[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[sam007]

Hi,
I was using FFF on linux ok, but I can't seem to be able to make it work on Win7 (64bit). Sometimes it download the story, but not very often (and it definitely doesn't depend on the story - as the same url is like 1 out of 10 times downloaded.)

I have Calibre 64-bit , but I tried it with 32-bit too and then tried it with deleted options/config in AppData.

Here is the log of Calibre 64 with clean state.

I can upload the other log files too if needded.
for your

[JimmXinu]

Searching for info about IncompleteRead errors with Python, the most common cause seems to be errors in HTTP/1.1 chunking, usually on the server side.

According to the log file, you're hitting AO3 stories. That's a very popular site, and I'm not hearing about that error from other people nor seeing it myself. So I'm going to assume that it's not a server issue. Which suggests it's something in between, like a proxy, firewall or masquerading router.

I found at least one reference about virus detector/firewall was causing this problem. "Online Shield" part of AVG. Are your AV, firewall, etc all up to date? If you run a local firewall or proxy, can you try disabling it?

Originally Posted by sam007

Hi,
I was using FFF on linux ok, but I can't seem to be able to make it work on Win7 (64bit). Sometimes it download the story, but not very often (and it definitely doesn't depend on the story - as the same url is like 1 out of 10 times downloaded.)

I have Calibre 64-bit , but I tried it with 32-bit too and then tried it with deleted options/config in AppData.

Here is the log of Calibre 64 with clean state.

I can upload the other log files too if needded.
for your

[sam007]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Searching for info about IncompleteRead errors with Python, the most common cause seems to be errors in HTTP/1.1 chunking, usually on the server side.

According to the log file, you're hitting AO3 stories. That's a very popular site, and I'm not hearing about that error from other people nor seeing it myself. So I'm going to assume that it's not a server issue. Which suggests it's something in between, like a proxy, firewall or masquerading router.

I found at least one reference about virus detector/firewall was causing this problem. "Online Shield" part of AVG. Are your AV, firewall, etc all up to date? If you run a local firewall or proxy, can you try disabling it?

Thank you!

I had to disable both Avast shields and Windows firewall, but it works now.

Really thank you

[cryzed]

Instead of disabling the programs responsible for your system's security entirely, you might want to check if there are ways to add exceptions for FanFicFare. I think you would have to add exceptions for "calibre-parallel.exe" in Avast. The Windows firewall shouldn't interfere if there aren't any strange non-standard rules defined -- if there were, it would most likely simply block all outgoing traffic for that executable, so this really shouldn't be it.

[JimmXinu]

New test version posted (direct link)

2016-06-21

- Fix for older harrypotterfanfictioncom stories lacking reviewjs.js (thanks GComyn).
- Fix for previously failedtoload img tags causing lookup sleeps.

This is probably the last test version before new release later this week.

[FicReader81]

Hi. I was trying to update a fanfic from AOOO present in my library when I received the following message.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/7214746 requires that you be an adult. Please confirm you are an adult in your locale :

I have the option to choose Yes or No. When I press Yes, the same message comes up once again and when I press Yes the 2nd time, it says Fanficfare download ended and that None of the stories can be/need to be downloaded.
Using View Log, it says the same thing that Story requires confirmation of adult status. I have updated this story a few times and didn't receive this message before.
Also, AOOO has asked me for verification before but when I pressed yes, it would show me a message/window asking for my AOOO username and password, which once input the download/update would succeed. Can you help me with this?
I have since then tried a few more downloads/updates and I receive the message a few times, not every time. Would appreciate your help.

[pillbox]

Originally Posted by FicReader81

Hi. I was trying to update a fanfic from AOOO present in my library when I received the following message.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/7214746 requires that you be an adult. Please confirm you are an adult in your locale :

I have the option to choose Yes or No. When I press Yes, the same message comes up once again and when I press Yes the 2nd time, it says Fanficfare download ended and that None of the stories can be/need to be downloaded.
Using View Log, it says the same thing that Story requires confirmation of adult status. I have updated this story a few times and didn't receive this message before.
Also, AOOO has asked me for verification before but when I pressed yes, it would show me a message/window asking for my AOOO username and password, which once input the download/update would succeed. Can you help me with this?
I have since then tried a few more downloads/updates and I receive the message a few times, not every time. Would appreciate your help.

