[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

By increasing browser_cache_age_limit, if it's still there.

But, unless you use a different browser for FFF, how would you know without invalidating the cache?

Downloaded without cache on, said story not available. And I knew it was overwritten because I'd cleared the cache last night, after I opened in browser.

[hepalien]

Hello! Hoping someone can help me with this — I'm working on cleaning up my metadata, and one of the bookmark tags I used to use on Ao3 was "fave author". I'm trying to use replace_metadata in calibre to make it "Favorite Authors", but because author is a field in FanFicFare, it's not working (the word turns green in my personal.ini). How do I escape it to make it match the literal word? I've tried '', ', \, [ ], \{}, ., .*, (.*) (various suggestions I've found online, but I think I don't have the right terms to google). Thanks!

[hepalien]

Originally Posted by hepalien

Hello! Hoping someone can help me with this — I'm working on cleaning up my metadata, and one of the bookmark tags I used to use on Ao3 was "fave author". I'm trying to use replace_metadata in calibre to make it "Favorite Authors", but because author is a field in FanFicFare, it's not working (the word turns green in my personal.ini). How do I escape it to make it match the literal word? I've tried '', ', \, [ ], \{}, ., .*, (.*) (various suggestions I've found online, but I think I don't have the right terms to google). Thanks!

Ah dang it, of course I figured it out as soon as I posted this. I was accidentally testing on a fic I'd apparently added the tag to manually so it wasn't pulling it when I updated from saved metadata. Sorry!

[ownedbycats]

AO3 fic (explicit) uses <p>&nbsp;</p> to break scenes. It disappears, even with remove_empty_p:false in storyUrl section. Ideas?

[JimmXinu]

Have you adjusted keep_empty_tags to remove p?

## By default, empty tags are removed as part of cleaning up the
## source HTML.  However, a few tags should be kept even if empty.
## (Whitespace only, including   is considered empty.)  This
## setting can adjust which tags are kept.
keep_empty_tags:p,td,th

[ownedbycats]

Have not adjusted that from default.ini.

[JimmXinu]

I put <p>&nbsp;</p> in adapter_test1 code and comes through.

I would need to see the story URL(PM) and personal.ini.

[ownedbycats]

I ran another overwrite. This time it worked. Maybe i used wrong update mode or something.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Also, I've been moving my storyUrl sections to a custom longtext column (#fanficsettings) to declutter my personal.ini. Most of them are finished/hiatused stories anyways so I can just copy it in when needed.

This made me wonder if it'd be possible to add feature to read the storyUrl sections from the column directly. Probably not worth it to implement, considering that I'm the first to ask and possibly the only one who'd use it.

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Possible? Yes. Likely? No. I've considered that before, but I don't think the added complexity and added troubleshooting issues are worth it.

If anyone's interested, I posted in Action Chains Resources a chain which can help with this:

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Here's my enhanced version of the chain that additionally also copies story-specific settings from a column. This allows me to reduce the size of personal.ini by removing settings for completed stories while still keeping them available if I later need them.

to use, create a long-text column (interpret type: plain text) with lookup name #fanficsettings.

As I suggest editing settings in the personal.ini editor rather than the column itself, I also included Calibre ID in the commented header to make it easier to locate the book the section's associated with. An example from my library:

## stillwaters01 - There Were Days (8382)
[https://archiveofourown.org/works/959950]
exclude_notes:chaptersummary

[Vallora]

Like a few people already, I'm getting a "HTTP Error in FFF '403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://archiveofourown.gay/users/login'(403)" This is also for .org as well. I've tried some of the other redirects but from the list that's usable, some of them turn RED when I try to type them in for a redirect. This is only happening with authors that are "Locked". I've tried to comment out my username but nothing pops up to let me log in to download unless there's something else I have to do to set that up. My personal.ini is very bare so there isn't anything that should be messing with, and as a last ditch attempt, I've even used a VPN. If a debug log is needed I'll need to be walked through it but I don't know what else to try. And also, I haven't tried to download any new stories for a month now and this just started a week or two ago. Please help or point me to previous threads that can walk me through anything that could make this work again. I'm using Chrome so if I need to switch to Firefox is I have to set up a cashe or something, I'll do it.

Thank you for any help in advance.

[fandoms8]

I'm suddenly having some issues with my personal.ini. First, it suddenly became impossible to download locked fics. I made a post on reddit and tried every suggestion and they all failed. I'll link the post here:https://www.reddit.com/r/Calibre/com...t=share_button

Eventually I just gave up but now all fics aren't downloading properly. I have include_images:false but now it isn't working either. I know it all worked in July so I don't know what changed. Is there an order to the personal.ini that I'm unaware of that makes it work? My current personal.ini is pasted below:

[www.archiveofourown.org]
username:XXXXXXXX
password:XXXXXXXX
is_adult:true
exclude_notes:authorheadnotes,chaptersummary,chapt erheadnotes,chapterfootnotes,authorfootnotes,inspi redlinks.
#use_view_full_work:true
include_subject_tags:
include_titlepage:false
include_images:false