[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[JimmXinu]

New test version (direct link)

2016-02-02
Fix for portkey.org--Don't use cache on first hit in case added adult cookie.
Add (partial) translations for Estonian and Norwegian Bokmål

[Nightliss]

Hey,

I'm getting:

<urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:581)>

while trying to download anything from storiesonline.net. Why?

Newest Calibre with newest FanFicFare (available from plugins menu in Calibre) on Windows 10 x64.

Any help is appreciated

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Nightliss

<urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:581)>

while trying to download anything from storiesonline.net. Why?

Newest Calibre with newest FanFicFare (available from plugins menu in Calibre) on Windows 10 x64.

Working fine for me with calibre 2.50(64bit) Windows 8, latest test version FFF.

SSL problems are generally not the plugins fault. On windows they tend to be issues with the OS cert base.

Take a look at the solution from this earlier report of a similar problem.

[firefoxxy]

Hello Jim!

I was wondering if the 'title-sorting' option does not work for me because of my language setting in calibre. (Sorry if this not what it is really called, as I am using the German language version. It's in the basic options of FFF, together with the 'author-sorting'.)

When I download English fiction, a story called 'A Wolf to Potters' stays as it is, while a story called 'Das Vermaechtnis des Severus Snape' is - correctly - changed into 'Vermaechtnis des Severus Snape, Das'. Is there a way to get FFF to sort the English titles too, without having to change the calibre language setting?

Examples:
German story
English story

Thank you!

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by firefoxxy

I was wondering if the 'title-sorting' option does not work for me because of my language setting in calibre. (Sorry if this not what it is really called, as I am using the German language version. It's in the basic options of FFF, together with the 'author-sorting'.)

When I download English fiction, a story called 'A Wolf to Potters' stays as it is, while a story called 'Das Vermaechtnis des Severus Snape' is - correctly - changed into 'Vermaechtnis des Severus Snape, Das'. Is there a way to get FFF to sort the English titles too, without having to change the calibre language setting?

That's a Calibre feature. So here's what I've found, but be aware that I may not know all the details.

Look in Calibre Preferences, under Tweaks, search for per_language_title_sort_articles. That is a data structure that defines what words are "articles" for sort strings in different languages.

The comment associated with it says that By default, calibre uses a combination of articles from English and whatever language the calibre user interface is set to. However, in practice it doesn't seem to do that. I suspect the comment is out of date.

I found that by copying the English articles(A,The,An) to the 'deu' settings does what you want. See below:

# Set the list of words considered to be "articles" for sort strings

per_language_title_sort_articles = {'afr': ("'n\\s+", 'Die\\s+'), 'nld': ('De\\s+', 'Het\\s+', 'Een\\s+', "'n\\s+", "'s\\s+", 'Ene\\s+', 'Ener\\s+', 'Enes\\s+', 'Den\\s+', 'Der\\s+', 'Des\\s+', "'t\\s+"), 'por': ('A\\s+', 'O\\s+', 'Os\\s+', 'As\\s+', 'Um\\s+', 'Uns\\s+', 'Uma\\s+', 'Umas\\s+'), 'ron': ('Un\\s+', 'O\\s+', 'Ni\xc5\x9fte\\s+'), 'hun': ('A\\s+', 'Az\\s+', 'Egy\\s+'), 'spa': ('El\\s+', 'La\\s+', 'Lo\\s+', 'Los\\s+', 'Las\\s+', 'Un\\s+', 'Una\\s+', 'Unos\\s+', 'Unas\\s+'), 'swe': ('En\\s+', 'Ett\\s+', 'Det\\s+', 'Den\\s+', 'De\\s+'), 'ita': ('Lo\\s+', 'Il\\s+', "L'", 'La\\s+', 'Gli\\s+', 'I\\s+', 'Le\\s+'), 'fra': ('Le\\s+', 'La\\s+', "L'", 'Les\\s+', 'Un\\s+', 'Une\\s+', 'Des\\s+', 'De\\s+La\\s+', 'De\\s+', "D'"), 'eng': ('A\\s+', 'The\\s+', 'An\\s+'), 'tur': ('Bir\\s+',), 'deu': ('A\\s+', 'The\\s+', 'An\\s+', 'Der\\s+', 'Die\\s+', 'Das\\s+', 'Den\\s+', 'Ein\\s+', 'Eine\\s+', 'Einen\\s+', 'Dem\\s+', 'Des\\s+', 'Einem\\s+', 'Eines\\s+'), 'ell': ('O\\s+', 'I\\s+', 'To\\s+', 'Ta\\s+', 'Tus\\s+', 'Tis\\s+', "'Enas\\s+", "'Mia\\s+", "'Ena\\s+", "'Enan\\s+")}

You can test this by using Calibre's Edit metadata on an existing book. The button next to the title edit boxes applies the 'sort' pattern. See attached.

