[GUI Plugin] FanFictionDownLoader

[Jade Aislin]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

[default]
replace_metadata:
 ... tons of code to tweak metadata to your exacting standards
 ... and normalize all the character names juuuust right

## Now make sure that only characters that start with your corrected
## formatting are included.
include_metadata_post:
 characters=~^(Books|Anime|Movies)\.

I had to laugh at the info in the replace_metadata. That is exactly what I do. . tons of code tweak. . . though I am trying to cut back.

I tried the include_metadata_post with characters, ships, and genre. I used this code:

include_metadata_post:
 characters=~^(Anime/Manga|Book|TV|Movie|Game|Cartoon|Comics)\.
 ships=~^(Anime/Manga|Book|TV|Movie|Game|Cartoon|Comics)\.
 genre=~^(Soulmate|Story Abandoned/Hiatus)

It worked great for characters and genre, excluding the one piece of metadata I did not want in each set.

However, when I tried to use it for the ships, it excluded everything.

Now, I've had problems before with ships when I tried attaching the categories I wanted at the beginning and found a way around that by using the ships_LIST.

##Starting with 'Duo M/Heero Yuy, and this code in replace_metadata. . .
 characters,ships=>Duo M=>Duo Maxwell&&category=>Gundam Wing
  
 characters,ships_LIST=>(^|, )(Heero Yuy|Duo Maxwell)=>\1Anime/Manga.Gundam Wing.\2&&category=>Gundam Wing
##results in this: Anime/Manga.Gundam Wing.Duo Maxwell/Heero Yuy.

When I tried to use the ships_LIST in the include_metadata_post:
First Attempt

 ships_LIST=~(^|, )(Anime/Manga|Book|TV|Movie|Game|Cartoon|Comics)\.

Second Attempt

 ships_LIST=~^(Anime/Manga|Book|TV|Movie|Game|Cartoon|Comics)\.

It let all the ships through.

I'm not sure what code I should use to make only the metadata starting with what I want be accepted. For everything but the ships, it seems to work great.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Jade Aislin

I had to laugh at the info in the replace_metadata. That is exactly what I do. . tons of code tweak. . . though I am trying to cut back.

The first step is admitting you have a problem...

Originally Posted by Jade Aislin

...
However, when I tried to use it for the ships, it excluded everything.
...
Now, I've had problems before with ships when I tried attaching the categories I wanted at the beginning and found a way around that by using the ships_LIST.
...

In the case of ships, you're not adding the 'Anime/Manga.Gundam Wing.' until after the list is joined into one string(ships_LIST). You can't use in/exclude on 'Anime/Manga.Gundam Wing.' when processing the ships values because it isn't there yet.

Using in/exclude on ships_LIST isn't very meaningful--the list is already made, the most you can do it either pass or omit the entire list string.

And then there's sort_ships which takes place after in/exclude_metadata_post but before replace_metadata on ships_LIST.

So, you're still on your own for that one. I don't remember (if I ever knew) why you're doing that on ships_LIST. I'd expect something like this to work:

replace_metadata:
 ships=>^(Heero Yuy|Duo Maxwell)=>Anime/Manga.Gundam Wing.\1&&category=>Gundam Wing

[Jade Aislin]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

And then there's sort_ships which takes place after in/exclude_metadata_post but before replace_metadata on ships_LIST.

So, you're still on your own for that one. I don't remember (if I ever knew) why you're doing that on ships_LIST. I'd expect something like this to work:

replace_metadata:
 ships=>^(Heero Yuy|Duo Maxwell)=>Anime/Manga.Gundam Wing.\1&&category=>Gundam Wing

I think I used ships_LIST because I was having a problem with the 'Anime/Manga.' getting added before the ship was sorted and it getting mixed into the pairing.

I found the original post I had about that issue here. ships_LIST allowed me to sort the pairing before adding the 'Anime/Manga.'.

I think I found a solution. Instead of looking for the heirachical tags (Anime/Manga, etc) I set the code to keep anything that has '/':

 ships=~/

which at that point, all my ships should have. I may still get some pairings I did not mean to keep, but hopefully that will keep most of the junk metatags out.

