[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[Elseria]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

I was able to download the images in that story. I would suspect it's an issue with the image hosting blocking.

Thank you for verifying.
I had initially dropped that idea since my VPNs were also not working.

I dug a bit deeper and for some reason or another, what ended up being the problem for me was it was unable to handle image URLs with leading forward slashes (src="//46613.mitemin.net/.../"), which resulted in a request with extra forward slashes after the https (https:////46613.mitemin.net/.../).

I added a line in the plugin code to replace "https:////" with "https://" and that fixed this for me.

Not sure why this only affected my end; I'm guessing some sort of windows setting on my machine that causes it to be a problem, but I'm not gonna worry about it.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

New Test Version Posted

2025-05-10
- AO3 make use_(domain) options not replace media.archiveofourown.org

It worked!

New question, re: the same story (https://archiveofourown.org/works/42492291). The cover selected the second image, not first. (Both downloaded.) I wanted to do anyways, but why did it happen?

EDIT: I also updated https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFa...s#mirror-sites to note the change.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

New question, re: the same story (https://archiveofourown.org/works/42492291). The cover selected the second image, not first. (Both downloaded.) I wanted to do anyways, but why did it happen?

My download used the first embedded image as cover.

However, that first image comes out quite small vertically with the default image_max_size. If you have a custom cover_min_size setting, it may have rejected the first image.

[ownedbycats]

ah, yeah I do. Thanks.

[Clem2605]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

It could be that the image didn't process. I'd have to see the story in question to do more than speculate.

I'm sorry, I forgot I had asked a question...

As far as I know, it doesn't work with any story on ff.net, but here are two random one:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3125559/1/Anabasis
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1148107...tute-And-Alive

I have checked my cover setting and everything should work, the covers are still made from A03, and the only piece of code related to the cover in the fanfiction.net section is:
[CODE]skip_author_cover:false[CODE]

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Clem2605

As far as I know, it doesn't work with any story on ff.net, but here are two random one:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3125559/1/Anabasis
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1148107...tute-And-Alive

I have checked my cover setting and everything should work, the covers are still made from A03, and the only piece of code related to the cover in the fanfiction.net section is:
[CODE]skip_author_cover:false[CODE]

I'm able to download those covers fine (with skip_author_cover:false).

Do you have cover_min_size set? ffnet 'covers' are really just thumbnails. Even the 'big' version is only 180x240

[mijkala]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFa...oblematicSites

I hope AO3 hurries up and fixes it so we can stop answering these questions.

I do hope the fix it soon too.

I've been able to download and update things using the archiveofourown.gay and can even download locked fics bc I'm logged in, but it doesn't save any of my bookmark notes.

Do you know any work arounds for that besides manually going into each book and adding it? I had my personal.ini set up so on the the title page it would include my "bookmark summary"

[ownedbycats]

Request: I've come across fics where varying numbers of <br> tags were enclosed in <p> tags (here's one). remove_empty_p didn't remove these, not empty.

Should they? I can imagine <p><br><br></p> being used for scene dividers, but not actually seen it. Might also be unintended effects?

remove_empty_p is kinda kludge, so may not want to tinker too much.

[JimmXinu]

## Some sites/authors/stories (notably AO3/OTW) add empty p tags where
## they aren't intended by the author during document upload and not
## all authors know how/take the time to fix it.  This feature removes
## all "empty" <p> tags, ie, those containing only whitespace or <br>
## tags.  Literally: <p[^>]*>\s*(<br/>)*\s*</p>
#remove_empty_p: false

So apparently I need to change that to <p[^>]*>\s*(<br/?>)*\s*</p>

Gee, it sure would be nice if I knew a story that was exhibiting the problem to test with... -- My bad--I missed seeing the URL.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2025-05-12
- Fix remove_empty_p regexp to work with nested <br> tags and whitespace.

Since remove_empty_p was only added last month, it's likely this is the first time someone's actually tried to use it with nested <br> tags for real.

[crimson]

Hello. In the epub title page, instead of <br/>, I want to use <p> for each metadata. How do I do this?

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by crimson

Hello. In the epub title page, instead of <br/>, I want to use <p> for each metadata. How do I do this?

You add your own titlepage_entry setting under [epub] in personal.ini

See wiki page.

[crimson]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

You add your own titlepage_entry setting under [epub] in personal.ini

See wiki page.

Thanks for the response! Though, I cannot figure out how to force a line break after <p></p>. I've tried to add a new line with space in personal.ini, but it didn't work. Now the HTML text looks like a jumbled mess without line breaks.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by crimson

Thanks for the response! Though, I cannot figure out how to force a line break after <p></p>. I've tried to add a new line with space in personal.ini, but it didn't work. Now the HTML text looks like a jumbled mess without line breaks.

The easiest way to add newlines to custom output is to make it multi-line in INI:

titlepage_entry:
 <b>${label}:</b> ${value}<br />

I don't know an easy way to get multiple empty newlines off hand.

Look at the newlines in txt for multiple empty newlines. Works the same in HTML.

# make sure to keep a single space on the line after this--it's
# one, empty newline for inclusion below.  Define in same section as entry.
newline:
 
# You can't see it, but there's a space on the line above.

titlepage_entry:
 <b>${label}:</b> ${value}<br />
 %(newline)s

[ThreeLizards]

Hi!

So I make catalogs of the fanfics that I upload to my kindle, make it easy to find books. It lets you choose a tags column. Well, the column I was using, #mytags, didn’t have fandom or pairing in it and I want to add those into a column so they’ll be in the catalog. So I created a #catalog_column and set up in the personal INI to have the appropriate data sent there. However, I would like it if I could have it modify the info, so instead of Marvel, it’ll put Fandom: in front of it, that way all the fandoms are sorted together. Is there a way to set this up in the personal ini?

TLDR
I have:
CatalogColumn shows Marvel, Stony, T

I want:
CatalogColumn: Fandom: Marvel, Pairing: Stony, Rating: T

Thank you for your help!