[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[ownedbycats]

Nice!

[Ealdwulf]

Originally Posted by ebichuman

I would like to compare it with my calibre data to see if I am missing any fics either from my spreadsheet or from Calibre. So I wanted to be able to view and export the table to compare. Now I can see the URL in Calibre. But is there also a way I can copy the columns that I can see as text to paste into Excel?

As Jim said, this is actually a Calibre question, but in the short term, "yes it can be done"

Go to Convert Books, bottom of the list is Create a Catalog. You can set it to be a CSV file and then select the columns you want.

[ownedbycats]

I got a NoneType error on restricted story again.

I noticed changelog. Could a change broke it?

If so, the timing (based on a search this thread for "nonetype") suggests the June 5 update.

[Lys]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

I got a NoneType error on restricted story again.

I noticed changelog. Could a change broke it?

If so, the timing (based on a search this thread for "nonetype") suggests the June 5 update.

I didn't get the error after putting this back in my personal.ini configuration:

always_login:true

If I comment it and try and run any update, it gives me the "nonetype" error on any restricted story, instead.

[ownedbycats]

I don't use that, just regular login. I'll try swapping it in.

Might indicate FFF doesn't recognize login page? The cache worked, so the story page is the same.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2025-07-05
- OTW/AO3 - change to 'need to login' text

[ownedbycats]

thank you

[ernand]

Is there a way to prevent the log page of Fics from having a massive empty space on each entry?
There is a WHUGE line of <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> between words and comments, and I would only need a single space.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ernand

Is there a way to prevent the log page of Fics from having a massive empty space on each entry?
There is a WHUGE line of <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> between words and comments, and I would only need a single space.

By default, I don't think FFF uses <br> tags in logpage at all.

I'd have to see an example and your logpage config to know any more.

[frenchtoast]

Hi there! I've searched the archives and can't seem to find the answer for this. Is there a way to make AO3 workskins work correctly in dark mode? I've really sensitive eyes so I always set my Kobo to dark mode but somehow workskins (like for instance images of text message chains) always get washed out and I have to revert to light mode to be able to read it. Is there a way around this apart from disabling workskins? Thanks for your amazing work!

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by frenchtoast

Hi there! I've searched the archives and can't seem to find the answer for this. Is there a way to make AO3 workskins work correctly in dark mode? I've really sensitive eyes so I always set my Kobo to dark mode but somehow workskins (like for instance images of text message chains) always get washed out and I have to revert to light mode to be able to read it. Is there a way around this apart from disabling workskins? Thanks for your amazing work!

Not as such.

FanFicFare has features to include AO3 workskins (use_workskin) and to set/add CSS to the epub output (add_to_output_css).

It does not have any features to intelligently look at the CSS being generated and change things.

If it's the workskin CSS specifically, you can turn it off--it's off by default, so you must have use_workskin:true somewhere.

You can also identify what elements in the CSS you don't like and override them per story or per site using add_to_output_css (add_to_ so you don't discard the defaults). Settings from output_css come after workskin CSS in the generated epub.

[ernand]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

By default, I don't think FFF uses <br> tags in logpage at all.

I'd have to see an example and your logpage config to know any more.

From what I can guess from my config. The FFF attempts to retrieve information for the log page, and if it fails, it keeps the formatting.

I was hoping that in case of a setting not appearing, it would also not show the </br> tag. Or is there a better formatting for what I am trying to do?

Here is my setting:

Spoiler:

## items to include in the log page Empty metadata entries, or those
## that haven't changed since the last update, will *not* appear, even
## if in the list. You can include extra text or HTML that will be
## included as-is in each log entry. Eg: logpage_entries: ...,<br />,
## summary,<br />,...
logpage_entries: dateCreated,<br />,datePublished,<br />,dateUpdated,<br />,numChapters,numWords,status,<br />,series,<br />,title,<br />,author,<br />,description,<br />,category,<br />,genre,<br />,rating,<br />,warnings,<br />,fandoms,<br />,freeformtags,<br />,
ao3categories,<br />,comments,<br />,chapterstotal,<br />,kudos,
hits,<br />,bookmarks,<br />,collections,<br />,byline,<br />,bookmarked,<br />,bookmarktags,
bookmarksummary,<br />,bookmarkprivate,<br />,bookmarkrec,<br />,restricted,<br />,series00,
series01,<br />,series02,<br />,series03

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ernand

From what I can guess from my config. The FFF attempts to retrieve information for the log page, and if it fails, it keeps the formatting.

I was hoping that in case of a setting not appearing, it would also not show the </br> tag. Or is there a better formatting for what I am trying to do?

Yeah, that's not how it works. It's giving you all of the <br> tags you put in regardless.

You should instead look at changing the logpage_entry setting. See CustomOutput wiki page.

[wildfire070]

I have a custom column for fic urls; is there a way for me to select multiple fics and have Calibre open the selected urls in bulk in my browser? Currently I've been selecting a fic, click on url, then go to next fic and repeat.

[JimmXinu]

Story URL is already recorded in Calibre's Ids(identifiers:url) column.

And FFF has a feature 'Get Story URLs from Selected Books' that will give you a text list of story URLs from the Ids field you can copy.

I don't know off hand how you'd then open them all in browser, but I expect there are ways.