[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[ownedbycats]

https://ao3org.tumblr.com/post/77196...s-please#notes

[nan1923]

Thanks, that explains quite a few things.

I'll need to keep a better eye on their tumblr in the future then.

[PacifiedOwl]

I've been having this problem for a few months and it's been driving me crazy. For whatever reason I'm not able to use the get URL feature because the whole URL I'm trying to pull from won't populate to the box when I open it, and if I type one or copy the full URL I get an HTTP error. It doesn't seem to matter if the URL is short or long. I attached a random example of when I open the box with the URL on my clip board and what I get after I paste the full thing.

I'm hoping someone can tell me what's going wrong, it wasn't an issue for a long time, now when I try to update some things I have to copy/paste individual links instead. If it's user error I can't figure it out. I've gone through all the settings I can find in Calibre and FFF, and I've made sure everything is up to date and cleaned up on my computer so I'm out of ideas now.

[JimmXinu]

Can you give an example URL (SFW) in text that I can try?

AO3 is struggling today, but I was able to get a list of story URLs from a tags works page.

And even when it doesn't work, you can always copy/paste or highlight/drag the HTML page from browser into FFF.

[PacifiedOwl]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Can you give an example URL (SFW) in text that I can try?

AO3 is struggling today, but I was able to get a list of story URLs from a tags works page.

And even when it doesn't work, you can always copy/paste or highlight/drag the HTML page from browser into FFF.

It's been happening for quite a while. https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Star Wars - All Media Types/works is the URL I've been using to test different fixes. The error I attached is what I get when I paste the URL directly into that box after deleting the incomplete URL that appears when I open it, so that isn't working for me either. Occasionally I'll get one to work, but then if I try others after that, or if I try the same one again, nothing will work.

[JimmXinu]

I assume that is meant to be:

https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Star Wars - All Media Types/works

If I put it in the browser, load the page, then copy it from the browser, I get %20 for the spaces and everything works. It looks like so:

https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Star%20Wars%20-%20All%20Media%20Types/works

FFF's code that gets URLs from the clipboard does a basic 'split()' and that's why it's stopping at '/Star'.

That code is some 11 years old. So it's not a recent change in FFF.

Are you saving that url in a text file or something? Otherwise, I would speculate that it's your browser, or something in your copy/paste chain that doesn't add the %20 or removes it.

Copying the full URL (with spaces) into FFF, something down inside libraries FFF calls replaces the spaces with '+', which is an older substitution but should still be valid.

I would further speculate that AO3's servers aren't accepting the '+' anymore for some reason.

[PacifiedOwl]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

I would speculate that it's your browser, or something in your copy/paste chain that doesn't add the %20 or removes it.

Copying the full URL (with spaces) into FFF, something down inside libraries FFF calls replaces the spaces with '+', which is an older substitution but should still be valid.

I would further speculate that AO3's servers aren't accepting the '+' anymore for some reason.

You are a wizard, thank you. I'm not sure where the copy/paste issue is exactly, but when I did a find/replace of the spaces and '+'s to use %20 instead it works like it used to for me.

[ownedbycats]

Question: Have AO3 updates been slow for anyone else? I'm guessing its the outage yesterday.

[JimmXinu]

AO3 has been extremely slow for me this week.

[steltek]

A03 has been absolutely bog slow for me for more than a week now. Like sometimes, 5 minutes or longer to download metadata.

Nothing is timing out so far, but it is literally moving like ice cold molasses.

[FrostWard]

A few days ago, FanFicFare won't download anything through links, I thought maybe it was the recent configuration i gave it, so I uninstalled it and installed it again, but it will keep going to Fetching Metadata and then goes unresponsive and i have to close calibre, could it be because calibre updated to the latest version?

(ps. sorry if the message is repeated or something, i legit just created an account to ask for help cause i cant find a way to fix it myself, and its my first time using this forum)

[JimmXinu]

What site(s)? Because we were just discussing how AO3 has been extremely slow lately....

[FrostWard]

It was actually ao3. I did read a bit back and noticed ao3 was having some issues, but i assumed it would at least show some progress. In my case it would just force me to close caliber entirely.

[ownedbycats]

How do I add a series to a ffnet story?

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

How do I add a series to a ffnet story?

Manually. ffnet doesn't have a series mechanism.

On the General config tag in the Misc box (middle right), there's a checkbox for 'Inject calibre series when none found' to get that manually set series on the title page on update.

Or if you want, you could play with using include_in_series to give it a value and then replace_metadata to set it to your desired value.