[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[MonicaOP]

Hi, I wanted to ask if there is any chance you'll include https://www.novelhall.com/ into the list of sites for this app!!

Thank you, be well, Monica

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by motherat

I have a -- probably somewhat pedantic -- question: Is there a way to exclude certain metadata values in an epub's content.opf?

Specifically, I'm looking to leave out the creation date/dateCreated. It's nice and easy to do for the title page, but nothing I've tried works for the opf.

There's no such option currently; those dates are hardcoded to be in the epub.

Why do you want to exclude them?

Originally Posted by MonicaOP

Hi, I wanted to ask if there is any chance you'll include https://www.novelhall.com/ into the list of sites for this app!!

FAQ: Please add site XYZ to FanFicFare?

[motherat]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

There's no such option currently; those dates are hardcoded to be in the epub.

Why do you want to exclude them?

Ah, thanks for letting me know. It's mostly for nitpicky privacy reasons; I sometimes share files with private groups and don't need everyone else to know when exactly insomnia has resulted in a productive (or not so productive) night.

[ownedbycats]

I can confirm using the FFDL cache is much faster; usually Calibre locks up for 30 seconds-2 minutes as it digs through the cache, even if I empty it beforehand. With FFDL that took less than 10.

[kim67255]

You have been nice enough to help me with this. Can I ask for your help again? I've been working with the workaround using the cashe steps. It's a pain. Is this new way faster/more like the way we used to update stories? I have found I just have to get the first chapter then any updated chapters together. Then it updates. It gets time-consuming. I would love to be able to not have to do that. But I'm ok doing it the same way if any of this makes sense.

Thank you for any help you can give me.

[ownedbycats]

Question:

Just out of curiosity, I wanted to see if browser_cache_path:%LocalAppData%\fanficdownloader \cache\QtWebEngine\Default\Cache (which is it's a valid Windows path!) would work. Unfortunately I got

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "calibre_plugins.fanficfare_plugin.dialogs", line 1396, in accept
  File "calibre_plugins.fanficfare_plugin.fff_util", line 48, in test_config
  File "D:\AppData\calibre\plugins\FanFicFare.zip\fanficfare\configurable.py", line 911, in test_config
  File "configparser.py", line 859, in items
  File "configparser.py", line 859, in <listcomp>
  File "configparser.py", line 855, in <lambda>
  File "configparser.py", line 395, in before_get
  File "configparser.py", line 442, in _interpolate_some
configparser.InterpolationSyntaxError: '%' must be followed by '%' or '(', found: '%LocalAppData%\\fanficdownloader\\cache\\QtWebEngine\\Default\\Cache'

Is this intended?

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Question:

Just out of curiosity, I wanted to see if browser_cache_path:%LocalAppData%\fanficdownloader \cache\QtWebEngine\Default\Cache (which is it's a valid Windows path!) would work. Unfortunately I got

...

Is this intended?

Intended is a strong word for it. The INI file parser we use uses % as a variable designator. It's mentioned several places in defaults.ini and as an aside in this wiki page.

You can try doing %%LocalAppData%%, but I don't know if it will work.

Nor do I plan to recommend it even if it does work. Introducing another level of abstraction is nice in theory, but I don't want to have to explain it.

[ackomb]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

FanFictionDownloader, for those who don't know, is a standalone tool for downloading fanfics that does better with the ffnet blocking issue due to incorporating a QtWebEngine browser engine that it uses for doing downloads.

Which, on Windows10 at least, has a browser cache that FFF can read. For me it's at:

C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\fanficdownloader\cache \QtWebEngine\Default\Cache

Another happy reader

[DandalfTheWhite]

I just wanted to chime in and say the fanfictiondownloader cache method is working well for me too.

I do have a question, if anyone has experience here. How big is the cache? How long does it last? I have a list of a few fic updates (maybe 20ish) that I have been saving from ffn until I could import them to my Calibre library. Is the best workflow doing it one at a time in the downloader, and then go to Calibre or can I do multiple fics in the downloader and they will work in Calibre with the plugin doing multiple links at once? Thanks!

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by DandalfTheWhite

I do have a question, if anyone has experience here. ...

Since we only just figured it out, I don't know how much experience there is.

• How big is the cache? - Directly proportional to how much you download, but probably not very large by today's standards.
• How long does it last? - Probably until you delete it, I would guess. Note that by default FFF will only use cache entries up to 4 hours old. You can change that with browser_cache_age_limit.
• can I do multiple fics in the downloader - Probably, assuming browser_cache_age_limit is set high enough (or to -1 for forever). FFDL has a list download option as does FFF. I haven't tried it, though.

I don't know about a specific work flow, I'm not actually using FFDL for this myself.

[estherflails]

Hello! I had a pretty specific question.

I edited the adapter_archiveofourownorg.py file so I could get my subscription data for stories. Here's what I added:

self.story.setMetadata('subscribed',
   None != metasoup.find('form',id=re.compile(r'^edit_subscription_')))

It works really well and I was going to do a pull request, but I ran into some possible issues.

In personal.ini, I can't use it with commands like include_subject_tags, add_to_replace_metadata, include_in_, even though eg. 'bookmarked' or 'restricted' work perfectly. What am I missing here?

[MonicaOP]

Thanks for answering me!! I just found so many thing there that I had to give me a chance!! Be well, Mónica

FAQ: Please add site XYZ to FanFicFare?[/QUOTE]

[ownedbycats]

Note that there's now a helpful tutorial (including pictures) for using FFDL's cache:

https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFa...nFicFare-Batch

[estherflails]

Originally Posted by estherflails

Hello! I had a pretty specific question.

I edited the adapter_archiveofourownorg.py file so I could get my subscription data for stories...

Yeah, about this... nevermind. Turns out I'm just a fool who didn't save the file properly. How embarrassing. 😅 It works just fine now. 😁

By the way, thanks for figuring out the FFDL method. I've been neglecting my FF.net library because it seemed too complicated to update it, but this feels pretty doable. 🤗

[Mandabar]

Hmm. I noticed after Fanfiction.net started blocking download it started working again around March/April (I think?). Regardless I've been able to update using FFF on fanfiction.net until I would say today/yesterday. My last successful update was on Sunday the 12th for a few fics. Seems the cloudflare errors have returned.

Though from some casual browsing it seems it was still blocked for everyone else and never got better and I just now joined the party? Just a general FYI I suppose