[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Estrecca

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Any suggestions?

When reporting problems, always include at least one story URL that exhibits the problem and the failure message you receive.

Ideally, you'd also include the log from running calibre in debug mode while trying. (Under Calibre Preferences drop down.)

Thanks.

[McHunter]

Originally Posted by Estrecca

Hi.

I seem to be having some issues with questionablequesting in regards to its nsfw content and would appreciate any assistance that could be provided.

I am pretty sure that I've added a valid ID and password (with the relevant permissions in regards to the desired content) to personal.ini, but when I try to download what I want, I get 403 errors.

Now, I am pretty damn terrible in regards to tinkering under the hoods of programs or, generally, anything involving code, but the modifications seem straightforward enough that even I shouldn't have been able to fuck this up.

Any suggestions?

have you set "is_adult:true" in questionablequesting or the default section of the personal.ini file?

[agumon1123]

whenever i try to download a story from quotev i get an error saying
<urlopen error unknown url type: javascript>
some example urls are:

http://www.quotev.com/story/7376297
http://www.quotev.com/story/7491427
http://www.quotev.com/story/7578057
http://www.quotev.com/story/7245249
http://www.quotev.com/story/6709580

I also included the log from calibre's debug mode.

[firefoxxy]

Hello everyone!

I have a new issue and hope you can help me again.

I have downloaded a story from potionsandsnitches: A Soldier Without a Purpose
It downloaded well, but once I transferred it onto my ebook reader (Sony PRS-T1) I got this: story cover, front page (with summary, tags, etc.), then the story starts - that's standard. What is unusual is that the text shows like this:

Spoiler:

Chapter 1: A Soldier Without a Purpose

“Class dismissed,” Severus Snape hissed from between gritted teeth, standing rigidly behind his desk.
(many blank lines)
(pagebreak)

“Please fetch Headmistress McGonagall, immediately,” Severus forced out. (...)
(then it goes without a hitch until)
And even if he could find someone willing to overlook his rather shady past and hire him, what could he do with his legs and hands betraying him?
(many blank lines)
(pagebreak)

McGonagall gave him a tiny smile. “Yes, I believe that Harry Potter would work quite well. He has actually already agreed to help you. And he has informed me that he would be available over the summer, should you desire it.”
(many blank lines)
(pagebreak)

Severus shook his head mutely, and she nodded, then left through a gap in the curtains. (...)

I didn't look how far this goes on. There seems to be an odd spacing between the paragraphs throughout the story, though - like a double line-break, instead of a single one.

When I open the story in calibre, I can see the whole text, although again with the odd spacing.

My FFF settings have 'intelligent punctuation' checked (the setting above 'Calculate Word Count').

I have know this issue from stories which I downloaded from walkingtheplank.org (that was about two or three years ago). I don't remember clearly what I did then, but I think that it was okay usually, when I downloaded them a second time (by overwriting? not sure). I can't say which stories those were, though.

Is this an issue of my Sony? Or is it something that Calibre/FFF can help solve? I hope you can help me again. Thank you!

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by agumon1123

whenever i try to download a story from quotev i get an error saying
<urlopen error unknown url type: javascript>

Excellent problem report, thanks. With that information I could identify the problem immediately. Namely, that the site has added a javascript URL to the chapter list FanFicFare uses.

I also noticed that they changed the author link so FFF wasn't finding it. The rest of the metadata looks good to me, but I don't read that site. So please review and report an additional problems.

New test version posted (direct link).

2016-03-04
- Fixes for quotev.com, author and chapter list.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by firefoxxy

I have a new issue and hope you can help me again.

I have downloaded a story from potionsandsnitches: A Soldier Without a Purpose
It downloaded well, but once I transferred it onto my ebook reader (Sony PRS-T1) I got this: story cover, front page (with summary, tags, etc.), then the story starts - that's standard. What is unusual is that the text shows like this:
...

I don't see anything terribly wrong, but it would help if I saw your copy of the epub. For example, if you have keep_style_attr:true or add_to_keep_html_attrs:,style in your personal.ini, then the style formatting on each paragraph would have been kept and could cause problems.

There are both <p> tags around paragraphs and <br> tags between them. This story is a case that could be improved by setting replace_br_with_p: true in personal.ini.

[Mandabar]

Hmm...

One of my stories (https://forums.sufficientvelocity.co...s-rehost.3509/) is no longer updateable.

The reason for this is it seems the author implemented threadmarks after using index type post for the last 500+ snips.. And he only thread marked about 32 and then.. Well I'm guessing he gave up. So my 500+ chapter epub doesn't want to update down to 32 chapters. And rightly so!

Now I know the "recent" addition of these xenfollo forum plugins prioritize threadmarks first, and then index post otherwise. Is there any way to override this or change it on a per story basis?

Also there was a story or two that I followed that didn't do either of these, most notably the ones in the story archive that are story only posts. No index or threadmarks but every post is the story.

[version365]

Thanks for this excellent plugin, it helped me a lot with saving stories locally.

I have a request though. For other sites, ratings metadata is collected, but for Literotica stories there seems to be no rating collected. Is it possible to get the story rating for Literotica?

[firefoxxy]

Hello Jim!

I don't have either of the settings in my personal.ini, but will use the third option (replace_br_with_p: true) from now on. Hopefully that will stop the 'lost' paragraphs from happening.

Thank you!

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Update:

I added the setting replace_br_with_p: true and deleted the old ebook and downloaded it againg (just to be sure, because in addition I have problems with the replace_metadata in this story). Then I have uploaded the story onto my reader.

