[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

To prevent making silly typos that break my replace_metadatas, I've started copying entries directly from the saved metadata longtext column. But then pasting it in personal.ini does this:

Attachment 184313

shouldn't it be pasting as plain-text?

That's the default paste behavior for the edit box. The color/font appearance doesn't matter--it gets saved as plain text regardless. You'd have to remove the bullet char either way.

Originally Posted by Elphaeba

I started having this same issue this morning this is what the log says:

Could not find a suitable TLS CA certificate bundle, invalid path: <AppData path removed>Local\Temp\tmplec4n9cv
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13706378/1/

Calibre Versions : 5.8.1 newest version of Fanficfare

You've already quoted my response:

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

I'd need to see the full debug log.

Run Calibre in debug mode (under Calibre's Preferences drop down), try again, quit Calibre and post the debug log--assumes it still happens.

[Elphaeba]

Wanted to let you know it works fine now must have just been a hiccup. I had not known about the debug mode of calibre.

[AndreaEnTalca]

Hi:

I'm a long fan of FanFicFare. I'd been using it for years without any problems.

I'm currently using FanFicFare v3.27.0 which I updated a week ago. Ever since I did so, I'm having problems downloading fics.

It displays WinError 10013 for A03 and when I try to use FFNET it shows this: "HTTPSConnectionPool(host='www.fanfiction.net' , port=443): Max retries exceeded with URL:"

Sadly, I'm not very knowledgeable about technology, and I have no idea what these messages mean. I'd been thinking about uninstalling FanFicfare and reinstall it. Do you think this could be a suitable solution?

I appreciate your advice.

[JimmXinu]

I don't know know what those messages mean either in your context. But I can recommend same instructions I gave two posts before yours:

Run Calibre in debug mode (under Calibre's Preferences drop down), try again, quit Calibre and post the debug log.

[bpothier]

This is regarding the "append_datepublished_to_storyurl" option added in 2020-12-24 test build. This will update the identifiers:url field by appending the pubdate in SOLID-YYYY-MM-DD format.

Originally Posted by bpothier

existing stories are not identified as their URL still uses the "plain"(without YYYY-MM-DD suffix) so will need to figure out a rewrite for existing URLs to avoid re-downloading updated stories completely, but thank you for a quick update!

Ok, figured out a "works for me" solution to update the identifiers:url to include pubdate. This is my first attempt, so it is likely ugly/inefficient/etc... but like I said, it "worked for me"

0) Backup/copy/etc.. your Calibre DB before breaking anything
1) Expand "Publisher" and select "storiesonline.net" (or whichever other source) to restrict your story list to SoL only
2) Select a few stories to test before changing them all (optional I suppose)
3) Edit Metadata (arrow)/ Edit Metadata in bulk
4) Search and Replace tab

Search field: {template}
Search mode: Regular expression
Template: {identifiers:'assign(URL,select($,'url'));assign(SOLURL,re(URL,'(.*/s/\d+).*','\1'));assign(PUBD,format_date(raw_field('pubdate'),"yyyy-MM-dd"));strcat(SOLURL,"-",PUBD)'}
Search for: (.*)
Replace with: \1
Destination field: identifiers
Identifier type: url

(this strips off the URL identifier up to "/s/######" and discards anything else after the series of numbers (including any existing pubdate suffix) and then computes and appends the pubdate to the end)
Optional: "save" and give it a name.
5) Verify "Test result" column shows expected results
6) Apply or OK
7) Verify the metadata identifiers for those books
8) Repeat for all SoL books
9) ????
10) Profit?

[DragoLord19d]

Quick question whenever i try to download ff.net i now get this error.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4765465...raka-crossover
Status
Title
Author
Comment
URL
Error
Unknown
Unknown
Could not find a suitable TLS CA certificate bundle, invalid path: C:\Users\DRAGOL~1\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpxvnfxqio
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4765465/1/

[ownedbycats]

What version of Calibre are you using?

[DragoLord19d]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

What version of Calibre are you using?

5.8.1

[ownedbycats]

Good to know.

Jim will be able to figure out what's going on more if you restart in debug mode (the little dropdown under Preferences), try downloading the fic again, and post the debug log it spits out. It'll be long so put it under spoiler tags (or just attach the file).

[DragoLord19d]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Good to know.

Jim will be able to figure out what's going on more if you restart in debug mode (the little dropdown under Preferences), try downloading the fic again, and post the debug log it spits out. It'll be long so put it under spoiler tags.

Got it, I’ll do it once the internet’s back.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by DragoLord19d

Could not find a suitable TLS CA certificate bundle, invalid path: C:\Users\DRAGOL~1\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpxvnfxqio

You’re the third person to report it, but the first to include the entire error message, let alone a debug log.

It looks like it might be an issue with the temp file that the bundled CA certs are written to.

Does it happen every time, or just once in a while?

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

It looks like it might be an issue with the temp file that the bundled CA certs are written to.

File permission issue? Overzealous security software eating the temp file?

[JimmXinu]

Who knows. There's not much use speculating ahead of data. I've asked what I consider the most important clarifying question.

[bigwoof]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

You’re the third person to report it, but the first to include the entire error message, let alone a debug log.

It looks like it might be an issue with the temp file that the bundled CA certs are written to.

Does it happen every time, or just once in a while?

I had the same 'can't find the tmp file' error today on my linux machine. but this was completely self inflicted.

The reason was that I found a lot (I'm talking about a hundred or so) of tmp files named tmp[a-z0-9]{8} each of size 262K inside /tmp. So I deleted all of them and FanFicFare crashed next time I did an update of books.

For some reason, the cloudscraper library seems to be creating a tmp file full of all the root certificates for every book that is processed.. not sure why it needs its own copy instead of just using the file that is already there..

In any case, these files quickly build up..

is anyone else seeing this?

[JimmXinu]

Yeah, I'm seeing that too on Win10. That's the requests code for when the certifi modules is packaged in the same zip file.

I assumed it was reasonably intelligent and didn't look at it too closely. But apparently I should.