[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

I did not know that AO3 would let you hide some metadata when logged in. Thanks for letting us know about it.

Proposed FAQ entry, though the wording probably isn't best:

## Why are additional tags missing from some AO3 stories?

If a story is restricted to registered users and the account used to login has 'Hide Additional Tags' enabled, the AO3 adapter cannot get them. Go to your AO3 preferences and disable this.

[Amalthia]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

I did not know that AO3 would let you hide some metadata when logged in. Thanks for letting us know about it.

I had no idea this would have an impact either! It was a long shot test and it worked.

I created a new AO3 account and with my test Calibre downloaded a restricted story and all the additional tags downloaded. I mean I did two tests, one with my normal account and another with my new account.

Amalthia

[JimmXinu]

It's hardly what I'd call 'Frequent'. And the same thing can happen with warnings.

I believe we have other sites that can configurably show or conceal certain metadata, I just didn't know AO3 could.

[ownedbycats]

yeah, i thought that too. Maybe in the comments of AO3's include_in_genres?

EDIT: I opened a pull request

[JimmXinu]

Honestly, I think having it documented here in the thread is sufficient.

It only matters if you have a user who both hides those fields and wants to record them.

[ownedbycats]

mostly out of curiosity, how many adapters has FFF removed because the sites died?

[JimmXinu]

Supported Sites Wiki page, Sites removed section

[ownedbycats]

Interesting. Several of them say 'no longer efiction' - is there a definition for efiction?

Googling 'efiction' gets a specific archiving software, but I'm not sure if it's that specifically or a more generic term for the types of sites FFF works with.

(Confusing: When I was checking Wikipedia, one of the suggested results was 'urination' )

[JimmXinu]

As you've already found, eFiction is (was?) a popular fanfiction hosting software.

Speaking off the cuff, I believe that support and interest for eFiction has waned in recent years, due in large part to the rise of AO3 as a more inclusive alternate to ffnet.

In 2014 John Doe contributed code for the base_efiction_adapter that can be used with many (most?) eFiction sites with much less custom coding than before.

FFF supports 22 sites using base_efiction and many more with site specific code. Any site with story URLs containing viewstory.php is +90% eFiction.

I believe the change history of John Doe's contribs have been buried between the switch from code.google to github and later dir restructuring, but they should be acknowledged.

[agumon1123]

When downloading an ao3 fic i get get error string index out of range and it doesnt download. How do i fix this?

The fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/21427696

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2023-06-12
- Allow for href='' in fix_relative_text_links processing.

Originally Posted by agumon1123

When downloading an ao3 fic i get get error string index out of range and it doesnt download. How do i fix this?

The fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/21427696

That particular story, in chapter 22 contains a couple <a> tags that have href="":

<a href="">https://www.scottish-history.com/origins3.shtml</a><br/>
<a href="">https://www.livescience.com/who-were-picts-scotland</a></p>

The fix_relative_text_links code wasn't expecting that particular mistake.

[neosyberalex]

I was looking through supported sites and was surprised to not see

"furaffinity.net"

Was it rejected for some reason?

[ownedbycats]

There's a lot of adapters to maintain, so Jim isn't working on new ones. Additionally, not all sites are conductive to being downloaded by FFF (e.g. livejournal it's impossible to figure out which posts are the stories, and various other sites are just static pages).

[JimmXinu]

I don't think furaffinity.net was ever requested. Looking it, it's not a good candidate. The first 3 stories I clicked on were actually posted in pdf, docx and text.

Please see the FAQ: Please add site XYZ to FanFicFare?

[ownedbycats]

Currently, fff_failed gets marked for 'already have x chapters' and 'site is not newer' errors. I'd like to have error'd books get marked but skip the no-updates. Would it be much work to have a 'for all errors' option like the one for the error column?

Additionally: AO3 stories put into a hidden collection get a 'NoneType' error. It might make sense to have a unique error for this. Example link (login required).