[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[Firedancer885]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

The latest posted test version already fixes that problem.

Thanks

[Elaine T]

And this morning it worked fine, while it (and others) didn't for the last few weeks.

Thanks anyway.

And yeah, I figured out the run in debug mode after posting - been looking in the plug in menu, not the main one.

[firefoxxy]

Hello Jimm,

It's me again with a short question. I have this story here
http://archiveofourown.org/works/4063606
and my personal.ini says

sort_ships:true
replace_metadata:
 ships=>^Loki.*/Steve.*$=>Loki/Steve

But it doesn't work. I altered it to
ships=>Loki.*/Steve.*=>Loki/Steve
ships=>^Steve.*/Loki.*$=>Loki/Steve
ships=>Loki.*/Steve( Rogers)?=>Loki/Steve
and anything inbetween I could think of. But it still does not work...

Could you please help me - what am I doing wrong?

[chrnno]

Originally Posted by firefoxxy

Hello Jimm,

It's me again with a short question. I have this story here
http://archiveofourown.org/works/4063606
and my personal.ini says

sort_ships:true
replace_metadata:
 ships=>^Loki.*/Steve.*$=>Loki/Steve

But it doesn't work. I altered it to
ships=>Loki.*/Steve.*=>Loki/Steve
ships=>^Steve.*/Loki.*$=>Loki/Steve
ships=>Loki.*/Steve( Rogers)?=>Loki/Steve
and anything inbetween I could think of. But it still does not work...

Could you please help me - what am I doing wrong?

The order is 'Steve' then 'Loki' and only one of those is correct in that sense so that is the reason for the rest not working. For the one that is correct* I did a few tests and it indeed converts the ship to Loki/Steve so I presume you tested it wrong or have something else messing with it. From a quick test to confirm turning "sort_ship" is applied after replace metadata so that is not it.

*This I mean

 ships=>^Steve.*/Loki.*$=>Loki/Steve

[tamiby]

Hi Jimm!

I've been using version 2.2.6 with no problems so far, but I have stumbled on a story that throws this error:

'NoneType' object has no attribute 'next_element'

The story is this one:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1180369/1/Choices

I haven't encountered this one before, I hope you can help me

Thanks for all your good work!

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by tamiby

'NoneType' object has no attribute 'next_element'

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1180369/1/Choices

That particular story has many HTML errors in the first chapter. So many that even the new, more forgiving HTML parser can't handle it.

You can download the rest of it using https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1180369/1/Choices[2-]. then, if you have a little bit of editing skill, you could use your brower's view source and Calibre's book edit feature to add the first chapter manually. It could also help you fix the HTML so it doesn't fail in your reader.

[firefoxxy]

Hello Jimm

Thank you for the help! I fear that I did not express well what I was doing. I did not write all those tags beneath each other, but replaced the original expression with one after the other, each only one line at a time.

And I always thought that because of the "sort ships" being on the top, it would first sort them alphabetically, and then below search for the line with Loki/Steve being corrected.

So, should I always have two lines for each ship? Like this:

replace_metadata:
 ships=>^Steve.*/Loki.*$=>Loki/Steve
 ships=>^Loki.*/Steve.*$=>Loki/Steve
 ships=>^Severus.*/Lily.*$=>Lily/Severus
 ships=>^Lily.*/Severus.*$=>Lily/Severus

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by firefoxxy

And I always thought that because of the "sort ships" being on the top, it would first sort them alphabetically, and then below search for the line with Loki/Steve being corrected.

So, should I always have two lines for each ship?

sort_ships is applied after replace_metadata, regardless of order in personal.ini. That's deliberate in case you need to change the site's ship divider to '/' from something else using replace_metadata.

Rather than lines for each ship (which will only break down when you inevitably start hitting trios/quads/orgies/harems), you could have one line for each name:

replace_metadata:
 ships=>(^|/)(Steve)[^/]*(/|$)=>\1\2\3
 ships=>(^|/)(Loki)[^/]*(/|$)=>\1\2\3
 ships=>(^|/)(Lily)[^/]*(/|$)=>\1\2\3
 ships=>(^|/)(Severus)[^/]*(/|$)=>\1\2\3
## (^|/) beginning of line or a '/'
## (name) to have a \2 to save typing
## [^/]* anything except another /
## (/|$) '/' or end of line

My testing shows these work with any number of '/'s in the ship, but obviously only for the names you've added.

But it looks like what you really want is to only keep the first name of whomever. That can be done, too, but dealing with all three cases (start of line, middle and end of line) in one expression is... complex. (It has to do with overlapping matches.)

replace_metadata:
 ships=>(?:^|(?<=/))([^ ,:]+)[^/]*(?=/|$)=>\1
## (?:^|(?<=/)) non-capturing grouping of start-of-line or lookbehind matching /
## ([^ ,:]+) one or more chars until the first space, comma or colon
## [^/]* zero or more chars until /
## (?=/|$) lookahead matching / or end-of-line

This also handles cases with : or , after the first name, like Thor: thundergod/Darcy, snarky intern. But it won't work well if you get Doctor Quinn/Doctor McCoy--that will end up as Doctor/Doctor.

[MerlinMama]

I'm sure I'm just missing something simple, but I can't see it right now.

When I add from fanfiction.net, I now get a cover image in the files that I don't want. I've changed all cover options (although I'm probably missing the one that will work) and it still shows up. I know that ffnet changed something recently, and you also made generating covers on by default, but I find this extremely annoying.

I also saw once you recommended someone try adding code <skip_author_cover:false> so I tried that with the value true and still no help (I did use the entire code you provided, just didn't reproduce it here).

Any help? What am I missing?

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by MerlinMama

When I add from fanfiction.net, I now get a cover image in the files that I don't want. I've changed all cover options (although I'm probably missing the one that will work) and it still shows up. I know that ffnet changed something recently, and you also made generating covers on by default, but I find this extremely annoying.

[www.fanfiction.net]
## If set, the epub will never have a cover, even include_images is on
## and the site has specific cover images.
never_make_cover: true

[MerlinMama]

Thank you! I've created my own covers and prefer using those. Set in my ways for some things...

[firefoxxy]

Thank you very much Jimm!!
I simply copied your second solution which is exactly what I want (this is much too complex for me getting there by myself...)
As I am very limited to the ships I follow, I have no fear of Doctor/Doctor happening

[Ellachanted]

found it!

[tricklem]

Just noticed that I am getting this error when updating my stories from ffpad.

sequence item 0: expected string, int found

And this one when I go to download a new story to my library. Is anyone else having this problem?



Status
Title
Author
Comment
URL
Bad
Unknown
Unknown
sequence item 0: expected string, int found
https://fictionpad.com/author/tufano79/stories/11113

[PandathePanda]

Originally Posted by tricklem

Just noticed that I am getting this error when updating my stories from ffpad.

sequence item 0: expected string, int found

And this one when I go to download a new story to my library. Is anyone else having this problem?



Status
Title
Author
Comment
URL
Bad
Unknown
Unknown
sequence item 0: expected string, int found
https://fictionpad.com/author/tufano79/stories/11113

Works here. (2.2.4 (or so fff say) and calibre 1.4.8)