[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by MCBastos

Anybody else having trouble downloading from TTH? It used to be really smooth, I have been pulling stuff from there with FFF for years (in fact, since before it was *called* FanFicFare) but for some reason, I haven't been able to get either new chapters for a story already being followed, nor entirely new stories.

HTTPSConnectionPool(host='www.tthfanfic.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /Story-33597 (Caused by ProtocolError('Connection aborted.', PermissionError(13, 'Permission denied')))
https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33597

Should I change anything in my setup? I tried removing the TTH username/password from my FFF ini file to check if was related to the login process (TTH allows anonymous downloads) but the problem persists.

I just downloaded an update from TtH, and downloaded that story successfully.

It's not common, but as I recall, TtH will block you for a while sometimes, when you've been downloading a lot.

[DemiGraceling]

My gmail account has stopped working with fff. Since I am going to be making a new email account anyway is there an account that works well with fff or just anything that is not gmail.

[bigwoof]

Originally Posted by DemiGraceling

My gmail account has stopped working with fff. Since I am going to be making a new email account anyway is there an account that works well with fff or just anything that is not gmail.

Hi,

for gmail, go back a few pages in this forum and you'll find the answer. you need to enable 2-factor and turn on username / password support.

[JimmXinu]

Specifically, the discussion about recent Gmail changes affecting FFF started here.

My most detailed response is here with an important clarification here.

And for completeness, here is Google's page about "app password".

[DemiGraceling]

Thank You For the help with Gmail. I got it working again.

[ownedbycats]

Can FFF skip downloading specific chapters of a story?

[Zrascak]

I just tried to do a batch update from Sufficient Velocity, Space Battles and Questionable Questing all at once but got a whole sea of errors and no updates, anybody else have this issue or did I just overload it?

When doing smaller batches it seems to work fine.

If I have missed something in the thread I apologize, I do not seem to agree with the search function here.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Can FFF skip downloading specific chapters of a story?

## You can exclude chapters from a story by listing their chapter URLs
## in ignore_chapter_url_list.  Chapter URLs will be normalized before
## being used, so you can use either longer or normalized chapter
## URLs.
## NOTE: This will cause numWords(word count) to be off for most sites.
## This setting should be used in a specific story's section.
## Example:
#[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/lengthy-thread-name.100849/]
#ignore_chapter_url_list:
# https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/10157294/
# https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/10157297/
# https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/10157299/
# https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/lengthy-thread-name.100849/#post-10157400

Originally Posted by Zrascak

I just tried to do a batch update from Sufficient Velocity, Space Battles and Questionable Questing all at once but got a whole sea of errors and no updates, anybody else have this issue or did I just overload it?

When doing smaller batches it seems to work fine.

If I have missed something in the thread I apologize, I do not seem to agree with the search function here.

I'm not seeing any issues. If it only happens when doing many updates, that's probably your problem.

MR thread search isn't the best. You can Google limited to a site like so:

site:mobileread.com "ignore_chapter_url_list"

[dysphere]

I get a really weird glitch for when I download https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/28...loomed-nowhere and when I have FanficFare to update EPUB if new chapters it loses like .1 MB of data from the ebook, yet if I choose to overwrite the ebook, the ebook keeps the data.

[JimmXinu]

I experimentally downloaded the first 90 chapters, then updated a couple times, first to 91 then to 94 comparing between each--no problems found.

Is it just a change in size, or can you identify text that was lost?

An epub is a zip file. Zip file size depends on how compressed it is, which depends on the contents. Pretty sure I've seen a zip file get smaller before when containing more text if the text happens to be more compressible.

Calibre's Edit book has a "Compare to another book" feature (under Files) that's very useful. If you open an epub in Edit book before updating with FFF, you can then Compare to the updated file on disk (find the epub on disk from the Calibre library with the 'o' hotkey) to see exactly what's changed.

Or if you have the before and after epubs you could post somewhere for me to examine, it may help.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2022-06-17
- adapter_themasquenet: Switch to https, closes #854

[sios00]

How do I set Fanficfare to auto set a column value for all downloads? My Calibre library has a custom column called "Type" with tag #type, which is a dropdown list of values "Fiction", "Fanfiction", and "Non-fiction". How do I get Fanficfare to set the #type column value of all downloads and updates as "Fanfiction"? Currently, I am doing it manually whenever I download a new story. Thanks for any assistance!

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by sios00

How do I set Fanficfare to auto set a column value for all downloads? My Calibre library has a custom column called "Type" with tag #type, which is a dropdown list of values "Fiction", "Fanfiction", and "Non-fiction". How do I get Fanficfare to set the #type column value of all downloads and updates as "Fanfiction"? Currently, I am doing it manually whenever I download a new story. Thanks for any assistance!

Turn on the check box towards the bottom of the Custom Columns settings Tab to allow custom_columns_settings, then set it in personal.ini:

[defaults]
# ...
custom_columns_settings:
 "Fanfiction"=>#type

You may have to match the allowed value perfectly, IE Fanfiction vs FanFiction?

It's even one of the examples in (plugin) defaults.ini:

## (Plugin Only) - You can also populate calibre custom columns with
## the site specific metadata using custom_columns_settings (but only
## if 'Allow custom_columns_settings from personal.ini' is checked in
## the plugin GUI config.)  There are three parts, the entry name,
## then the label of the calibre custom column, then (optionally) a
## 'mode'.  'r' to Replace any existing values, 'a' to Add to existing
## value (use with tag-like columns), and 'n' for setting on New books
## only.  (Default is 'r'.)

