[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[chrisric]

Why is the "Downloading metadata for stories" process not a background job like all the others?

When updating a large number of novels it can take 2hrs or more for the metadata to update and then the process becomes a background job.

Just curious because it makes calibre unusable during the process.

Might only be an issue for me on my super old Mac.

Thanks.

-Chris

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by chrisric

Why is the "Downloading metadata for stories" process not a background job like all the others?

When updating a large number of novels it can take 2hrs or more for the metadata to update and then the process becomes a background job.

Limitations and assumptions of the existing code.

Metadata download generally happens in foreground because there are several places where there may need to be GUI interaction. Reject list, changed story URL, collision with other existing books, user login required, etc.

There is an option for 'Background Metadata' you can check if you use 'Update EPUB Always' instead of Calibre Metadata only update. Most users who care about metadata enough to want it updated, also want it updated in the epub title page.

IMO, if you're launching enough updates at once to take hours, you're doing too many at once. (Unless it's because of deliberately large slow_down_sleep_time.)

[jherazob]

Quick heads up in case you missed it: Flaresolverr has FINALLY a fix/PR to restore the Image Download Feature, and they directly name FanFicFare on the comment, i imagine the next release will have it, soon FF.net downloads will again have covers!

[applegaa]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

New Test Version Posted

2025-11-13
- adapter_royalroadcom: New status Inactive

Sorry I didn't get a chance to test it sooner, but it appears to be working as expected.

Thank you!

- Andrew

[DBK]

Trying to download from AO3 via FanFicFare, trying to update some anthologies of single chapter stories. I keep getting an error saying I need to put my login data in my personal.ini. But its already in the ini. It only seems to be an issue witht the fics with the blue lock icon next to the title. I am running the most recent beta that was posted on this thread. My ini is the following. [archiveofourown.org]
#is_adult:true
always_login:true
use_archiveofourown_gay:true
#username:XXXXXXXX
#password:XXXXXXXX

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by DBK

Trying to download from AO3 via FanFicFare, trying to update some anthologies of single chapter stories. I keep getting an error saying I need to put my login data in my personal.ini. But its already in the ini. It only seems to be an issue witht the fics with the blue lock icon next to the title. I am running the most recent beta that was posted on this thread. My ini is the following. [archiveofourown.org]
#is_adult:true
always_login:true
use_archiveofourown_gay:true
#username:XXXXXXXX
#password:XXXXXXXX

Beginning a line with # indicates it is commented out and ignored.

[PeterT]

Originally Posted by DBK

Trying to download from AO3 via FanFicFare, trying to update some anthologies of single chapter stories. I keep getting an error saying I need to put my login data in my personal.ini. But its already in the ini. It only seems to be an issue witht the fics with the blue lock icon next to the title. I am running the most recent beta that was posted on this thread. My ini is the following. [archiveofourown.org]
#is_adult:true
always_login:true
use_archiveofourown_gay:true
#username:XXXXXXXX
#password:XXXXXXXX

You realize that the # sign at the start of the line comments out the value?

[DBK]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Beginning a line with # indicates it is commented out and ignored.

Ok but its now just keeps asking for my login information. Even when I enter it, I keep getting a window for it. Do I need ##?

[DBK]

Originally Posted by DBK

Ok but its now just keeps asking for my login information. Even when I enter it, I keep getting a window for it. Do I need ##?

Its saying it cannot login with my user info even though its correct?

[theducks]

Originally Posted by DBK

Its saying it cannot login with my user info even though its correct?

once you uncomment the line, did you replace the xxxx's with the correct values?

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by DBK

Its saying it cannot login with my user info even though its correct?

Not logging in when you manually enter user/pass too is more likely to indicating blocking by the site.

That's been discussed many times. See also https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFa...oblematicSites

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2025-11-28
- adapter_literotica: Get chapters from JSON fetch for #1283 (no current examples)

[WinterPhoenix]

I'm trying to figure out whether there's a way to display the number of new chapters a fic has received since I last marked it as read.

I already know how to display the total number of chapters using a custom column, but what I'd really like is something like “chapters updated since last read.” I've got something working with a custom column built from the chapters column and one that stores the number of chapters that a book had when I marked it as read, but that takes some manual input.

Is there a built-in way to do this?

[JimmXinu]

Not currently.

I wonder if you could use Action Chains to make a one-step 'Mark Read' action that copied 'current chapter count' to your 'read chapter count' column (and call FFF's Mark Read, etc).

If you're talking about FFF's mark_new_chapters:true feature, I might be able to add a metadate entry for the number of chapters marked '(new)'.

But words_added is the closest existing FFF feature. If you have log page turned on, and it includes numWords, words_added will contain the difference between numWords now and last recorded in numWords before update. But that won't be 'unread' words, just added in last update.

[WinterPhoenix]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Not currently.

I wonder if you could use Action Chains to make a one-step 'Mark Read' action that copied 'current chapter count' to your 'read chapter count' column (and call FFF's Mark Read, etc).

If you're talking about FFF's mark_new_chapters:true feature, I might be able to add a metadate entry for the number of chapters marked '(new)'.

The mark_new_chapters feature is how I'm currently tracking new chapters, so that would be helpful, save for the fact that it would count any chapters in the first download as not new when I haven't read them. I'm currently using action chains to bookmark (record the current number of chapters) books when I finish them, but changing that to also mark things read through Fanficfare isn't something I had thought to do.