[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[novelas_]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Yes. One of those lines--the one that leads to your browser's cache directory--needs to NOT have hash(#) characters in front of it.

I downloaded it, but for some reason it keeps opening tabs while the fic downloads. Do you have any ideas about what might be causing this?

[ownedbycats]

yes. If any line is commented, it isn't used. You also need to make sure it's the right path; unless your username is literally 'myname' fix that.

EDIT: Missed a page

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by novelas_

I downloaded it, but for some reason it keeps opening tabs while the fic downloads. Do you have any ideas about what might be causing this?

That's what the setting open_pages_in_browser:true does. It opens each page not already found in your cache in your default browser to try and get it in the cache. The alternative is to open each page yourself in the browser.

Still getting a "Page not found or expired in Browser Cache" error suggests that you may still not have browser_cache_path pointed at the correct cache directory.

Or some other random problem. It doesn't work 100% of the time.

Honestly, I don't really recommend FanFicFare for fanfiction.net for new users anymore. As you are finding, it has to be setup precisely and even then is rather inconvenient to use.

You might consider something like WebToEpub or fanfictiondownloader.net instead.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

I somehow suspect this isn't a FFF issue specifically, but does anybody know why sometimes I get an email notification about a fanfic update on AO3 but then when I go to download it the last-updated date is several weeks (or even months) old?

A friend send me this link: the author was using an AO3 draft, and forgot to change the date before posting.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2023-10-22
- Retry Calibre metadata update when it fails due to conflicting program(Windows File Explorer)

Don't if anyone else has seen it lately, but I've continued to bump into the problem where Calibre's metadata update fails simply because Window File Explorer is also open. Not open in the library, just open to some random dir(s) else where on disk.

To the best of my knowledge, Kovid ruled this the correct behavior.

I've added a retry to FFF on metadata update failure that first warns you:
"FanFicFare will try to update metadata again once. Close any interfering programs (such as Windows File Explorer) before closing this dialog."

[starfishpaws]

Hello, sorry in advance for what I'm sure is a very obvious question: I'm new to this and very confused. I have set up the personal.ini to log me into AO3 and successfully download, however I don't want my Calibre tag field populated with the AO3 tags (which are often useless). Can someone help me turn that feature off?

Again, thanks so much

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by starfishpaws

Hello, sorry in advance for what I'm sure is a very obvious question: I'm new to this and very confused. I have set up the personal.ini to log me into AO3 and successfully download, however I don't want my Calibre tag field populated with the AO3 tags (which are often useless). Can someone help me turn that feature off?

Again, thanks so much

[archiveofourown.org]

## AO3 doesn't have anything it calls 'genre'.  The adapter used to be
## hardcoded to include the site specific metadata freeformtags &
## ao3categories in the standard metadata field genre.  By making it
## configurable, users can change it.
include_in_genre: freeformtags, ao3categories

Remove 'freeformtags' should do it.

[ownedbycats]

Plugin seems to work as expected in Calibre 6.99! I sucessfully opened the configuration and successfully updated a story.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Pretty easy:

add_to_replace_metadata:
 description=>^(.*)$=>Prefix \1

If you have keep_summary_html:true (which is the default), you might want to use HTML.

I added this on the MetadataManagement page. Admittedly mostly for my own future reference.

[JimmXinu]

FYI, it looks like ffnet's notification emails aren't going out.

There's a reddit thread about it but nothing useful from ffnet themselves.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

FYI, it looks like ffnet's notification emails aren't going out.

There's a reddit thread about it but nothing useful from ffnet themselves.

This gave me a chuckle:

[ownedbycats]

Is there a way to block images from a specific domain? One fic I downloaded recently has a bunch of dead tinypic images, I manually removed then but it'd be nice to avoid that in the future.

[JimmXinu]

Not really. Turn off include_images for that story is about it.

Is this a common thing that users see? It seems pretty niche.

[ownedbycats]

Not sure, I searched the thread for tinypic but the only posts I found were a few years before it shut down.

[ownedbycats]

What is the command used to download custom CSS on AO3 without manually adding it to the output CSS? I'm having trouble searching in defaults.