[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[JimmXinu]

@sonofden - webnovel claims that the text it is giving FFF for that chapter is already HTML, but the <> around that are not escaped. So FFF is treating it as an HTML tag that it doesn't recognize. Which is technically correct.

Browsers, which are much more complex, can realize it's a tag they don't recognize and take a guess that it's an HTML error and show it to you.

So there isn't really anything FFF can do about it--the site (and/or the author) is giving you bad HTML.

[leckadams]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Well, clearly the error is that it's failed to login. Mine logged in fine using the same versions.

The most obvious question is: Do you have the correct AO3 password set in personal.ini? But you said you do.

You've apparently figured out how to log errors, what do you get if you also run calibre in debug mode? There should be some additional details output that way.

Ran it in debug mode and found the error. Thank you for the suggestion of debug mode!

[cryzed]

@sonofden, I just made sure: here is the "HTML" that is returned for that chapter. That is not valid HTML, nothing we can do to fix that. Directly contacting webnovel is probably ill-advised.

EDIT: I just came up with this, which seems to work well. If Jimm decides to merge it, you'd have to enable it by setting "fix_pseudo_html:true" in the "www.webnovel.com" section in your configuration.

[Tharos]

1. Wuxiaworld has received a new Layout. The adapter probably needs an update.
   
2. And LightNovelGate causes an error message:
   

   Fehler
   Ancient Strengthening Technique (Portraits of Beauty)
   I Am Superfluous (我是多余人)
   'chaptertitle'
   http://lightnovelgate.com/novel/anci...aits_of_beauty

Update: Wuxiaworld also causes an error message at http://www.wuxiaworld.com/novel/anci...ning-technique

Ungeeignet
Unknown
Unknown
Story does not exist: (404 error: http://www.wuxiaworld.com/novel/)
http://www.wuxiaworld.com/novel/

[Bixel925]

So I have recently discovered the CLI side of FFF. I was wondering if there was anyone here that could help me out in creating a script that would cause FFF to check my email (via IMAP) for any new stories.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Bixel925

So I have recently discovered the CLI side of FFF. I was wondering if there was anyone here that could help me out in creating a script that would cause FFF to check my email (via IMAP) for any new stories.

It's not all that hard. Copied from defaults.ini:

[defaults]
## The FFF CLI can fetch story URLs from unread emails when configured
## to read from your IMAP mail server.  The example shows GMail, but
## other services that support IMAP can be used.  GMail requires you
## to turn on an option to enable IMAP access. Only the CLI uses these
## options--the Calibre Plugin stores these separately.
##
## It's safest if you create a separate email account that you use
## only for your story update notices.  FanFicFare cannot guarantee
## that malicious code cannot get your email password once you've
## saved it. Use this feature at your own risk.
##
imap_server:imap.gmail.com
imap_username:youraddress@gmail.com
imap_password:XXXXXXXX
imap_folder:INBOX

Then you call the CLI with options --download-imap and maybe --update-epub depending.

BUT! Using the CLI does not automatically update or add to your books in Calibre. CLI is generally meant for people who aren't using Calibre.

If you keep your fanfic library in Calibre it's a lot easier to configure IMAP downloads from the FFF plugin config dialog and do it from inside Calibre.

[Bixel925]

Well nuts. I was hoping CLI was about the same thing as doing it in Calibre so everything stays updated using the email option.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Tharos

1. Wuxiaworld has received a new Layout. The adapter probably needs an update.
   
2. And LightNovelGate causes an error message:
   

wuxiaworld.com has apparently changed, yes. Also reported here. I'm going to give it a while before I look at because a) it's new and may change more and b) maybe somebody who actually reads that site will take an interest in maintaining FFF support for it.

I'm not getting an error from that story on lightnovelgate.com

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2018-03-11
- Add output_filename to --meta-only (#271), from theit8514
- Add fix_pseudo_html option for webnovel.com site only, from cryzed

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2018-03-12
- Fix fix_pseudo_html in configurable.py for plugin edit check.
- adapter_storiesonline(FineStories.com) fix for missing author link in header tag, from GComyn.

[gustyeagle]

How would I force fanficfare to make all of covers like this https://imgur.com/a/yivZT.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by gustyeagle

How would I force fanficfare to make all of covers like this https://imgur.com/a/yivZT.

There's two steps to always getting covers make from the title page. One is to prevent images from the sites from ever being used as covers and then generating the cover image from the epub. (This assumes you are using epub as the target format. You can convert to azw or whatever after that.)

In personal.ini put:

[defaults]
never_make_cover: true

On the 'Calibre Cover' tab of FanFicFare plugin config, set 'Update Calibre Cover (from epub)' to 'Yes, Always'.

That should cause the cover to be an image of the title page whenever you add/update a story.

[gustyeagle]

Thank you so much, I was fiddling with settings for like half an hour to figure this out.

[JimmXinu]

New test version posted

2018-03-13
- Update adapter for wuxiaworld.com -- thanks cryzed!
- Remove extra CSS line from default ini files.
- Update translations

[Roon1]

I am not sure if this is where I post problems but its really is not clear where to post. For the last week or so I have been having problems downloading from my fanficfare plugin into calibre via the email option. The majority of fics have an error message of "Failed to connect to worker process" (I have no idea what this means). The last couple of days nothing I have tried to download has uploaded into calibre. This problem is across all the sites I use but primarily FF.Net and A03. I am up to date with the plugin and have installed the lasted Calibre update 3.19. Can someone help?

See attached list

Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12866220/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12766626/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12856645/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12159298/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12867030/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12751593/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12866993/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://archiveofourown.org/works/13955370
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12825037/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12707659/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://archiveofourown.org/works/13905720
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12861413/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11445966/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10727911/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10329732/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12817225/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12826086/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12787917/1/
Failed to connect to worker process http://starslibrary.net/viewstory.php?sid=12036
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12861394/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11956114/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://archiveofourown.org/works/13739688
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12649295/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12825201/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12360979/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://archiveofourown.org/works/9662132
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12065887/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12671386/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12778598/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12855936/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12562072/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10843543/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12863701/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12802198/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11950785/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12670728/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12865604/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12271480/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12857337/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7015072/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12712153/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12803585/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12351100/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12609763/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11488630/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12485416/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12796820/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12769820/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11902198/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12597569/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12833176/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11010914/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://archiveofourown.org/works/13952481
Failed to connect to worker process https://archiveofourown.org/works/13604040
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12338849/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12769058/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12833912/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12866600/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12822895/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12865651/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12866748/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12866635/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12293437/1/
Failed to connect to worker process https://archiveofourown.org/works/13918467
Failed to connect to worker process https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12389426/1/
Failed to connect to worker process http://starslibrary.net/viewstory.php?sid=4206