[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[John Maverick]

I have received this email in my @hotmail.com mail.

Update your sign-in technology before September 16th, 2024 to maintain email access.

The safety and security of your information is top priority for Microsoft. To help keep your account secure, Microsoft will no longer support the use of third-party email and calendar apps which ask you to sign in with only your Microsoft Account username and password. To keep you safe you will need to use a mail or calendar app which supports Microsoft's modern authentication methods. If you do not act, your third-party email apps will no longer be able to access your Outlook.com, Hotmail or Live.com email address on September 16th.

Would this affect FFF getting links from emails? I use this email to get notifications of updates of fics I follow.

Can something be done to still getting the fics urls from email?

If not, what email provider can recommend me that will work with FFF auth?

As always,thanks in advance.

[JimmXinu]

Multi-reply

Regex

Originally Posted by Homer55

does this means that this will apply only when the tag is for example "Wizarding World" but not if the tag is "Wizarding Worlds"?

Correct.

Originally Posted by Homer55

Also, there's a fic that get's tagged as "Saga Of Tanya The Evil, Tanya the Evil (Sort-of), Tanya the evil" tanya the evil get's repeated three times. something like

 category=>^ (Saga Of Tanya The Evil|Tanya the Evil \(Sort-of\)|Tanya the evil)$=>Youjo Senki

would be fine? I ask becuase of the multiple tanya's there

Yes, but you have a space right after ^ that matters in regexp.

You could generalize it to something like:

 category=>(?i)^.*Tanya The Evil.*$=>Youjo Senki
# (?i) means ignore case and must be at the very start

And it's better to use [code] tags instead of [quote] tags for code sections. I put your code back in--the site discards nested quotes when quoting to reply. FYI.

Series for Anthologies

Originally Posted by Nickname

Is there a way to add series[0] to existing anthologies in Calibre ?
I found the option to add it to "New Anthologies", but have not figured out what I need to do to make it happen to ones I already have....

Not with FFF. But because FFF uses the series name for the anthology title, you can copy it to the Series column. This also removes ' Anthology' from it.

A quick search found this old post that explains how. Except you'd want:

Search Mode: Regular Expression
Search Field: title
Search for: (.*) Anthology
Replace with: \1
Destination Field: series

Originally Posted by Nickname

Also : is there a way to make an anthology from the CLI, or is it a plugin option only ?

Plugin only. My general assumption is CLI users can use epubmerge.py to merge their own anthologies.

Email

Originally Posted by John Maverick

I have received this email in my @hotmail.com mail.

Other people have reported problems using Microsoft / Outlook also.

I've never used it with any service but Gmail. Gmail started requiring 2FA, but gave an option called Google App Passwords for unique-per-app passwords.

One user reported success switching to mail.gmx.com. I know nothing about it.

[ownedbycats]

If you use Mozilla Thunderbird, it's possible to drag-and-drop the emails into the 'download from URLs' window. (I seem to vaguely recall dragging onto the FFF toolbar button also should work, but it doesn't for me.)

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

If you use Mozilla Thunderbird, it's possible to drag-and-drop the emails into the 'download from URLs' window. (I seem to vaguely recall dragging onto the FFF toolbar button also should work, but it doesn't for me.)

It works for me intermittently on Win10. Dragging around in circles on the button a couple times will usually get it work. Kovid said it was a Qt issue.

[kagekarasu]

hello, i got this error will trying to update a fic from fanfiction.net:
"
Browser Cache Failed to Load with error 'Python int too large to convert to C long'
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7207791/1/From-Fake-Dreams "
what do i do?

[JimmXinu]

I was able to download that using all three versions of BrowserCache -- I don't think it's the FFF code.

BrowserCache

You can try the usual things:

• Clear your browser cache
• Manually downloading each chapter
• Turn on open_pages_in_browser:true
• Turn on continue_on_chapter_error:true

[kagekarasu]

thanks, open_pages_in_browser:true was the one that fixed it.

[Clem2605]

So, I have been trying to find a solution to a problem that I have:

I find that, often, the freeform tags on AO3, while a nightmare to use as an organization tool, are a very good complement to the description.
This is why, if I want to keep heavily trimming them down via 'replace_metada' for my tag column, I would also like to find a way to add them, untouched, to the description.

Since, to my understanding, there is no way of adding them to the description before replace_metadata does its thing, I was thinking of doing it in two times:
1) Download the stories and put the freeform tags in the description with no heavy 'tag management' in my replace_metadata (just deleting useless tags like 'Translation in ... available' etc...)
2) Add the 'Tag Management' part of my replace_metadata to my personal.ini and run an update from the saved metadata column to re-populate my Tag column.

I have two questions:

1) How do I add the content of the freeform tags to my description? Would

include_in_description:

work, or is there another way? (is it even possible?)

2) Does someone have a better idea?

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Clem2605

I find that, often, the freeform tags on AO3, while a nightmare to use as an organization tool, are a very good complement to the description.
This is why, if I want to keep heavily trimming them down via 'replace_metada' for my tag column, I would also like to find a way to add them, untouched, to the description.

Since, to my understanding, there is no way of adding them to the description before replace_metadata does its thing, ...

On the contrary, there is a way to do that.

But it was designed for list entries, so it's not quite perfect for add to description.

# keep description, then freeformtags without replace or in/exclude processing.
include_in_description:description,freeformtags.NOREPL

# description is now a 'list' as far as FFF is concerned.
# keep in order, or else they will be alphabetized.
# Depending on Calibre custom column type, freeformtags may be 
# order in library, too.
keep_in_order_description:true
keep_in_order_freeformtags:true

# Optionally include this to remove the comma(,) between description 
# and freeformtags *and* each entry in freeformtags when in description.
# Doesn't affect commas in the actual description text. \s = space
join_string_description:\s

[Clem2605]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

On the contrary, there is a way to do that.

Thank you!! I must've gotten something confused when trying to understand how it worked.

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

# keep description, then freeformtags without replace or in/exclude processing.
include_in_description:description,freeformtags.NOREPL

# description is now a 'list' as far as FFF is concerned.
# keep in order, or else they will be alphabetized.
# Depending on Calibre custom column type, freeformtags may be 
# order in library, too.
keep_in_order_description:true
keep_in_order_freeformtags:true

# Optionally include this to remove the comma(,) between description 
# and freeformtags *and* each entry in freeformtags when in description.
# Doesn't affect commas in the actual description text. \s = space
join_string_description:\s

But when I try this, without modifying anything, it just gives me an empty comment field...

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Clem2605

But when I try this, without modifying anything, it just gives me an empty comment field...

Works for me.

I assume you know to put it under [archiveofourown.org]

[Clem2605]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Works for me.

I assume you know to put it under [archiveofourown.org]

Yes, it's under the AO3 section ^^!

So after further tests, it seems to work well when adding stories, but when I try to update from the saved metadata, everything gets erased.

I can't see why it would work in one case and not the other...?

[JimmXinu]

I wonder if you have a circular dependency going on. Do you pass the calibre columns back into FFF on update?

Can you share the 'safe' version of your personal.ini?

[wildfire070]

Is there a way to preserve how an author formats the html coding for their story? There's a textfic story on AO3 that I downloaded with FFF where the images aren't appearing correctly vs how it appears on AO3.

EDIT:
I think I got it by adding

use_workskin:true

to the AO3 section. Can I continue to leave that in my personal.ini or should I only edit it to true for certain stories. Will it do more harm than good by leaving it default.

[JimmXinu]

I don't know what percent of AO3 stories use a work skin and what percent would be 'harmed'.

Personally, I don't keep it on all the time, but then I prefer consistent appearance over custom.