[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by jesscat

I would like pairings separated with "&" on AO3 (eg "Harry & Severus") NOT to be included in "ships" (for purposes of my #ships custom column), but I'd still like them to be included in the Tags column.

I can easily remove the pairing from ships with replace_metadata. But I can't figure out how to do this while keeping the pairing in the tag list - if it isn't a separate tag or character, removing it from ships removes it from the tags. I thought about ships2chars, somehow putting this ship into Characters, but as far as I can tell I can't use that to accomplish what I want (though I have to admit I don't completely understand what ship2chars does and can't find much about it in default.ini or here in the forums, so I definitely could be wrong).

Because you both want to edit ships and not edit ships in different places, you need to make a copy of ships:

add_to_extra_valid_entries:,onlyromships
include_in_onlyromships:ships

Entry onlyromships is now a copy of ships. Remove '&' entries from onlyromships and set it into your ships column. replace_metadata lines for onlyromships will not effect ships.

Alternatively, you could do:

add_to_extra_valid_entries:,allships
include_in_allships:ships.NOREPL

Entry allships is now a copy of ships that won't have any of ships' replacements (.NOREPL==no replacements). But then you have to change include_subject_tags to use allships instead of ships which involves more steps.

ships2chars isn't really a feature of FFF so much as a use pattern to add all characters that appear in ships to characters for sites/authors that don't list them all. Searching this thread for ships2chars (note ships) finds a number of posts where it was discussed.

(Make sure you only have one add_to_extra_valid_entries in each section, BTW.)

[jesscat]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Because you both want to edit ships and not edit ships in different places, you need to make a copy of ships:

Thank you!!! That's the element I was overlooking, and now I understand better how I can make my own "variables" (or whatever the right term is?). This works perfectly! I'm glad you included the other solution too - I don't think it would work for me here because I have other replacements in ships besides this one, but it still helps my understanding.

[chrnno]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

The logpage feature didn't get a lot of discussion because, until now--to the best of my knowledge--nobody but me used it.

Been actually using it myself for years, it just works with what I want it to do and never had noticed any issues so never brought it up. Mine does have words_added if that is worth anything, though I have no idea where I got it from.

[JimmXinu]

Glad it's useful to you.

[JimmXinu]

My mistake. Thanks for point that out.

Originally Posted by Twilight666

Just FYI, for some reason CLI version 3.7 has not been released yet:
https://pypi.org/project/FanFicFare/#history

[jesscat]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Glad it's useful to you.

Again, and even though I'm a relative newbie to using FFF with Calibre (though not to FFF, Calibre, or fanfic - just to the combination!) - I think it's great!

[jesscat]

I have a tristate boolean custom column (#my_bookmark) for recording whether I have a story bookmarked on AO3 ("bookmarked"). In personal.ini, under [archiveofourown.org], I have:

add_to_custom_columns_settings:
 bookmarked=>#my_bookmarks

That's the only reference to "bookmarked" in my personal.ini.

A few posts up I asked about recording bookmarks for AO3 series, and you explained why that wasn't feasible. Yet for some reason, starting sometime after Friday (today is the first time since Friday that I made an anthology), whenever I anthologize a series from AO3 using "Make anthology epub from Web Page," the new anthology ePub is created with its #my_bookmark column flagged "yes" (ie, bookmarked).

I can't figure out how this could be happening. There shouldn't be any way for an anthology created by FFF to be automatically bookmarked should there? There is no series bookmark field, and I didn't think there was a mechanism for FFF to set the bookmarked column of an anthology based on the bookmarked status of the composite stories (at least one of the composite stories of my anthologies is always bookmarked on AO3).

Just in case, I double checked the ePub Merge plugin settings to make sure, but ePub Merge is not configured to set that column at all. I have no reference to "bookmarked" in my personal.ini other than the one above. I have nothing in my personal.ini about anthologies other than a slight change to the title pattern.

Do you have any thoughts about what might be causing this?

If it matters, here's an example of one series on which I used the anthology feature, that was created with a "bookmarked" status, though I'm not sure if it will help since you don't have the same custom column as I do:

https://archiveofourown.org/series/387988

[JimmXinu]

@jesscat - I don't know what's going on for you. I don't get that behavior.

I have a boolean custom column, with tri-state bools enabled in Calibre settings, set from bookmarked very similarly. My custom column is left 'null' when none of the stories are bookmarked, when one is bookmarked, or when all are bookmarked.