It has the exact same passages missing.

I don't know what's wrong. So, I am uploading the complete personal.ini and the ebook and hope that's something fixable. I appreciate any help, as always.

[version365]

Originally Posted by version365

Thanks for this excellent plugin, it helped me a lot with saving stories locally.

I have a request though. For other sites, ratings metadata is collected, but for Literotica stories there seems to be no rating collected. Is it possible to get the story rating for Literotica?

I would like to add that, calibre uses stars for showing ratings but, literotica's ratings are in floating point numbers.. so, the rating from literotica should be retrieved in a diff column with floating point numbers.

Also, is it possible to organise the summaries in multi-chapter stories in number mode like, 1. , 2. , 3. , and so on instead of just ' / ' ?

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Mandabar

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Now I know the "recent" addition of these xenfollo forum plugins prioritize threadmarks first, and then index post otherwise. Is there any way to override this or change it on a per story basis?

You can use a post URL instead of a thread URL (https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/posts/467277/ in this case) and FanFicFare will use chapter URLs in the post, not threadmarks.

Originally Posted by Mandabar

Also there was a story or two that I followed that didn't do either of these, most notably the ones in the story archive that are story only posts. No index or threadmarks but every post is the story.

There isn't a good way to deal with those right now. I'll look into it again now that [storyUrl] sections are a thing.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by version365

Thanks for this excellent plugin, it helped me a lot with saving stories locally.

I have a request though. For other sites, ratings metadata is collected, but for Literotica stories there seems to be no rating collected. Is it possible to get the story rating for Literotica?

Glad you like it.

To the best of my knowledge, Literotica stories don't have ratings. If I'm wrong, please provide a couple story URLs that show it. (And tell me where as I haven't see it.)

You could add this to your personal.ini to set a default rating for all Literotica stories.

[literotica.com]
default_value_rating:MA

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by firefoxxy

...
I added the setting replace_br_with_p: true and deleted the old ebook and downloaded it againg (just to be sure, because in addition I have problems with the replace_metadata in this story). Then I have uploaded the story onto my reader.

It has the exact same passages missing.

That personal.ini doesn't contain replace_br_with_p: true, nor does the posted epub show that it was applied. Sorry, but looks like user error there, to me. Using the latest test version you can use this to only apply to that one story:

[http://www.potionsandsnitches.org/fanfiction/viewstory.php?sid=3094]
replace_br_with_p: true

I do see one oddity in the HTML source (a high level <span> around all paragraphs, technically not allowed), but I don't know why it would cause the problems described in your Sony reader. You could try removing that manually and see if it helps.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by version365

I would like to add that, calibre uses stars for showing ratings but, literotica's ratings are in floating point numbers.. so, the rating from literotica should be retrieved in a diff column with floating point numbers.

'Rating' in FanFicFare means K, T+, M, MA, FR18, etc, etc depending on site. The name mis-match with calibre occurred because FanFicFare existed (and still exists) outside calibre before the calibre plugin version.

I believe FFF collects 'star' for one site (actually labeled 'Frogs' on the title page), but I don't think there currently are numeric ratings for any others.

Originally Posted by version365

Also, is it possible to organise the summaries in multi-chapter stories in number mode like, 1. , 2. , 3. , and so on instead of just ' / ' ?

I don't read literotica, so I'm not familiar with it's organization. Can you provide a concrete example with story URL(s) of what you're talking about?

[firefoxxy]

Okay, that's embarrassing... You were right: When I just looked into my personal.ini it wasn't there. So I copied replace_br_with_p: true into my personal.ini. I closed it, opened it again because I was not sure if I might have closed the settings by escape instead of clicking ok. And it was there. Then I deleted and re-downloaded the fic. I opened the ebook, again it had the odd spacing. I went back to my personal.ini - and the replace_br_with_p: true line was gone.

I closed and restarted calibre. Added the setting once more, restarted, and re-downloaded the story again. It worked. Thank you.

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I don't want to spam the forum, so I'll add this here, too. Sorry for being such a bother.

The replace_metadata is not working well for this story and I can't figure out what the problem is.

While it does change Canon Snape and Injured Snape correctly it doesn't work with Depressed Snape, Colleague Snape and Harry, Snape Equal status to Harry.

I tried using category instead of genre, but that didn't help either. The rest is the same as in the personal.ini above.

Spoiler:

replace_metadata:
 takesplaces=>^0 - Pre Hogwarts.*$=>0 - Pre Hogwarts&&category=>Kid Fic
 snapeflavours=>^Angry Snape$=>Angry Severus&&category=>Anger
 snapeflavours=>^Comforting Snape$=>Comforting Severus&&category=>Hurt-Comfort
 snapeflavours=>^Depressed Snape$=>Depressed Severus&&category=>Drama
 snapeflavours=>^Desperate Snape$=>Desperate Severus&&category=>Drama
 snapeflavours=>^Kind Snape$=>Kind Severus&&category=>Fluff
 snapeflavours=>^Loving Snape$=>Loving Severus&&category=>Fluff
 snapeflavours=>^Overly-protective Snape$=>Overly-protective Severus&&category=>Protectiveness
 category=>Colleague Snape and Harry=>Colleagues&&ships=>Harry & Severus
 category=>^Guardian Snape$=>Guardian/Mentor&&ships=>Harry & Severus
 category=Snape Equal Status to Harry=>Harry Equal Status to Severus

Thank you for having a look.