I'm having more or less the same problem - fff asks for adult permissions (twice) and then logs as not having received it despite it having been granted.

The weird(er) thing is that it worked fine a few days ago, the personal.ini is still set to adult=true.

[JimmXinu]

I'm seeing this intermittently, too. Sometimes it's working with that story, sometimes it's not.

The two most likely causes are:

1) The AO3 site is changing their site and the changes haven't been rolled out to all their servers yet. If true, FFF will need to change to accommodate the changes. But it's very difficult to tell until the changes are appearing consistently.

2) The AO3 site may be having problems. That happens sometimes.

We'll just have to wait and see if the problem gets worse or better before we'll know.

Originally Posted by FicReader81

Hi. I was trying to update a fanfic from AOOO present in my library when I received the following message.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/7214746 requires that you be an adult. Please confirm you are an adult in your locale :

I have the option to choose Yes or No. When I press Yes, the same message comes up once again and when I press Yes the 2nd time, it says Fanficfare download ended and that None of the stories can be/need to be downloaded.
Using View Log, it says the same thing that Story requires confirmation of adult status. I have updated this story a few times and didn't receive this message before.
Also, AOOO has asked me for verification before but when I pressed yes, it would show me a message/window asking for my AOOO username and password, which once input the download/update would succeed. Can you help me with this?
I have since then tried a few more downloads/updates and I receive the message a few times, not every time. Would appreciate your help.

[galaxyutii]

The AO3 adult verification issue has been affecting me consistently for the past few hours on every fic I try to update. I checked the AO3 changelogs (http://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts?tag=1) and it looks like they updated a myriad of things on June 15. Maybe one of those changes (e.g. switching from XHTML to HTML5) is just now being implemented across the board and it's affecting FFF communications with the AO3 servers?

[JimmXinu]

I've looked at the AO3 issue a bit more, and frankly it looks like they have a bit of an interface bug at the moment.

If I go to a story URL (when not logged in), such as http://archiveofourown.org/works/7214746, it warns about the evils of "adult content" and gives a Proceed button. There's also fine print about "accept cookies...will not be asked again".

When I click Proceed, it goes to http://archiveofourown.org/works/721...iew_adult=true, like it used to. But then it immediately redirects to the first chapter URL (http://archiveofourown.org/works/721...pters/16372990) where there is another warning about the evils and a Proceed button to go to the same chapter URL with ?view_adult=true added.

And every time you click to a new chapter, you get yet another warning about the evils and a Proceed button. Apparently their cookie mechanism is broken.

That's not an ideal desirable user experience, so I expect that AO3 will realize that and do something about it.

And I don't want to change FFF to match the current behavior when I have reason to expect them to change it again. I'll look into it again tomorrow.

[JimmXinu]

It looks to me like AO3 has addressed their issues and things are working again (without changing FFF).

Anyone still seeing problems?

[MerlinMama]

No problems here, although I was consistently on (and downloading from) AO3 for the past week and wasn't affected at all.

[thatblondelady]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

It looks to me like AO3 has addressed their issues and things are working again (without changing FFF).

Anyone still seeing problems?

I'm updating successfully where I was not able to do so yesterday. Seems OK to me.

[JimmXinu]

Version 2.3.4 - 23 Jun 2016

• - Fix for previously failedtoload img tags causing lookup sleeps.
• - Fix for older harrypotterfanfictioncom stories lacking reviewjs.js.
• - Change adapter_fictionmaniatv to set status Completed instead of Complete (no d).
• - Update StoriesOnlineNet/FineStoriesCom login URL.
• - Different detect StoryDoesNotExist string for ficwad.com.
• - Allow old showpost.php chapter URLs in base_xenforoforum.
• - Update (& Fix) Translations.

[belton180]

Hi, I was wondering if its possible to include options when downloading from xenforoforum sites. I noticed that if both threadmarks and an index are present in a thread, fanficfare seems to default to threadmarks. I would like the option to choose since some indexes are more updated and/or include other posts not threadmarked (omakes, etc.). Also, would it be possible to include downloading the entire thread? I've seen archive threads on both sufficientvelocity and spacebattles that only contain story posts. A prompt could be given as warning that the whole thread is being downloaded.

Thank you