[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

I'm getting similar NoneType/gettext errors as in #10854

Restricted story, logged onto archiveofourown.gay in browser to get cahced pages. Then just from curiousity, disabled cache and tried again. It worked.

Not sure how logging in browser fixed it, or just weird timing. Might worth looking into.

I can only speculate that the correct pages weren't actually cached.

I don't recommend using both use_archiveofourown_gay and browser cache. I even added a note about that at the bottom of https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFa...oblematicSites

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Also: Any idea why updating fic sometimes minimizes Calibre?

Nope, sorry.

[ownedbycats]

I wasn't using cache when I got the errors. I turned on cache to get the fic after 2 attempts downloading. Then I turned it back off afer succesful download and it was working after that.

[JimmXinu]

Then I expect it was just the same error / blocking as regular site happening on archiveofourown.gay.

Honestly, I expected that to happen. And I will not be surprised if it eventually becomes just as bad as the main site.

Because I don't think we're seeing 'errors'. I think we're seeing 'blocking automated download'.

[ownedbycats]

If happens again, I'll see if visiting the site in browser might fix something. It worked at the beginning of the ffnet issues before they went aggressive with blocking (and I don't think OTW will do that unless they're being actively DDoSed).

[grimorie]

I just installed Koreader into my e-reader, can fanficfare also upload updated chapters to koreader or do I use a different plugin for this ala kobo utilities?

[JimmXinu]

My experience with KOReader is that it opens and reads updated books with new chapters fine just by writing the new epub to the device.

However, it doesn't automatically update the cached metadata displayed in it's file browser, if any of that's changed.

The only reason I know anything about it is I've just this last week been switching to KOReader on Kobo. Due to all the extra steps necessary for Kobo's native software (aka Nickel), I decided to disable the KoboTouch and use the User Defined USB device instead. Some discussion over here.

[grimorie]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

My experience with KOReader is that it opens and reads updated books with new chapters fine just by writing the new epub to the device.

However, it doesn't automatically update the cached metadata displayed in it's file browser, if any of that's changed.

The only reason I know anything about it is I've just this last week been switching to KOReader on Kobo. Due to all the extra steps necessary for Kobo's native software (aka Nickel), I decided to disable the KoboTouch and use the User Defined USB device instead. Some discussion over here.

Thank you, will check out the thread!

[DisturbedDragon]

Hey, not sure if this was brought up, but I've been getting "HTTP Error in FFF '403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://www.fimfiction.net/ajax/login'(403)" for every fimfiction story. I checked that my username/password were correct, is there anything more I can do to fix this?
Tested on https://www.fimfiction.net/story/523016/ and https://www.fimfiction.net/story/405121/

Edit: did some searching in the thread, the last mention of a similar issue was from february? Is there no solution besides using flaresolver?

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by DisturbedDragon

Hey, not sure if this was brought up, but I've been getting "HTTP Error in FFF '403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://www.fimfiction.net/ajax/login'(403)" for every fimfiction story. I checked that my username/password were correct, is there anything more I can do to fix this?
Tested on https://www.fimfiction.net/story/523016/ and https://www.fimfiction.net/story/405121/

Edit: did some searching in the thread, the last mention of a similar issue was from february? Is there no solution besides using flaresolver?

My notes indicate that I've had to use flaresolverr to get fimfiction to work at all for a long time now.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2025-06-16
- Send refresh_screen=True when updating Reading Lists in case of series column updates.
- Add SB favicons to cover_exclusion_regexp.
- Support for logging into royal road to keep chapter progress (and count as page views), #1222, thanks snoonan.

[iakrus]

hi,
i just updated fanficfare and 3 other plugins, but i dont remember exactly which 3. i havent downloaded fics in a while, im sort of waiting for ao3 to sort its servers out, but i wanted to do some today. i got this "failed to download stories" pop up, which i have never gotten before. i changed the story i was downloading, changed to transformative works instead of ao3, but im getting the same result.

calibre, version 8.4.0 (win32, embedded-python: True)
Failed to Download Stories: Failed: Download 6 FanFiction Book(s)

Download 6 FanFiction Book(s)
Failed to initialize plugin: 'C:\\Users\\[name]\\AppData\\Roaming\\calibre\\plugins\\DeDRM.zip'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "runpy.py", line 198, in _run_module_as_main
  File "runpy.py", line 88, in _run_code
  File "site.py", line 83, in <module>
  File "site.py", line 78, in main
  File "site.py", line 50, in run_entry_point
  File "calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 213, in main
  File "calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 148, in arbitrary_n
AttributeError: module 'calibre_plugins.fanficfare_plugin.jobs' has no attribute 'do_download_worker'. Did you mean: 'do_download_for_worker'?

any ideas on what the issue is?

[JimmXinu]

That looks like you may not have gotten a clean download of the plugin zip file.

Or maybe you didn't restart calibre after plugin update?

[ownedbycats]

I'd suggest deinstalling and reinstalling from site.

[grampakrampus]

I'm getting "ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>HTTPErrorFFF</b>:HTTP Error in FFF '525 Server Error:" -- I just updated the plugin and also restarted Calibre. Was trying to download a batch of URLs. Help?

[ownedbycats]

use_archiveofourown_gay:true