[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[HowWouldIKnow]

[QUOTE=JimmXinu;4531339]

Originally Posted by HowWouldIKnow

Hi, how can I fill the "Series" field for Literotica ?QUOTE]
The short answer is that Literotica does have series as FFF defines it.

literotica has 'Story Series' & 'Story'. FFF calls them 'Story' & 'Chapters'
See https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFa...ent-2078490037

Okay thanks.
Then I can get it via: 'Story' & 'Chapters' ?
But how is the tag called?

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by HowWouldIKnow

Okay thanks.
Then I can get it via: 'Story' & 'Chapters' ?
But how is the tag called?

In addition to screwing up the quote tag, I also missed typing an important part:

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

The short answer is that Literotica doesn't have series as FFF defines it.

There is no 'series' to collect from that site.

You can, if you so choose, copy the story title into series and then change it to something else:

# change storyurl to the url of the specific story.
[storyurl]
# copy story title into series
include_in_series:title

# change value of series to something else.
add_to_replace_metadata:
 series=>^.*$=>A Series [2]

[ownedbycats]

Question: The same fic author has different stories on AO3 and ffnet, and prefer to use AO3 authorUrl. Would an exclude_metadata on the ffnet authorUrl be the best way to do this?

[JimmXinu]

I'm not 100% I understand the question.

Author is one of those fields FFF and Calibre expect to be there--I honestly don't know what will happen if you try to remove it entirely from a story.

Changing the ffnet authorUrl to be the AO3 authorUrl might do what you want.

What I do is just change the author name for one site and live with it.

[ownedbycats]

Somebody made a tool for "anti-AI scraping" (or scrapping, lol) which messes up the HTML on stories.

I put the demo into fanficfare and it came back pretty much gibberish at the end.

Don't know if anything can be done, thought should be aware just in case this becomes more widespread and you start getting "why is fff adding gibberish?"

[JimmXinu]

Set use_workskin:true fixes it for me. Or rather, it applies the same 'de-obfuscation' CSS that is applied in browser.

Considering that hiding additional text in HTML for purposes of shaping search results has been a thing for decades, I honestly don't expect this tool to help all that much with it's stated purpose of AI scrape poisoning. I expect serious scrape tools will also apply CSS.

[DevilsReject97]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

novelfull needs flaresolverr. I also needed to bump up timeouts recently when testing a similar report.

[novelfull.com]
use_flaresolverr_proxy:true
slow_down_sleep_time:7
## flaresolverr_proxy_timeout is in integer milliseconds.
## Keep flaresolverr_proxy_timeout set smaller than connect_timeout
## otherwise the connection *to* flaresolverr will timeout first.
flaresolverr_proxy_timeout:59000

Was searching through due to this very issue - is there an install for dummies for flaresolverr? I'm not a Python/Docker user, so I wanted to ask. Really appreciate all the work you do and I'm grateful for any assistance.

[indecisivemess]

Hi! I recently bought my first E-reader and have been trying out Calibre and FFF.

I'm very bad with tech so learning how to use the personal.ini has been an adventure. I've used the defaults.ini, github and this thread as guides and have kind of frankensteined together my personal (a lot of it is copy and pasted script from this thread and because I still don't really know what I'm doing I can't tell where I'm going wrong).

I only use AO3 so that's what I've configured my FFF for. I've made custom columns for the metadata but only my character and fandom custom columns are working.
The custom columns that aren't working are Audience (for ratings), Fanfic Status and Ship.
Under Preferences -> Add your own columns -> I also have Chapter Count, Kudos, Genre Tags that don't display in my Calibre library despite being ticked.

What do I need to change to get those working?
I hope this isn't too silly of a question.
Any help would be appreciated! Below I've attached screenshots of my personal.ini but if there's a better way to share it please let me know.

[culytera]

Originally Posted by indecisivemess

I've used the defaults.ini, github and this thread as guides and have kind of frankensteined together my personal (a lot of it is copy and pasted script from this thread and because I still don't really know what I'm doing I can't tell where I'm going wrong).

What do I need to change to get those working?

