[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Is there any practical limit to the number of story-url sections in personal.ini? I've found myself using them often (all sorts of various reasons).

See: https://docs.python.org/3/library/configparser.html

Googling python configparser sections limit doesn't come up with any complaints, so I presume not.

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Bug report?

[https://archiveofourown.org/works/44088169]
always_reload_first_chapter:true
add_category_when_multi_category:false
never_make_cover:true

When downloading as new book or overwriting, I get a "Cannot insert None into a tag" unless I comment always_reload_first_chapter. It doesn't happen when updating.

EDIT: Another story by the same author instead gets a 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'find' error when I attempt to overwrite with always_reload.

always_reload_first_chapter:true was only really tested with base_xenforoforum sites where it used to be common for authors to include a manually combined TOC/index.

I do see the first error. It's a conflict between the AO3 only use_view_full_work option, AO3 chapter/story summary/notes processing and always_reload_first_chapter.

To make always_reload_first_chapter work reliably, we have to sacrifice some of the performance benefits of use_view_full_work and re-process the HTML every chapter because I'm not rewriting all the AO3 chapter processing.

I don't see the second error. Need at least a code line number.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2023-02-19
- AO3: Re-soup full_work on every chapter to avoid problems with soup changes. Found with always_reload_first_chapter:true

[ownedbycats]

Thanks

[Amalthia]

Hello,

I have a bit of a puzzle.

I'm trying to exclude specific freeformtags from my genre column. The warnings are excluded, but not the genre information.

Here is the code I'm using in my personal.ini.

exclude_metadata_pre:
 warnings==Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
 warnings==No Archive Warnings Apply
 warnings==Graphic Depictions Of Violence
 warnings==Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
 warnings==Additional Warnings In Author's Note
 genre==Other Additional Tags to Be Added
 genre==Additional Warnings in Author's Note

custom_columns_settings:
 comments=>#reviewcount,r
 collections=>#fandomchallenges,r
 kudos=>#kudoscount,r
 ao3categories=>#categories,r
 chapterslashtotal=>#chapterslashtotal,r
 restricted=>#restricted,r
 genre=>#newgenre,r

I've tried this for the genre:

 freeformtags==Other Additional Tags to Be Added
 freeformtags==Additional Warnings in Author's Note

and I tried this:

 freeformtags,genre==Other Additional Tags to Be Added
 freeformtags,genre==Additional Warnings in Author's Note

None of my attempts have worked to excluded the specified metadata.

Here is a story link that includes the "Additional Warnings in Author's Note" in the author's additional tag metadata from AO3.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30875318

I'd appreciate any and all help in adjusting my settings to exclude these tags from the metadata.

Thanks,
Amalthia

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Amalthia

I have a bit of a puzzle.
...

exclude_metadata_pre:
 # ...
 genre==Other Additional Tags to Be Added
 genre==Additional Warnings in Author's Note

"Additional Warnings in Author's Note" doesn't work because the author actually used "Additional Warnings In Author's Note". Note the i vs I.

"Other Additional Tags to Be Added" is excluded fine for me as is.

[ownedbycats]

If they use regexes, you can proably use Additional Warnings (I|i)n Author's Note

[Amalthia]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

"Additional Warnings in Author's Note" doesn't work because the author actually used "Additional Warnings In Author's Note". Note the i vs I.

"Other Additional Tags to Be Added" is excluded fine for me as is.

Good catch! Thanks for helping.

[Amalthia]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

If they use regexes, you can proably use Additional Warnings (I|i)n Author's Note

Hi,

Is there a regex that can exclude any genre that starts with "Additional?"

Thanks,
Amalthia

[ownedbycats]

Try ^Additional .*

Unless the question mark being inside the quote wasn't a mistake, then use ^Additional\? .*

[Amalthia]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Try ^Additional .*

Thanks for the fast response! I tried it out and sadly the regex didn't work.

I also tried ^Additional.*

May have to experiment...

Thanks,
Amalthia

p.s. I meant to only have "Additional" no question mark.

[Amalthia]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Try ^Additional .*

Unless the question mark being inside the quote wasn't a mistake, then use ^Additional\? .*

I think I figured it out.

Here is what worked:

freeformtags,genre=~Additional.*

I'm not sure what =~ means but I know != excluded all genre's except the ones that started with Additional.

I'm going through the calibre regex reference guide to see if there is a list of these selectors.

Amalthia

[ownedbycats]

Oops, I forgot to mention the tilde Tilde means regex match, == is exact match.

[Amalthia]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Oops, I forgot to mention the tilde Tilde means regex match, == is exact match.

It's all good, I was able to figure it out.

I'm going through the "tag browser" using the "category editor" to see what else I can exclude and I kind of want to shake my head at what people are adding to tags in AO3, so much of it is nonsense, with only one person using that tag. I had over 60k tags in genre alone. I'm mass deleting everything with 1 tag, especially anything that starts with an author's "I" "will" "also" "I'm" and other awful tags that add nothing to the reader's understanding of what is in the fic.

I'm crossing my fingers that someday AO3 will limit the amount of freeformtags an author can use. I think no more than 10 will really cut down on the amount of useless metadata.

Thanks for your help!
Amalthia

[ownedbycats]

They actually did! Limit of 75 tags now, after that incident with the story using literally thousands of tags and outright crashing browsers. But older works with more than that will keep the tags (until the author tries to update, then it'll make them delete some).

[Amalthia]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

They actually did! Limit of 75 tags now, after that incident with the story using literally thousands of tags and outright crashing browsers. But older works with more than that will keep the tags (until the author tries to update, then it'll make them delete some).

I guess 75 tags is a start, I bet some author's feel like that still isn't enough. I can assure them after looking at all these nonsense tags, it's more than enough.

I somehow missed seeing the "sexy times" fic while browse AO3 when this happened. I think this is what happens when you find fic through bookmarks or rec lists.