[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[culytera]

Originally Posted by TaviCalderon

sorry, i know nothing about css or coding in general so i'm not sure where i went wrong. i added this under the [epub] section since that's the only format i have anything in.

Check this thread, you might get some ideas.

[TaviCalderon]

thanks guys!! i didn't realize i needed to add that line into wide_titlepage_entries, lol. thought i just needed to clear out what was in wide_titlepage_entries by default to make it work. my bad!

appreciate all your help to anyone else who is frantically googling and cannot find answers: if you want the summary/description of the work to be italicized on your title page for epubs, below is what i added and now it works!

Spoiler:

titlepage_entry:<b class="fff_tp_label" id="${id}_label">${label}:</b> <span class="fff_tp_value" id="${id}_value">${value}</span><br />

wide_titlepage_entries:<b class="fff_tp_label" id="${id}_label">${label}:</b> <span class="fff_tp_value" id="${id}_value">${value}</span><br />

add_to_output_css:
 #description_value {
    font-style:italic;
 }

[JimmXinu]

FYI, the latest test version specifically changes it so you don't need to include wide_titlepage_entries.

[penumbria]

I posted about this before around a month and a half ago and am still having the same issue. When I try to use the plugin to update an epub, to add a new epub, or to update an anthology from an AO3 fic, I get an error message: "HTTP Error in FFF '403 Client Error: Forbidden for URL:"

I've tried using a VPN, I've tried using free public wifi at a restaurant, and I even tried someone else's personal home wifi when I visited them and they live in a different state. It is always the same message.

I know the developer won't work on the issue when it is so localized and not widespread and I get it and understand and that is fine. But even though I can just download epubs from AO3, that doesn't help with ones that are updating regularly. Unless I download a new copy every few days or whenever they update which is a non-starter and waste of time.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to overcome this error so that I can once again update AO3 fics easily using the plugin? I'm not overly tech savvy or tech lingo knowledgable but I can follow directions.

[Tharos]

Originally Posted by penumbria

https://archiveofourown.org/works/55180027

I was able to load the story normally. Do you only have problems with this story, or with others as well?

[penumbria]

Every single story, whether an anthology, new to my Calibre, or updating an existing fic. They won't work for me. I get the same error message and have for over a month. I know it is a me problem not a widespread problem though I don't know why. It just started one day and I can't figure out a fix for it. As I said, I'm not really tech-savvy with this stuff but I've tried what people have suggested. I'm just hoping for a workaround I can use.

[Tharos]

Have you tried it with a new database and a new extension added there?

Specifically, I use the following for AO3 in the personal.ini:

[archiveofourown.org]
username:Maysupersecretusername
password:365Dayswithfreebeer
is_adult:true
extragenres:
extracategories:
extratags:
custom_columns_settings:
 category=>#ts
 fandoms=>#ts

There might be some nonsense in there, but it works for me.


Ok, I don't think I need to mention that these are not my real login details, do I?

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by penumbria

Every single story, whether an anthology, new to my Calibre, or updating an existing fic. They won't work for me. I get the same error message and have for over a month. I know it is a me problem not a widespread problem though I don't know why. It just started one day and I can't figure out a fix for it. As I said, I'm not really tech-savvy with this stuff but I've tried what people have suggested. I'm just hoping for a workaround I can use.

The only idea I have (and may have mentioned before), is to turn off always_login if you have it set true.

[ReikoLJ]

Hey there, first of all I love this plugin and have been using it successfully for many years across multiple devices and computers.
Unfortunately it has been behaving oddly for me lately. A few weeks back I came to use it and when I clicked on the 'FanFicFare' icon in the ribbon on calibre, nothing happened. No errors but no pop for asking for the usual URLs. I can open up all the other options within it by clicking the arrow menu button but even from there if I navigate to 'Download from URLs', nothing launches. Just silent failing

I uninstalled the plugin and reinstalled it but it didn't fix it. So I thought I would leave it alone for a bit until a new version came out. Today, I updated both calibre and the plugin but it's still doing it so I'm at a bit of a loss now.
Not sure if it logs anywhere? I couldn't see anything in the settings about a log location.

Hope you can help, thanks!

[JimmXinu]

You can restart Calibre in debug more (under Calibre's Preferences drop down), try again and then post the text log file you get after you quit Calibre.