[Tanjamuse]

Hi Jimmy.

I tried using the "count words/pages" plugin, but the word count is to high.

Have I done something wrong in the settings?

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Tanjamuse

I tried using the "count words/pages" plugin, but the word count is to high.

The "Count Pages" plugin also counts the words on the title page and log page (if you use it). So naturally it will be a bit higher than a count of just the words of the story itself.

Unless it's ludicrously high, I wouldn't worry about it. Plus some sites don't have very accurate word counts to start with.

[Firedancer885]

Jimm,

FFDL doesn't recognize WWOMB (squidge/~peja) urls.

[Firedancer885]

Even after I put back the latest official plugin and restarted Calibre. Did the url change?

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Firedancer885

Jimm,

FFDL doesn't recognize WWOMB (squidge/~peja) urls.

Another site silently switching to https.

https://www.squidge.org/~peja/cgi-bi....php?sid=36323

Try this version.

UPDATE May 5, 2014 - Remove obsolete beta versions

[Firedancer885]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Another site silently switching to https.

https://www.squidge.org/~peja/cgi-bi....php?sid=36323

Try this version.

Thank you, it works

[Tanjamuse]

Where do I input username and password for dark-solace.org?

Also, a question for the group: What do you have in your Custom Columns?

I've had to redo my enormous fanfiction library and is looking for new things to sort by and so on ... I already have word count, what else do you suggest?

Thanks

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Tanjamuse

Where do I input username and password for dark-solace.org?

In the personal.ini tab of FFDL's config:

[dark-solace.org]
username:YourName
password:yourpassword

Originally Posted by Tanjamuse

Also, a question for the group: What do you have in your Custom Columns?

I've had to redo my enormous fanfiction library and is looking for new things to sort by and so on ... I already have word count, what else do you suggest?

I have Words, Chapter count, & Updated Date for FFDL metadata. I keep some additional columns for Read/Unread, Not On Devices, ExtraNotes and one that merges read/unread, series name and title.

You might look at this page about using FFDL and Reading List plugins to manage your read/unread and updating devices.

[Tanjamuse]

Do I just copy that? and where to put it in?

Edit: Never mind I figured it out.

How do you generate a cover from tag instead of site, since I use Fanfiction.net to download from more than one fandom?

Thanks

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Tanjamuse

How do you generate a cover from tag instead of site, since I use Fanfiction.net to download from more than one fandom?

The forum doesn't send notices about updated posts, only new ones. So it's only chance that I came back and saw your update. I usually only check the forum when I get notification of a new post.

At the bottom of the Generate Cover tab, one of the options is to allow generate_cover_settings in personal.ini.

From defaults.ini:

## If you have the Generate Cover plugin installed, you can use the
## generate_cover_settings parameter to intelligently decide which GC
## setting to run.  There are three parts 1) a template of which
## metadata part(s) to look at, 2) a regular expression to match the
## template, and 3) the name of the GC setting to use, which must
## match exactly.  Use this parameter in [defaults], or by site eg,
## [ficwad.com]
## Make sure to keep at least one space at the start of each line and
## to escape % to %%, if used.
## template => regexp to match => GC Setting to use.
#generate_cover_settings:
 ${category} => Buffy:? [tT]he Vampire Slayer => BuffyCover
 ${category} => Star Trek => StarTrekCover

[Tanjamuse]

Where in the Personal.ini file do I input the code, because all the sudden I got the following in the tag column:

Bones, Drama, ${category} => Buffy:? [tT]he Vampire Slayer => BuffyCover ${category} => Bones => BonesCover ${category} => How I Met Your Mother => HIMYMCover ${category} => Pirates of the Caribbean => PiratesCover

[JimmXinu]

Oops. Also need to remove the '#' comment character in front of generate_cover_settings.

If you want it to effect all sites, put it in the [defaults] section. Otherwise, put it in the section for the site you want to effect:

[www.fanfiction.net]
generate_cover_settings:
 ${category} => Buffy:? [tT]he Vampire Slayer => BuffyCover
 ${category} => Star Trek => StarTrekCover