[firefoxxy]

Thank you Jim! Added the code, tested it, and it works.

(Doing the title-sort on existing books manually, as you showed on your screenshot, has worked even before changing the code - I was just too lazy to do it manuallly all the time.)

[fathertyme]

I was glancing through the storiesonline section of the plugin, and ran across this:

(lines 319-327)

        status = lc4.find('span', {'class' : 'ab'})
        if  status != None:
            self.story.setMetadata('status', 'In-Progress')
            if "Last Activity" in status.text:
                # date is passed as a timestamp and converted in JS.
                value = status.findNext('noscript').text
                self.story.setMetadata('dateUpdated', makeDate(stripHTML(value), self.dateformat))
        else:
            self.story.setMetadata('status', 'Completed')

What is odd here is that if I'm reading this right, the plugin should always set status to either "Completed" or "In-Progress"

now... Completed works fine, but I does not set In-Progress (and incomplete would be nice as well)

it always seems to leave anything as either complete or blank


am i reading this wrong?

[davidfor]

No, you are not reading it wrong. But, it seems to be working correctly here. I tested a few stories and they all ended up with either "Completed" or "In-Progress" as a tag.

Do you have some samples that it fails for?

As to the incomplete, I agree. From memory, the plugin uses "Completed" or "In-Progress" tags, but nothing that I could use for incomplete.

[eschwartz]

When a book doesn't have a cover, I like to use the calibre-generated one, but if the book is part of a series (the default subtitle template shows the series) then the cover is off.

The series manually set in callibre is respected.

The cover generated by FFF evaluates the subtitle to: "series [series_index] - 0"
The cover generated immediately afterward by calibre ==> Edit metadata evaluates the subtitle to: "series - formatted_series_index" (uses roman numerals)


So it looks like a) it is including the series_index in the value of the series itself, and b) it isn't using the usual template (either the default or the user-set one)

[fathertyme]

OK, I removed and then re-downloaded the following:

http://storiesonline.net/s/12770

upon completion, status was blank.

I have made VERY few changes to the config (basically just passwords/logins)

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by fathertyme

I was glancing through the storiesonline section of the plugin, and ran across this:

...

now... Completed works fine, but I does not set In-Progress (and incomplete would be nice as well)

I admit the code looks a bit suspect. But I didn't write that adapter and unless you can provide URLs to stories that don't come out correctly, I'm going to assume that the original coder knew better than I do.

As for a third 'Incomplete' state, again, I need examples (and an explanation why it's different from In-Progress).

FFF generally assumes that In-Progress and Completed are the only status states. But there are a (very) few sites (FimF for example) that have additional status states. (While looking at this I found a couple adapters that use 'In Progress' with no '-'. Will correct in next version.)

Last minute addition. I see the In-Progress status fine:

Re: http://storiesonline.net/s/12770/ever-and-always
Ever and Always by Banadin
Title: Ever and Always
Genre: Drama
Status: In-Progress

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

The cover generated by FFF evaluates the subtitle to: "series [series_index] - 0"
The cover generated immediately afterward by calibre ==> Edit metadata evaluates the subtitle to: "series - formatted_series_index" (uses roman numerals)

So it looks like a) it is including the series_index in the value of the series itself, and b) it isn't using the usual template (either the default or the user-set one)

Interesting. I see that issue, too. The normalization of the series entry must happen farther upstream than the 'mi'(MetaInformation) object. The code for calling the GC plugin already re-fetches the updated DB 'mi', it's pretty trivial to do that before the calibre gen cover too.

Thanks for pointing that out.

New test version posted (direct link)

2016-02-09
Add automatic adding of unrecognized metadata in base_efiction. For tgstorytime.com.
Fix 'In Progress' to 'In-Progress' in fanfiktion.de & ficbook.net like all the others.
Fix for Calibre generated covers.
Update translations.

[fathertyme]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

As for a third 'Incomplete' state, again, I need examples (and an explanation why it's different from In-Progress).

Incomplete is defined by storiesonline as a story that has been abandoned. The flag gets set after a long enough period of time has passed without updates.

example:
http://storiesonline.net/s/54078

Last minute addition. I see the In-Progress status fine:

Re: http://storiesonline.net/s/12770/ever-and-always
Ever and Always by Banadin
Title: Ever and Always
Genre: Drama
Status: In-Progress

Interesting. This implies that it's just me that is having this issue. I'll have to investigate further to try and figure it out on my end.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by fathertyme

Incomplete is defined by storiesonline as a story that has been abandoned. The flag gets set after a long enough period of time has passed without updates.

example:
http://storiesonline.net/s/54078

Okay. I can code it to look for Incomplete and Inactive and set status to be something like:

• Incomplete and Inactive
• Incomplete
• Abandoned

Opinions? My inclination is to go with Incomplete and Inactive except that other statuses are single word.

[fathertyme]

I've been manually setting those as "Incomplete" tho "Abandoned" would be more precise