## Literal strings can be set into custom columns using double quotes.
## Each metadata=>column mapping must be on a separate line and each
## needs to have one space at the start of each line.

## 'r_anthaver' and 'n_anthaver' can be used to indicate the same as
## 'r' and 'n' for normal downloads, but to average the metadata for
## the differents story in an anthology before setting in integer and
## float type custom columns.  This can be useful for a averrating
## column, for example.  Default is to sum the values of all stories,
## and numChapters and numWords are always summed.

#custom_columns_settings:
# cliches=>#acolumn
# themes=>#bcolumn,a
# timeline=>#ccolumn,n
# "FanFiction"=>#collection
# averrating=>#averrating,r_anthaver

[sios00]

Thanks! It didn't work for me though, is it because I have "custom_columns_settings" twice? Once under [defaults] and another under [archiveofourown.org]?

For reference, here is my personal.ini file.

Spoiler:

[defaults]
custom_columns_settings:
 "Fanfiction"=>#type,r


<.......unrelated>


## This section will override anything in the system defaults or other
## sections here.
[overrides]
## default varies by site.  Set true here to force all sites to
## collect series.
#collect_series: true

[fanfiction.net]
#use_nsapa_proxy:true
#use_cloudscraper:false
use_flaresolverr_proxy:true

[archiveofourown.org]
extra_valid_entries:fandoms, freeformtags, freefromtags,  ao3categories, comments, chapterslashtotal, chapterstotal, kudos,  hits, bookmarks, collections, byline, bookmarked, bookmarktags,  bookmarksummary, bookmarkprivate, bookmarkrec, restricted, series00,  series01, series02, series03, series04, series05, series06, series07,  series08, series09, series00Url, series01Url, series02Url, series03Url,   series04Url, series05Url, series06Url, series07Url, series08Url, series90Url,  series00HTML, series01HTML, series02HTML, series03HTML, series04HTML,  series05HTML, series06HTML, series07HTML, series08HTML, series09HTML 
fandoms_label:Fandoms 
freeformtags_label:Freeform Tags 
freefromtags_label:Freeform Tags 
ao3categories_label:AO3 Categories 
comments_label:Comments 
chapterslashtotal_label:Chapters/Total Chapters 
chapterstotal_label:Total Chapters 
kudos_label:Kudos 
hits_label:Hits 
collections_label:Collections 
## Count of bookmarks on story by all users 
bookmarks_label:Bookmarks 
## Tags & Summary from *your* bookmark on the story.  Only collected 
## if always_login:true 
bookmarked_label:I Bookmarked Story 
bookmarktags_label:My Bookmark Tags 
bookmarksummary_label:My Bookmark Summary 
bookmarkprivate_label:My Bookmark Private 
bookmarkrec_label:My Bookmark Rec 
restricted_label:Restricted to Registered Users 
series00HTML_label:Series 
series01HTML_label:Additional Series 
series02HTML_label:Additional Series 
series03HTML_label:Additional Series 
series04HTML_label:Additional Series 
series05HTML_label:Additional Series 
series06HTML_label:Additional Series 
series07HTML_label:Additional Series 
series08HTML_label:Additional Series 
series09HTML_label:Additional Series  
make_linkhtml_entries:series00,series01,series02,series03,series04,series05,series06,series07,series08,series09  
titlepage_entries: seriesHTML,category,genre,language,characters,ships,status,datePublished,dateUpdated,dateCreated,rating,warnings,numChapters,numWords,site,description 
extra_titlepage_entries: fandoms,freeformtags,ao3categories,comments,chapterslashtotal,chapterstotal,kudos,hits,bookmarks,bookmarked,bookmarktags,bookmarksummary,series01HTML,series02HTML,series03HTML,series04HTML,series05HTML,series06HTML,series07HTML,series08HTML,series09HTML,byline  
custom_columns_settings: 

 series=>#multiseries,a
 series00=>#multiseries,a
 series01=>#multiseries,a
 series02=>#multiseries,a
 series03=>#multiseries,a
 series04=>#multiseries,a
 series05=>#multiseries,a
 series06=>#multiseries,a
 series07=>#multiseries,a
 series08=>#multiseries,a
 series09=>#multiseries,a


include_logpage: true

#include_logpage: smart

logpage_at_end: true


logpage_entries: dateCreated,<br />,datePublished,<br />,dateUpdated,<br />,numChapters,numWords,status,<br />,series,<br />,title,<br />,author,<br />,description,<br />,category,<br />,genre,<br />,rating,<br />,warnings,<br />,fandoms,<br />,freeformtags,<br />,freefromtags,
 ao3categories,<br />,comments,<br />,chapterstotal,<br />,kudos,
 hits,<br />,bookmarks,<br />,collections,<br />,byline,<br />,bookmarked,<br />,bookmarktags,
 bookmarksummary,<br />,bookmarkprivate,<br />,bookmarkrec,<br />,restricted,<br />,series00,
 series01,<br />,series02,<br />,series03

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by sios00

Thanks! It didn't work for me though, is it because I have "custom_columns_settings" twice? Once under [defaults] and another under [archiveofourown.org]?

Yes. You'll want to use add_to_custom_columns_settings. See the wiki for all the details.