Looks like you copied from what I shared here, but they somehow got jumbled. Did you use something that rearranged it? The freeformtag changes should NOT be under include_subject_tags (now empty for some reason), they should be under replace_metadata.

If some metadata aren't showing up, check your Custom Column settings in Fanficfare's settings and the custom_columns_settings in personal.ini.

[indecisivemess]

Thank you! Yes I copied most of what I saw from you and ownedbycats as you guys seem like you know what you're doing.

My friends that do IT tried to help me with it and that might be why it's all jumbled.

I replaced the include_subject_tags with replace_metadata like you said. Should I put the include_subject_tags somewhere else and if so where?

The custom columns are working now all except Ships (and Kudos but I think I set it up wrong in Calibre). The custom column tag on Calibre seems to match the one in the personal.ini: ships=>#ship and in FFF it's categorised as Relationships. Is there something I'm missing?

Also thank you for such a speedy reply you are a lifesaver!

[culytera]

Originally Posted by indecisivemess

I replaced the include_subject_tags with replace_metadata like you said. Should I put the include_subject_tags somewhere else and if so where?

I put mine under [defaults]. include_subject_tags should have values if you want to put tags in Calibre. If you don't want to use the prefix_* tags you can remove those lines entirely and add the tags you want in include_subject_tags.

Originally Posted by indecisivemess

The custom columns are working now all except Ships (and Kudos but I think I set it up wrong in Calibre). The custom column tag on Calibre seems to match the one in the personal.ini: ships=>#ship and in FFF it's categorised as Relationships. Is there something I'm missing?

I don't see in your screenshots where you're adding the kudos metadata to your #kudos custom column. By default, [archiveofourown.org] already has an extra_valid_entry called "kudos" so you can just add it to your custom_columns_settings.

add_to_custom_columns_settings:
 kudos=>#kudos

For ships you can just put the value of Relationships to #ship (Fanficfare settings -> Custom Columns tab).

[indecisivemess]

Thank you! Added the kudos in )
I'm a bit confused with the tags. What is the difference between subject tags and the free form tags that can be customised to be included or not. None of additional tags are working for me, would that be because of this or is that a separate issue?


For ships you can just put the value of Relationships to #ship (Fanficfare settings -> Custom Columns tab).[/QUOTE]

I've done this already (just double checking the value is the dropdown options), but it's not working. I've also double checked the lookup name matches. My type is set to 'Comma, separated text, like tags, shown in the Tag browser'

[indecisivemess]

Thank you! Added the kudos in )
I'm a bit confused with the tags. What is the difference between subject tags and the free form tags that can be customised to be included or not. None of additional tags/column is working for me and customised free form tags aren’t showing up anywhere either, would that be because of this or is that a separate issue?


[/QUOTE]For ships you can just put the value of Relationships to #ship (Fanficfare settings -> Custom Columns tab).[/QUOTE]

I've done this already (just double checking the value is the one w dropdown options), but it's not working. I've also double checked the lookup name matches. My type is set to 'Comma, separated text, like tags, shown in the Tag browser' if that makes a difference.

[culytera]

Originally Posted by indecisivemess

I'm a bit confused with the tags. What is the difference between subject tags and the free form tags that can be customised to be included or not. None of additional tags/column is working for me and customised free form tags aren’t showing up anywhere either, would that be because of this or is that a separate issue?

subject tags = the tags that show up in Calibre in the tag browser usually on the left, under🏷️ Tags.

freeform tags are the additional tags authors add in AO3, like "Fluff", "Angst", their ramblings, etc.

If you add freeform_tags in include_subject_tags, you'll see the tag browser in chaos for example, that's why I prefer to just add it to the first page of the fanfic (the titlepage_entries option).

Originally Posted by indecisivemess

I've done this already (just double checking the value is the one w dropdown options), but it's not working. I've also double checked the lookup name matches. My type is set to 'Comma, separated text, like tags, shown in the Tag browser' if that makes a difference.

You don't see it in your tag browser? Go to Calibre's preferences -> Look & feel -> Tag browser and check the #Ship custom column if it isn't already.

If you want to see it as a column, make sure the column is also checked in Preferences -> Add your own columns