[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[texasnightowl]

Originally Posted by Atherton25

No, you click on the icon to open the webtoepub interface, click "Pack Epub" (assuming all the settings are already preloaded, like the timing previously mentioned) and it will download the whole story slowly. This works with other sites as well, such as scribblehub - though with scribblehub you still need flaresolverr for the table of contents page.

It works really well if you have a long fic you can just walk away for 10 minutes or so and come back then add it to FFF.

Edit: Also works well for updates, if there's more than a couple pages. You open the interface, uncheck the first page you don't want, scroll down to the last page you don't want, hold shift and click on it. This would say remove Chapters 2-20 and leave whatever is after that. So if you haven't updated a story for a while, you don't have to download what you have again, just the pages you don't.

Thanks! I will go add it to Firefox and give it a whirl! Thankfully most of my reading these days is on AO3, but still!

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2026-02-02
- Refactor metadata entry and settings name code a bit
- Remove Site: swi.org.ru No DNS for site.
- Make some metadata entries immutable
- adapter_adultfanfictionorg: Fixes for site changes #1305

[watani]

It looks like whatever change was made to the RoyalRoad plugin in 4.54.0 has broken all downloads from that website. It now shows an error along the lines of "Nonetype has no attribute 'startswith'".

Broken in both 4.54.0 and latest test version, working in 4.53.0 after downgrading.

Edit: Using Calibre plugin, Windows 10

[JimmXinu]

I'm not seeing that. Story URL? (SFW please)

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2026-02-02
- Refactor metadata entry and settings name code a bit
- Remove Site: swi.org.ru No DNS for site.
- Make some metadata entries immutable
- adapter_adultfanfictionorg: Fixes for site changes #1305
- adapter_fimfictionnet/adapter_royalroadcom: Better handling of cover image size fall back #1306

I still haven't seen it happen, but I speculate that watani's problem comes from either the story cover image being smaller than cover_min_size, or in cover_exclusion_regexp.

[fanfictioneer]

I get the NoneType startswith issue on all RoyalRoad stories I had. Example: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/12...petent-history

Found two issues
Line 280 - logger.debug("stars:(%s)"%self.story.getMetadata(' stars'))
and then line 292 - if self.setCoverImage(url,cover_url.replace('/covers-full/', '/covers-large/'))[0].startswith("failedtoload"):

Not sure why either of them would be None, but I added extra None checks to the second (and commented out the first), and it worked.

[watani]

Updated to latest test version and it seems like things are working again. I suspect it was Line 292 in the royalroad plugin as mentioned by fanfictioneer, which I've seen you've already fixed.

Edit: Since I noticed that royalroad was always downloading the low res version of the cover in the past, I had set FFF to globally never make covers for royalroad fics and instead I would manually download the high res cover for each new fic. This setting is probably why I encountered the issue and not you.

[MidnightRose]

Not really a big deal, but I've noticed that updating books to the new image URL format completely messes up the kindle reading progress markers. Any idea why that might be? Mostly just curious, because it seems strange.

[JimmXinu]

Dunno.

Converting from epub to azw3 in Calibre renames all the images to images/00001.jpeg, etc. And the order is neither the order they appear in the epub, nor the alphabetical order of the epub image file names.

I would speculate that it is different than before and maybe kindle is remembering a calculated hash for each file inside the azw3? I'm really just guessing.

[cia1413]

Originally Posted by MidnightRose

Not really a big deal, but I've noticed that updating books to the new image URL format completely messes up the kindle reading progress markers. Any idea why that might be? Mostly just curious, because it seems strange.

I have found that when my kindle forgets where it is in the book if you page forward only one time, then page back it snaps to where it should be. No idea why but it has worked for me like that for years.

[readerboy7]

I tend to get error messages when trying to grab AO3 fics (via the calibre plugin):

HTTP Error in FFF '525 Server Error: <none> for url: https://archiveofourown.org/works/45...=true'(525)

I suspect it is due to this but am not sure:

Originally Posted by FAQ

... and archiveofourown.org in particular, have been known to block people's IP address or refuse requests if they generate too much traffic

Note that I can use AO3 in my browser just fine, it's only an issue when trying to grab fics.

Is there a way to re-allow me to grab fics from AO3?

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by readerboy7

I tend to get error messages when trying to grab AO3 fics (via the calibre plugin):


I suspect it is due to this but am not sure:

Note that I can use AO3 in my browser just fine, it's only an issue when trying to grab fics.

Is there a way to re-allow me to grab fics from AO3?

See ProblematicSites wiki page.

use_archiveofourown_gay is what works most consistently for me.

## When set true, this setting causes the AO3 code in FFF to replace
## archiveofourown.org with archiveofourown.gay before every network
## request.  This does *not* change the story or chapter URLs saved by
## FFF, they will still be archiveofourown.org.

use_archiveofourown_gay:true

[HoppHagg]

Hello from Germany,

first of all I want to thank the developer of this excellent plugin.
It made my life much easier ;-)

I want to report an error while updating a book with new chapters from AO3:

If I update a story via GUI->Add new Chapters only, then I get an error like:
>0 good, 1 bad< and in the protocol it is listed as error with the comment 'ttf'.

If I select 'always overwrite', it works as expected.

This problem only occurs in plugin version 4.54 onwards, the previous version works just fine.

My calibre version is 9.1.0 on Windows 11 build 7705.

Thank you for your help in advance.

Marc

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by HoppHagg

If I update a story via GUI->Add new Chapters only, then I get an error like:
>0 good, 1 bad< and in the protocol it is listed as error with the comment 'ttf'.

If I select 'always overwrite', it works as expected.

I'm sorry, I don't understand.

Please provide:

1. A story URL (SFW) that exhibits the problem.
2. Attach a debug log -- Restart Calibre in debug mode (under Calibre Preferences dropdown), try the download, quit Calibre. It should open the debug log as a text file.

[belton180]

Hello

When updating multiple fics from sufficient velocity, all failed with the following error: Background Job Failed, see Calibre Jobs log.

After checking each fic one by one, only one fic remained with the error.

The URL is https://forums.sufficientvelocity.co...-quest.136754/ and attached is a copy of the debug log.

Thank you for the very useful plugin