[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[ownedbycats]

PSA: If you use Outlook.com, check your ffnet account settings. I had to re-enable email notifications.

[culytera]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Yeah, can't do that right now.

I might be able to leverage something in, but there's already several different chapter title patterns running around. May look at it next week if I remember.

I realized my patterns will look off on works that aren't multichaptered so I might not do this. There doesn't seem to be a way to show ${date} as a chapter_entry to avoid empty text between HTML code, like how titlepage_entries won't show up if empty.

Plus with a chapter_title_x_pattern like ${number}. ${title} [${date}], the entry in the embedded TOC will have chapter_name [] if the work doesn't have the date_chapter metadata.

I thought I'd try ${' [' + date + ']'}, but of course this is a different language so that didn't work.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by culytera

Plus with a chapter_title_x_pattern like ${number}. ${title} [${date}], the entry in the embedded TOC will have chapter_name [] if the work doesn't have the date_chapter metadata.

This part, at least, can be addressed by only setting the pattern for sites that support date.

[culytera]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

This part, at least, can be addressed by only setting the pattern for sites that support date.

I already had my chapter title patterns set only in [archiveofourown.org] but my mistake was putting ${date} in chapter_title_def_pattern as well. I decided not to use chapter_start anymore cause that would just make things more complicated.

Attached is the result with these patterns:

Spoiler:

## The basic pattern used when not using add_chapter_numbers or
## mark_new_chapters
chapter_title_def_pattern:${title}

## Pattern used with add_chapter_numbers, but not mark_new_chapters
chapter_title_add_pattern:${number}. ${title} ◈ ${date}

## Pattern used with mark_new_chapters, but not add_chapter_numbers
## (new) is just text and can be changed.
chapter_title_new_pattern:${title} ◈ ${date} | (NEW)

## Pattern used with add_chapter_numbers and mark_new_chapters
## (new) is just text and can be changed.
chapter_title_addnew_pattern:${number}. ${title} ◈ ${date} | (NEW)

In overrides I put:

strip_chapter_numbers:true
add_chapter_numbers:true

mark_new_chapters:latestonly

[JimmXinu]

New Version Released

Version 4.26.0 - 2023-08-17
- adapter_royalroadcom: user found a story with no chapters
- base_efiction: .string -> stripHTML for nested tags Closes #984
- Fix fanfiktionde status parsing #980 - thanks, burny2!
- AO3: Make subscribed, markedforlater True/False to match bookmarked/bookmarkprivate/bookmarkrec
- Add title replace_metadata(commented) for literotica Ch/Pt titles
- AO3: Add subscribed, markedforlater
- Filter cookies for flaresolverr
- Add _LIST option to include_subject_tags(/extra_subject_tags), refactor
- AO3 fix for protected email addr in chapter name breaking chapter datetime
- Fix for #979, AO3 Get URLs from Page
- adapter_storiesofardacom: Fix for detecting adult question on indiv chapters.
- New Site: sunnydaleafterdark.com, thanks inklesspen!
- Add anthology_merge_keepsingletocs option, requires new EpubMerge.
- Apply mark_new_chapters to new story chapters in Anthologies. [#977](https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFare/issues/977)
- Allow mark_new_chapters when 1 chapter in case it changes.
- Increase sleep times between cache checks using open_pages_in_browser.
- adapter_literotica: 'Fix' clean_chapter_titles for titles ending with Pt or Ch
- Fix for ficbook.net date change. Closes #973

[w4tchdoge]

Hi there. I'm not sure whether this is a problem on my end or not but after the most recent update (v4.26.0), whenever I use the "Get Story URLs from Email" feature to update works in my library extratags I have defined in my personal.ini do not seem to be added. I have also checked that manually updating a work using the "Update EPUB if New Chapters" and "Overwrite Always" Action modes and they also have the same issue.
The missing extratags are added back when I use the "Update Calibre Metadata from Website" Action mode on a work that has been updated and is missing the extratags that I have set in my personal.ini.

My current extratags/include_subject_tags setup is as follows. I have used AO3 as an example but similar extratags are in the sections for the other sites I use.

[defaults]

extratags:


[archiveofourown.org]

add_to_extratags:,From AO3

include_subject_tags:prefix_ships,prefix_fandom,prefix_category,prefix_rating,prefix_status,prefix_wordcount,prefix_freeform_tags,extratags


[overrides]

add_to_extratags:,Web Fiction

I would appreciate any assistance in how I would go about getting back to the previous behaviour.

