[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[DisturbedDragon]

Thank you for the prompt response

[ownedbycats]

Quick question: How would I remove a specific piece of text from a fanfic description? (e.g. "This is a complete fic. Posting new chapters on Sundays!")

[JimmXinu]

replace_metadata on description.

Keeping in mind that a) by default keep_summary_html:true, so you may need to deal with HTML; and b) Calibre rewrites the HTML of it's 'Comments' field, so you can't depend on that to see the exact HTML. Do Edit book on the epub instead.

Yes, there is an unfortunate mishmash of naming convention here.

[ownedbycats]

I have a fanfic I'd like to download.

Problem: it was deleted from FanFiction.net.

However, all of the chapters are available on the Wayback Machine.

Are there any options here, such as jury-rigging the ffnet adapter to accept a wayback'd copy? Problems I can see with that approach:

- The Wayback Machine header. This can be stripped by appending id_ to the timestamp (see here).
- The timestamp section of the URL varies.
- It was captured about a decade ago, though I'm not sure how much ffnet (and the adapter's) changed since then.

Non-FFF solutions I'm open to, though hopefully something better than "saving and compiling the ebook manually."

EDIT: Actually -- is there an option to have FFF generate an epub structure for 15 chapters, but leave the content blank? That would make 'saving and compiling the ebook manually' a bit easier.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

However, all of the chapters are available on the Wayback Machine.

Are there any options here, such as jury-rigging the ffnet adapter to accept a wayback'd copy? Problems I can see with that approach:

This has been raised before.

Yes, it is theoretically possible; and if you can make it work, good for you. But I don't have any interest in supporting downloading from Wayback Machine.

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

EDIT: Actually -- is there an option to have FFF generate an epub structure for 15 chapters, but leave the content blank? That would make 'saving and compiling the ebook manually' a bit easier.

No, FFF doesn't have such a feature; it's not really in scope. But if you're already poking at code, you can pretty trivially change adapter_test1 to do that for you.

Actually, you may want to look at the adapter_test1 teststory settings and modify that rather than the site adapter.

[ownedbycats]

yeah, actually supporting wayback would be problematic -- not all chapters get archived, or old versions of the site.

What I've decided to do is make a copy of a different 15-chapter fanfic and swap out the info and content. This will preserve the FFF structure as well as possible.

So a question: In the ebook file itself, aside from the title page, file0000.xhtmls, and content.opf, are there any other places where there are traces of the 'donor' fic that I need to replace?

EDIT: Mostly out of curiosity, what's the difference between "chaptertitle" and "chapterorigtitle"?

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

So a question: In the ebook file itself, aside from the title page, file0000.xhtmls, and content.opf, are there any other places where there are traces of the 'donor' fic that I need to replace?

Nothing comes to mind.

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

EDIT: Mostly out of curiosity, what's the difference between "chaptertitle" and "chapterorigtitle"?

Used for mark_new_chapters so removing new chapter marks doesn't require hitting the site.

[ownedbycats]

There was also the table of contents, but aside from that I think I got it all.

[midnightmane]

What kind of custom column do I need to make in order to add kudos and Hits? I have tried intger.

[JimmXinu]

Integer column type works, I just tested it. You have to use the custom_columns_settings setting in personal.ini because it's a site-specific metadata entry.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2022-04-20
- Xenforo2 status Ongoing==In-Progress
- Update translations.

[sandmanwake]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

I have a fanfic I'd like to download.

Problem: it was deleted from FanFiction.net.

I don't know if you know about this site: https://ff2ebook.com/index.php

If someone else used the site to download the story you were interested in downloading, you might be able to get an archived epub of it via the Archive link at the top of the page.

[ownedbycats]

Thanks, that will be helpful.

[midnightmane]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Integer column type works, I just tested it. You have to use the custom_columns_settings setting in personal.ini because it's a site-specific metadata entry.

Do you have an example I checked the default.ini but I couldn't find any examples

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by midnightmane

Do you have an example I checked the the v i n i but I couldn't find any examples in the default.ini

Assuming you named the custom column 'mycolumn', it becomes '#mycolumn' in use (that's a Calibre thing), put a custom_columns_settings under [archiveofourown.org] in personal.ini:

[archiveofourown.org]
add_to_custom_columns_settings:
 kudos=>#mycolumn

(Change 'mycolumn' to your column name.)

The add_to_ is really only needed if you have other custom_columns_settings under [defaults], but it's a good habit.

MR's built-in search doesn't like searching for custom_columns_settings, says it's too long. But a google search for: site:mobileread.com custom_columns_settings will find previous discussions.