I put in some debug output and the values are exactly what I expect and behave as predicted.

The only thing I can think of is if you have replace_metadata settings that remove 'False' values and there is exactly one bookmarked=='True' story in the series. Except that you said you don't have any other bookmarked references. (Or, I suppose if you're setting it from the Custom Columns tab by mistake.)

If you look on the personal.ini tab, there's a 'View "Safe" personal.ini' button. I might be able to help more if I see your entire personal.ini. [CODE] tag is helpful for that, or attached .txt file.

[Tharos]

The Adapter for webnovel.com stops at the end of volume 1 and does not take the chapters of volume 2 with it.

Example: https://www.webnovel.com/book/117217...onate-Spitfire

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2019-04-21
- Update adapter_asianfanficscom to fetch chapter texts from JSON url.
- Ad wall indicator has changed for adapter_webnovelcom.

Originally Posted by Tharos

The Adapter for webnovel.com stops at the end of volume 1 and does not take the chapters of volume 2 with it.

Example: https://www.webnovel.com/book/117217...onate-Spitfire

It looks like the indicator for ad-wall blocked chapters has changed. This test version works on the few stories from webnovel.com I've tried, but I don't read that site, so I only tested a small set.

[jesscat]

T

he only thing I can think of is if you have replace_metadata settings that remove 'False' values and there is exactly one bookmarked=='True' story in the series

Out of curiosity, what would this do? I don't have these settings, but I am having trouble seeing how they would affect the "bookmarked" value of the series.

The phenomenon I described has mostly stopped, though it still is happening occasionally, and I can't see a pattern. It happened with a non-anthology story downloaded from another site as well - the story (from ff.net, for which I have nothing assigned to my #my_bookmarks custom column) downloaded and then appeared in my library with the bookmarked flag set to yes.

I'm assuming there is something in my settings or personal.ini that is causing this, but it's difficult for me to figure out since it happens only occasionally. I will turn on debug mode and try to capture this happening, and if/when I do, I'll attach the log, since there's not much further to be done without it.

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I have another question/issue. Here's story on AO3 with the author "tessarwyn [archived by TheHexFiles_Archivist]:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/8188919

Under [archiveofourown.org], I have

use_archived_author:true

I thought that this would cause the "author" field for stories like this to be set to "tessarwyn" rather than "TheHexFiles_Archivist" without my having to do anything else. But it is not working. The author field shows TheHexFiles_Archivist.

Am I doing something wrong or am I misunderstanding the function of use_archived_author?

Thanks!

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2019-04-21
- Update adapter_asianfanficscom to fetch chapter texts from JSON url.
- Ad wall indicator has changed for adapter_webnovelcom.
- Fix use_archived_author in AO3.

Originally Posted by jesscat

Out of curiosity, what would this do? I don't have these settings, but I am having trouble seeing how they would affect the "bookmarked" value of the series.

If the string evaluates (case insensitively) to 'true' ('t'/'yes'/'y'/'1') it will be treated as True, regardless of how it got there.

Originally Posted by jesscat

The phenomenon I described has mostly stopped, though it still is happening occasionally, and I can't see a pattern. ...

Yeeeah... I made my suggestion (post safe personal.ini).

Originally Posted by jesscat

I have another question/issue. Here's story on AO3 with the author "tessarwyn [archived by TheHexFiles_Archivist]: ...

Broken regex from BS4 conversion lo these many moons ago. Or maybe the Python3 conversion.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2019-04-22
- Improvements for adapter_asianfanficscom, thanks oh45454545

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2019-04-23
- More improvements for adapter_asianfanficscom, including auto_sub feature, thanks oh45454545

[jesscat]

Entry onlyromships is now a copy of ships. Remove '&' entries from onlyromships and set it into your ships column. replace_metadata lines for onlyromships will not effect ships.

A few days ago when you helpfully instructed me how to do this, I included this line in my personal.ini and it worked great:

exclude_metadata_post: 
 onlyromships=~[ ]*&[ ]

Today it wasn't working for me, and in attempting to debug, I discovered this works:

exclude_metadata_post: 
 onlyromships=~[ ]*&[ ]

I had thought I read in an earlier post that the ampersand was the one symbol that didn't follow the usual reg ex rules and had to be & Did something change in the last few days? (I have been staying up to date on the test versions.) Or am I imagining this?