[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[Kite013]

I keep getting the error "Directory does not contain a known browser cache type"
I have as far as I know cleared the cache and tried again so I don't know what is going on.

[JimmXinu]

If you are using Chrome, they changed where the cache lives back in January. See post.

Otherwise, see the browser cache feature wiki page and check your configured browser cache path. Without more to go on, that's all I can suggest.

[Kite013]

Thankyou for the links. Turns out it was that when I copied the address of the folder the cache was in that it didn't contain the last part which was the sub folder cache_data that it was in.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2022-03-02
- royalroad: Recognize and normalize various chapter url formats (#813), thanks sidney

Presumably in response to:

Originally Posted by bugstomper

I'm reading a book on RoyalRoad that has links to other chapters in the book. It's a choose your own path type adventure. Is there anything in FanFicfare that would support getting those links converted to the proper internal links in the resulting epub? If it is not already a feature, do you think that existing functions for matching a URL to a story URL pattern and canonicalizing a URL and whatever is done to produce a ToC could be the basis for coding an option to convert such links if I wanted to pursue coding this feature myself?

[Patricia1066]

Hope you can give me a pointer. Calibre is installed on Debian bullseye on Chromebook chromeOS v99.
I followed the wiki on configuring the plugin by adding browser cache to the personal.ini file.
I use Vivaldi browser which has its folder .cache/vivaldi/Default/Cache.

[defaults]
browser_cache_path:/home/patricia/.cache/vivaldi/Default/Cache
[www.fanfiction.net]
username:XXXXXXXX
password:XXXXXXXX
use_browser_cache:true

I am unsure how deep to drill down - is it enough to point to the vivaldi folder, or Default, or Cache?

THis is the error log

calibre 5.37 embedded-python: True is64bit: True
Linux-5.10.92-14532-g179c52887ab5-x86_64-with-glibc2.2.5 Linux ('64bit', 'ELF')
('Linux', '5.10.92-14532-g179c52887ab5', '#1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Feb 20 18:46:52 PST 2022')
Python 3.8.5
Interface language: None
Successfully initialized third party plugins: DeDRM (7, 2, 1) && FanFicFare (4, 10, 0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
fanficfare.browsercache.basebrowsercache.BrowserCa cheException: Directory does not contain a known browser cache type: '/home/patricia/.cache/vivaldi/Default/Cache'

[JimmXinu]

I suspect you are having the same problem as this. Vivaldi is based on Chrome's engine.

[ownedbycats]

Vivaldi user, can confirm that its now using Cache_Data.

[Patricia1066]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

I suspect you are having the same problem as this. Vivaldi is based on Chrome's engine.

Yes this works. Thanks for maintaining this essential plugin!

[steltek]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Vivaldi user, can confirm that its now using Cache_Data.

The same thing applies to Microsoft Edge as well. Brave hasn't updated to the new cache location (at least as of now) but I'm sure it will eventually change as well.

[MarjaE]

For the past several weeks, Fanficfare gives me a 503 error on Fictionmania.

[JimmXinu]

Worked for me just now.

A 503 error could suggest transient problems that you are unlucky with, issues with your network or region being served by regional servers that are having problems, or that your network or computer is being more stringently screened or blocked.

I don't know of anything I could do to help you.

[bugstomper]

I have another possible enhancement to the royalroad adapter to ask about.
Royalroad can have Author's Notes before and/or after the content of a chapter. The adapter doesn't include them in the content, which is usually the right thing. However in the Choose Your Adventure type story I am reading that has those relative links, the author is now sometimes using Author's Notes to provide the links, separating it from the text. If I wanted to add the ability to optionally include Author's Notes with a RoyalRoad story, something that would be specified for an individual story and not for everything on royalroad:

1. Is there provision in the plugin for me to set some option or tag in a story's metadata that can be read in the adapter to enable the option?

2. If not, does personal.ini allow me to have a section to customize just for one story instead of for the entire royalroad.com?

3. Are there any existing options or methods in the code that I should be aware of if I wanted to add such an option to the adapter?

4. What if I wanted to not only specify options to include pre-chapter author's notes and post-chapter author's notes, but also be able to somehow specify the formatting or css for them, are there existing methods I should make use of?

5. Is this useful enough to make part of the adapter if I have a patch to submit, or would it remain my personal customization?

In case you want to see the story yourself it is
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/51...er-interactive

Thanks,

bugstomper, aka sidney on GitHub

[ownedbycats]

for 2, there is -- I've used [https://www.yourstoryurl.com/whatever] sections at the bottom to tweak things for individual fanfics.

[ownedbycats]

Also, a bit of a thought:

Sometimes authors unexpectedly delete stories (or I forgot to subscribe), so once in a while I like to go through and check updates on fics that haven't updated for a while to see whether they return an error (or have unexpected updates from forgetting to subscrib), and if they do I can then move them to the Abandoned status.

However, I've stopped doing this. Running "update if new chapters" on a bunch of stories I am worried might contribute to the Cloudflare issue, and I'd rather not update metadata on everything.

Would it be much effort to have an additional option somewhere in FFF to check only the first chapter of a fic to see if it's still valid and update the error column if not? I'm not sure how much of a corner case this is.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by bugstomper

1. Is there provision in the plugin for me to set some option or tag in a story's metadata that can be read in the adapter to enable the option?

Not intentionally. You might be able to do something with the 'Pass Calibre Columns into FanFicFare on Update/Overwrite' feature, but I don't think it's necessary because:

Originally Posted by bugstomper

2. If not, does personal.ini allow me to have a section to customize just for one story instead of for the entire royalroad.com?

Yes! You can put the story URL as a section name in personal.ini. So in this case:

[https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/51335]
#settings for this story only.

(If an adapter implements get_section_url(), you can also use title-containing story URLs. royalroad doesn't have that yet. grep existing adapters for examples.)

Originally Posted by bugstomper

3. Are there any existing options or methods in the code that I should be aware of if I wanted to add such an option to the adapter?

I believe the exclude_notes feature of adapter_archiveofourownorg is the most complex/complete equivalent. Note that adapter_archiveofourownorg's use_view_full_work feature may make it look more complicated than it needs to be.

Originally Posted by bugstomper

4. What if I wanted to not only specify options to include pre-chapter author's notes and post-chapter author's notes, but also be able to somehow specify the formatting or css for them, are there existing methods I should make use of?

Add class attribs to the tags in question. Again, see exclude_notes in adapter_archiveofourownorg for an example. I'd suggest the same class names where they match, add new ones if needed. Then output_css settings for the actual CSS.

Originally Posted by bugstomper

5. Is this useful enough to make part of the adapter if I have a patch to submit, or would it remain my personal customization?

Absolutely!

The AO3 adapter uses an exclude list because they were all included originally and the feature was added to suppress them.

If it makes more sense for royalroad, feel free to have an include list instead of exclude.

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Would it be much effort to have an additional option somewhere in FFF to check only the first chapter of a fic to see if it's still valid and update the error column if not? I'm not sure how much of a corner case this is.

IMO, it would be too much effort for very little gain. And that such a feature would likely encourage such checks more often.