[JimmXinu]

Right this minute? You could manually download and install the previous release.

There does appear to be something wrong here, but I'm not sure what yet. extratags doesn't appear to populate only in include_subject_tags when called by Calibre.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2023-08-17
- Fix for extratags not being picked up by include_in_subjects

Given this is the entire point of extratags, I may do a point release after confirmation the fix works. It's been broken in test versions since Jul 23.

[w4tchdoge]

I've just installed the latest test version from the post on this thread and the problem seems to be fixed.

I've tested it with the following action modes:
1. Adding completely new works
2. Get Story URLs from Email
3. Update EPUB if New Chapters
4. Overwrite Always
And the set extratags have been added every time I've updated/added a new work.
Thank you for the quick fix!

[JimmXinu]

New (Point) Version Released

Version 4.26.1 - 2023-08-18
- Fix for extratags not being picked up by include_in_subjects

[MrKonan]

Hi, I've been trying to change fanficfare so whenever I've added or updated a story series from literotica fanficfare will add the right chapter numbers that was added by the author. (I've searched in this forum or in the faq..)

ie: Some stories chapter numbers were added like this

Story foo Title Series
foo chapter 001 - 010
foo chapter 011 - 020
..
..
foo chapter 050 - 060 (and so on)

When I check in calibre's edit/view book, the chapter numbers shows up properly on but in the calibre's metadata comments.. it's showing up as

1 <story description>
2 <story description>
..
10 <story description>

Is there a way I can set up fanficfare so the update process adds "001 - 010" to the metadata comments' instead of "1." "2." etc.

story sample/link:

Moderator Notice
NSFW link removed by mod

"The OF Girl"

Thanks

[JimmXinu]

Basically, no.

That story has some 14 chapters on the site, and the author has chosen to name them XXX Ch. 001-010, etc and embedded chapter headings of their own in the text of the real chapters.

FFF uses the site's chapter structure. You'll have to use some other tool (like Calibre's Edit book) if you want to change the book structure to match the author's implicit structure.

But be aware that doing so will almost certainly break FFF's ability to update the epub.

FYI, I've removed the NSFW link from your post. MR prefers not to have them.

EDIT: Actually, I may have writen a bit quicker than I read. Turning off the clean_chapter_titles setting may be sufficient for what you want.

[fathertyme]

Originally Posted by julo

This has been going on since last year and FFF has been fixed in April '22 to account for that. You may want to update FFF if you haven't yet.
But...
At or around the beginning of this year another sabotage was introduced: In the text after "There is more of this chapter..." of each chapter all "the" are replaced with "a". One can still read it but it seems, and is, weird reading it. I got completely away from SOL for that very reason even though there are unfinished series I started before and probably never will finish.

Sorry to go back a bit in the log, but...

The problem is that the SOL is now marking individual accounts as "bot" using some per-determined method. The only way to get it turned off is by the admin, and according to him, "only once".

It is still readable with the word replacements, but it also has removed all formatting, so it reads like on huge paragraph.

Personally, I have given up the website.

[Kolbo5]

Hello,

when I update a fic with FFF on Calibre, the last page that I have read is override: I update with FFF, push the epub on my reader and re-open it, it opens on first page.
I was using FFF and Calibre years ago and reuse it since a few weeks. I'm sure that previously the epub opened on the last read page, it was perfect to continue reading after updating.

I have tried modifying options (UpdateModes, update calibre metadata, …) unsuccessful.
I use Reading List, so I have tried to not use it: same, epub open on first page.
I have searched on the thread and FAQ, but can't find a solution.

Is there an option on Calibre or FFF that I have missed?

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Kolbo5

Hello,when I update a fic with FFF on Calibre, the last page that I have read is override: I update with FFF, push the epub on my reader and re-open it, it opens on first page.
I was using FFF and Calibre years ago and reuse it since a few weeks. I'm sure that previously the epub opened on the last read page, it was perfect to continue reading after updating.

That's going to depend on your reader. I don't know that there's anything FFF can do about it. What is your reader?

We do preserve Calibre's calibre_bookmarks.txt file inside epub on update, but that's in the library.

I know that with my Kindle (epubs converted to azw3), it remembers where I last was but it can vary a bit, especially with FFF's log page turned on.