[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[JimmXinu]

Multi-reply

Originally Posted by whiteowl

It has an image in the first post (threadmark) and that image was used as a book cover (epub target).

Working as intended. Xenforo sites didn't used to have dedicated cover images and it was common practice for a cover image to be the first image in the story. And still is for some sites.

You can disable that behavior in personal.ini.

[epub]
## If set, the first image found will be made the cover image.  If
## keep_summary_html is true, any images in summary will be before any
## in chapters.
make_firstimage_cover:false

Originally Posted by MPTSakurada

I'd like to be able to add `page-progression-direction="rtl"` to the spine element in the opf for certain sites, is there a personal.ini option to do this?

That's something I should be able to add, but not until next week. Ask again if I haven't said anything by Wednesday Dec 31.

Originally Posted by whiteowl

Another wish for xenoforum downloads.

- Include poster's name as a chapter author for Omake/SideStory chapters.

FFF used to do that, then XF2 stopped listing the author in the threadmarks list. I'm not aware of any useful list where FFF could get the author per threadmark without basically fetching every post again every update.

But I'll look into it if you can point one out.

[Hlord369]

Hey, I used the Fanficfare plugin to download an Ao3 story with embedded images. But then it updated with new chapters, so I used the update function, and it moved the story up the list of most recent books in Calibre, leaving it out of order with the other stories in the series. What should I do to keep this from happening going forward/fix the order besides just downloading the stories all over again?

[JimmXinu]

There are multiple possible answers. My go-to would be to just sort by Calibre's Series column.

You can order your library by the Published date column, that should be populated in the order the author initially published each story rather than last updated.

You could add a custom 'added to library' column to your library that get populated only on initital download. Similar to Published, but specific to you.

If what you actually mean is that the author changed the order of the series and now your Series column doesn't match for those books, you can (in order of severity):

Use Manage Series plugin to fix the series for those books in Calibre's series column.
Use FFF 'Update Calibre Metadata only' mode on all books in that series to fetch metadata and update it.
Use FFF 'Update EPUB Always' mode on all books in that series to fetch metadata and update it both in Calibre and on the books' title pages.

[DNSB]

If the date added is not changing but the date modified is, you can try using the JobSpy plugin to reset the date modified to the date added.

[whiteowl]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

FFF used to do that, then XF2 stopped listing the author in the threadmarks list. I'm not aware of any useful list where FFF could get the author per threadmark without basically fetching every post again every update.

But I'll look into it if you can point one out.

Here is a link to a post marked with "Apocrypha" tag: https://forums.spacebattles.com/thre...post-117439295
The post itself has a poster name on left of the text.

So I am expecting to see in the book:

Apocrypha - An innocuous question
by fuzzy_logic9

I have one final omake for you all.
...

[JimmXinu]

Ah. I assumed from your previous post you were still talking about the ToC.

Given the way FFF's update and output customization work, I can prepend the post author to the chapter text, but not embed it in the chapter title.

That would put it after chapter title--IE, whatever chapter_start is configured. And without the benefit of being customizable itself except by CSS.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2025-12-29
- base_xenforo2forum_adapter: Add include_nonauthor_poster option
- adapter_storiesonlinenet: Improve inject_chapter_title for #1294
- writer_epub: Add <spine page-progression-direction=rtl> option as page_progression_direction_rtl

Set include_nonauthor_poster:true per site/story/default as you like for whiteowl's request.

adapter_storiesonlinenet inject_chapter_title now has better support for single chapter stories.

Set page_progression_direction_rtl:true per epub/site:epub/story as you like for MPTSakurada's request.

[miazaz]

I've been getting an odd error when I try to pull from Ao3, but it's not a server error or anything. It comes back as

TypeError: expected string or bytes-like object, got 'bool'

. I tried searching for any info on this but couldn't find anything. I also tried uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin, but that didn't correct it, either. It had been working perfectly fine, and it was within the same session that it first errored out. Calibre has been restarted several times since then of course and still has the error.

Attached is the debug-log. Thank you in advance for any advice you might have

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by miazaz

I've been getting an odd error when I try to pull from Ao3, but it's not a server error or anything. It comes back as

TypeError: expected string or bytes-like object, got 'bool'

.

From that trace, it looks like something in personal.ini not parsing correctly?

Can you provide the full debug log to show more context of when it happens? Or the 'Safe' copy of your personal.ini?

[texasnightowl]

Originally Posted by steltek

I've been seeing the same thing intermittently for the last 3 days on AO3, most recently about 5 minutes ago. Have also had a few "page not found" errors, though these were able to be resolved by force reloading the page in the web browser.

As an FYI, I got a "Shields are Up" captcha when attempting the report the problem so it is entirely possible that AO3 is dealing with either an onslaught of AI training bots or yet another extended DDOS attack (or both, as one may mimic the other).

Hey, thanks for responding. Yeah, it seems to come and go. Sometimes it is fine and other times not so much. So you could be right.

[miazaz]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

From that trace, it looks like something in personal.ini not parsing correctly?

Can you provide the full debug log to show more context of when it happens? Or the 'Safe' copy of your personal.ini?

Thank you so much for the response! That was indeed the issue. I forgot I had tried to override the extratags default setting, since I don't want the FanFiction tag added (or need any additional ones at all, preferably) and didn't think it would accept a blank.

[MPTSakurada]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

New Test Version Posted

2025-12-29
- base_xenforo2forum_adapter: Add include_nonauthor_poster option
- adapter_storiesonlinenet: Improve inject_chapter_title for #1294
- writer_epub: Add <spine page-progression-direction=rtl> option as page_progression_direction_rtl

Set include_nonauthor_poster:true per site/story/default as you like for whiteowl's request.

adapter_storiesonlinenet inject_chapter_title now has better support for single chapter stories.

Set page_progression_direction_rtl:true per epub/site:epub/story as you like for MPTSakurada's request.

Thanks for getting that added so quickly! I've had a quick test and it seems to work perfectly like I wanted.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by miazaz

Thank you so much for the response! That was indeed the issue. I forgot I had tried to override the extratags default setting, since I don't want the FanFiction tag added (or need any additional ones at all, preferably) and didn't think it would accept a blank.

I would still like to see what was wrong so I can provide better error reporting in future

[ownedbycats]

Question: On AO3, the tags like Gen, F/M, M/M, they're merged with regular tags into Genres. How do I make it go to beginning of Genres on title page?

[JimmXinu]

I believe those are put in ao3categories when not 'Gen'.

You'd need to play with changing include_in_genre and keep_in_order_X to try and get them at the beginning of genre. Not sure it would work even then.