As a new MobileRead user, you might not be able to attach files to posts right away. In which case, I suggest posting it to a file host site somewhere and link to it from here.

[TaviCalderon]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Now you can add calibre_std_rating to titlepage_entries. Note that it shows up as a 1-5 number. You can change that to some form of star using replace_metadata if you like.

hi again!

you mentioned this in an earlier conversation about another fix. how would i use replace_metadata to accomplish this? i tried adding the below to [defaults], [epub], and the [archiveofourown] sections but none of them actually worked.

replace_metadata:
 rating=>1=>★
 rating=>2=>★★
 rating=>3=>★★★
 rating=>4=>★★★★
 rating=>5=>★★★★★

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by TaviCalderon

hi again!

you mentioned this in an earlier conversation about another fix. how would i use replace_metadata to accomplish this? i tried adding the below to [defaults], [epub], and the [archiveofourown] sections but none of them actually worked.

replace_metadata:
 rating=>1=>★
 rating=>2=>★★
 rating=>3=>★★★
 rating=>4=>★★★★
 rating=>5=>★★★★★

Did you try using calibre_std_rating instead of rating? Because rating is different.

[TaviCalderon]

god DUH

thank you, you literally already told me that to change the label name and i immediately forgot it when i circled back around to this two weeks later. im sorry! lol

[TaviCalderon]

hi back yet again and i'm unsure if this is even possible, so if its not that is fine. just let me know if i'm off the mark!

is it possible to make the series: ____ and byline: ____ sections on my title pages hyperlinks to the series page and author page? like, the same way that the work title has the link to the site embedded in it.

before i went and customized it, the author name was at the very top of the titlepage where it went [Story Name] by [Author Name]. both were functioning links to the story and author pages on ao3. i have a section called "byline" lower down on my title page, which is where i prefer author names be, so i removed the author from the top of the page.

i feel like it should be possible to make the spot where my author names show up be a link once more even though its toward the bottom of the page, but i'm not sure how i would accomplish that. what i have tried so far looked like the below, adding to wide_titlepage_entries, and it didnt do anything at all. (tried something similar but with {seriesurl} instead of {authorurl}, also did not work.)

Spoiler:

wide_titlepage_entries:
<b class="fff_tp_label" id="${id}_label">${label}:</b>
<span class="fff_tp_value" id="${id}_value">
${id == 'author' ? '<a href="${authorurl}">${value}</a>' : '${value}'}
</span><br />

am i labelling something wrong, or am i trying to do the impossible?? (i am still bad at css and do not know what i am doing. still sorry about it.)

if it helps at all, the relevant section of my personal.ini [defaults] looks like this:

Spoiler:

titlepage_entries: series,category,ships,characters,<br />,calibre_std_rating,status,rating,warnings,ao3categories,bookmarktags,<br />
extra_titlepage_entries:chapterslashtotal,numWords,bookmarks,kudos,comments,hits,datePublished,dateUpdated,author,collections,<br />,freeformtags,<br />,description

replace_metadata:
 calibre_std_rating=>1=>★
 calibre_std_rating=>2=>★★
 calibre_std_rating=>3=>★★★
 calibre_std_rating=>4=>★★★★
 calibre_std_rating=>5=>★★★★★

and my [epub] section looks like this:

Spoiler:

[epub]
titlepage_start:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 <head>
 <title>${title}</title>
 <link href="stylesheet.css" type="text/css" charset="UTF-8" rel="stylesheet"/>
 </head>
 <body class="fff_titlepage">
 <h3><a href="${storyUrl}">${title}</a></h3>
 <div>

titlepage_entry:<b class="fff_tp_label" id="${id}_label">${label}:</b> <span class="fff_tp_value" id="${id}_value">${value}</span><br />


## When using tables, make these span both columns.
wide_titlepage_entries:<b class="fff_tp_label" id="${id}_label">${label}:</b> <span class="fff_tp_value" id="${id}_value">${value}</span><br />


add_to_output_css:
 #description_value {
    font-style: italic;
 }
 div.fff_chapter_notes {
    font-weight: bold;
    }

[JimmXinu]

Try seriesHTML and authorHTML. I don't think byline gets an 'HTML' version.