because of figuring things out over the course of what was supposed to be simply going through my tags.

I have one question and a suggestion:

I’ve read through most of the wiki, but I may just not be quite putting the logic together correctly. Since archive doesn’t really use its genre category I was Thinking I’d include freeform tags in genre, and then only the ones I’ve parred down to match ffnet’s genres (plus smut.) But then if I wanted to take them out of the tags, would it cancel out? I know it’s like the rainbow dash example I’m just failing at abstracting. The issue would be any extra entry would either pull from freeformtags or not have “Omg so fluffy!” changed to “fluff.”

otherwise I’d keep them in freeformtags and create an entry that has them removed and to be used anywhere I don’t want duplicates. A genre column would take a little bit more out of my tags column so that I could keep more of the unique tags, you know?

My idea came from setting up a log page. I’m really behind in reading fanfiction, and not just because I’ve been organizing it ha ha. And there are several things that have added chapters multiple times since I caught up. I used the AO3 chapter index to figure out how many chapters I had missed, and it shows when each chapter was uploaded so I could update my progress column and know what I’d missed. Now I’ll have the log, but is there anyway to use the chapter index information to populate a page with the full history? Even if it was in place of the plug-in log page, it would be helpful. I know it’s only one side so that might be too much work for it, but the thought of having that in the file made me really excited, and I wish I had known about the feature ages ago

[ownedbycats]

@chicleeblair Do you read on a Kobo? If so, there's a way to keep track.

Set up Kobo Utilities to store reading position to a column and then use this template in a composite column.

[Mieeka]

Hi Jimm,

Can I make a functionality suggestion.

When using "get stories from URL" on my Ao3 bookmark page, and i have a story bookmarked, which is in a anthology it pins the anthology for update. However, if I have a series bookmark - It ignores it completely.

My suggestion is - for series in the library - Pin those, just like it does stories. For series which *arent* in the library - show an error message on the results page so i know i need to manually add those.

Thanks!