[GUI Plugin] FanFictionDownLoader

[Linwe]

Hello all! Hoping someone can help me with what is (I hope) a simple status tag addition. I currently have several OLD stories that have been discontinued but are too good to delete. I'd like to be able to label them with the status "Discontinued" in my status column, but the only available options are, of course, In-progress and Complete.

Is this possible and if so, how can it be done?

Much thanks!

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Linwe

Hello all! Hoping someone can help me with what is (I hope) a simple status tag addition. I currently have several OLD stories that have been discontinued but are too good to delete. I'd like to be able to label them with the status "Discontinued" in my status column, but the only available options are, of course, In-progress and Complete.

You don't need FFDL to do that. Just change the tag In-progress to Discontinued manually.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by firefoxxy

Thank you, Jimm! Works perfectly now.

I've got another question: When downloading a story from A3 sometimes the ship-tag "Harry Potter/Severus Snape" or even "Harry/Severus" is there, but not "Harry Potter" and "Severus Snape" as character-tags. I would like to have the ship as "Harry/Severus" (which works) plus the characters extracted as single tags ("Harry Potter", "Severus Snape") Is this possible?

I've got this in my ini-file:

[archiveofourown.org]
sort_ships:true
replace_metadata:
 category=>Harry Potter.*=>Harry Potter Works
 characters=>Harry=>Harry Potter
 characters=>Severus=>Severus Snape
 ships=>Harry Potter/Severus Snape=>Harry/Severus

What do I have to add here? Thanks again for any hints in advance.

Dump them all in tags and not worry about it so much? (As long as AO3 allows free form tags, you're never going to get perfectly normalized metadata.)

Set the values in your columns manually for new stories and then don't update those columns automatically?

It might be possible to do automatically, but it would require some experimentation with regular expressions. Here's one possibility:

[archiveofourown.org]
include_in_characters: characters, ships

replace_metadata:
 characters=>([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/(.+)=>\1\,\2\,\3,\4
 characters=>([^/]+)/([^/]+)/(.+)=>\1\,\2\,\3
 characters=>([^/]+)/(.+)=>\1\,\2
 ...

Dealing with more than 4-way ships is left as an exercise for the reader.

[shion002]

Hello! I was half-asleep when updating to the newest version so I didn't notice it wasn't compatible with my version of calibre (Mac OS X 10.6.8) and accidentily deleted the plug-in.

Does anyone know where I can get Version 2.0.5?

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by shion002

Hello! I was half-asleep when updating to the newest version so I didn't notice it wasn't compatible with my version of calibre (Mac OS X 10.6.8) and accidentily deleted the plug-in.

Does anyone know where I can get Version 2.0.5?

There weren't any changes to the OS requirements between FFDL 2.0.5 and the current version. FFDL 2.0.4 did allow older versions of calibre 1.X, but was changed in 2.0.5 because of issues with older calibre 1.X versions.

I'd suggest updating to the most recent calibre version.

[shion002]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

There weren't any changes to the OS requirements between FFDL 2.0.5 and the current version. FFDL 2.0.4 did allow older versions of calibre 1.X, but was changed in 2.0.5 because of issues with older calibre 1.X versions.

I'd suggest updating to the most recent calibre version.

I can't use the update function in calibre, because the newest version will not work on my OS. But following your advise (thank you very much), I checked if there was a "newer" version that still worked for my OS than what I had currently installed. And there was! (I'm feeling really, really stupid right now.)

For anyone else who might have the same problem:
calibre 1.48 is the last one that works for Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6 but you can still install the current plug-in version of fanfiction-downloader.

Again, thank you very much for your help.

[Tanjamuse]

I keep getting the following error:

calibre, version 2.4.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>UnicodeDecodeError</b>:'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xf8 in position 36: invalid start byte

calibre 2.4 isfrozen: True is64bit: False
Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 Windows ('32bit', 'WindowsPE')
32bit process running on 64bit windows
('Windows', '7', '6.1.7601')
Python 2.7.8
Windows: ('7', '6.1.7601', 'SP1', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Successfully initialized third party plugins: FanFictionDownLoader && EpubMerge && Count Pages && Generate Cover && Read MP3 AudioBook metadata && User Category && Find Duplicates && Reading List && Wiki Reader && Modify ePub
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre_plugins.fanfictiondownloader_plugin.dialo gs", line 610, in do_loop
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xf8 in position 36: invalid start byte

I already have the following in my personal.ini:

website_encodings: utf8, Windows-1252, iso8859-1

This is getting a bit annoying ... I download batch from the following link:

http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Harry%20Potter%20-%20J*d*%20K*d*%20Rowling/works?commit=Sort+and+Filter&page=21&utf8=%E2%9C%9 3&work_search[complete]=0&work_search[language_id]=1&work_search[other_tag_names]=&work_search[query]=&work_search[rating_ids][]=9&work_search[sort_column]=revised_at

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Tanjamuse

I keep getting the following error:

I don't see that error using the same story list URL and the default encoding list ("utf8","Windows-1252").

However, I have no way of knowing if the story list I get from that URL is the same as the one you get. It would help if you could isolate an individual story that exhibits the problem.

[Tanjamuse]

The weird thing is it doesn't happen everytime.

Just sometimes, and I have no idea why it's only that.

[Feynor]

Just a heads up. Ficwad changed their layout, and adapter is broken as a result.

Any story should trigger the failure to update.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Feynor

Just a heads up. Ficwad changed their layout, and adapter is broken as a result.

Any story should trigger the failure to update.

Thanks for the heads up. I should have time to look at it tomorrow.

[hleo12]

Archiveofourown is displaying a banner about some donations and that banner is currently being downloaded as the synopsis/summary of every fic...

[JimmXinu]

Attached is a test version that I think addresses the problems with both ficwad and AO3.

Please let me know both if you have problems or if it works correctly for you.

UPDATE: changes in released version.

[Tanjamuse]

It seems to have done the trick for AO3 ... Thanks a bunch

[Firedancer885]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Attached is a test version that I think addresses the problems with both ficwad and AO3.

Please let me know both if you have problems or if it works correctly for you.

It looks like it solved the AO3 banner problem.