[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[Clarkster]

Originally Posted by O_P_T

Strange, I was running 9.9 of calibre when I first noticed the bug.

I was running an earlier beta version of FFF (I installed it on June 5th. 2026).

When I noted the bug, I got the latest beta 4.58.14 and that didn't fix it.

I installed 9.10 of calibre this morning and still have the issue.

I even tried uninstalling FFF and installing the latest official release (4.58.0) and still have the issue.

I also have a laptop that has an older version of Calibre on it (v7.6) and, naturally, it did not work with its corresponding dated version of FFF. After I updated that version of Calibre with a recent test version of FFF (v4.58.14) it ended up with the same 1 page results as the current version; therefore, it looks suspiciously like LIT again did some change on their end.

[JimmXinu]

Oh hey, look at that--MR is not sending me notifications. Again.

Literotica site changed. Fixes are in the test version. See link in my sig below.

A '525 Server Error' on AO3 is possibly blocking, but may just be... a server error. Not usually something in FFF.

[Clarkster]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Oh hey, look at that--MR is not sending me notifications. Again.

Literotica site changed. Fixes are in the test version. See link in my sig below.

A '525 Server Error' on AO3 is possibly blocking, but may just be... a server error. Not usually something in FFF.

is v 4.58.14 the latest you were referencing here for the LIT fix or is there a newer version somewhere lagging? If so, v4.58.14 still gives only one page.

[JimmXinu]

I've opened issue #1378 on github and tagged @dbhmw, the dev who's been working it literotica adapter.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2026-06-27
- adapter_literotica: Fix for chapter pages. #1378, thanks dbhmw

[anyarozanova]

Hello! Tysm for your work on FanFicFare. It's been a huge help to me. Anyway I have created custom columns for hits & kudos. Currently they are set as Text, columns shown in the Tag browser. They are importing from AO3 with commas, but are not sorting as numbers. Is there a better way to set these columns up that allow me to sort by # of hits & kudos more easily? I am thinking I should have chosen a different Column type, but I'm not sure. Thank you!

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by anyarozanova

Hello! Tysm for your work on FanFicFare. It's been a huge help to me. Anyway I have created custom columns for hits & kudos. Currently they are set as Text, columns shown in the Tag browser. They are importing from AO3 with commas, but are not sorting as numbers. Is there a better way to set these columns up that allow me to sort by # of hits & kudos more easily? I am thinking I should have chosen a different Column type, but I'm not sure. Thank you!

Those should be integer type columns if you want to sort them numerically.

I'm not a custom column expert. I don't think you can change the type of existing columns?

I vaguely recall that there are probably ways to copy the existing columns to new int-type columns using search/replace?

Or if you populated an FFF 'Saved Metadata Field', you can change over with FFF's 'Update Metadata only from Saved Metadata Field'

Otherwise, I think could use composite custom column to create a numeric column from the text one? You'd have to keep both, though.

[texasnightowl]

I'm playing with how I want to handle category/fandoms with AO3 fics.

If I just route category to a custom column, ie. #universe, the categories/fandoms seem to populate it alphabetically instead of having the main fandom first. Which matters when I do my cover generation since I limit the fandoms to 2 on my cover and they might not end up being the primary fandoms.

So, I was thinking that instead I would setup 2 columns...fandom1 and fandom2 and route the first 2 category entries to those. I know there is a list function from a little earlier in this thread where it was used with ships...firstship_LIST for example. So using that, I can grab the first category entry. But...I am not good with code and so I don't know how to change the syntax to get the 2nd entry in a list?

So...if this gets the first entry, how do I adjust it to get the 2nd entry?

add_to_extra_valid_entries:,firstuni,seconduni
include_in_firstuni:category
include_in_seconduni:category

keep_in_order_firstuni:true
keep_in_order_seconduni:true

add_to_replace_metadata:
# grab the first entry
 firstuni_LIST=>^([^,]+).*$=>\1
#how to grab the 2nd entry?
 seconduni_LIST=> ?????HELP????

custom_columns_settings:
 firstuni=>fandom1
 seconduni=>fandom2

Am I asking this right? Or am I even thinking about this right?

edit: I do go back and look at: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...ostcount=11853

and I see the bit about removing the first entry, but I want seconduni to be only the second item in the list, not the 2nd and 3rd and 4th?

[texasnightowl]

Well...self updating.

1. I'm doing some more testing because on a couple of samples right now, category=>#universe IS sorting the way I want it even though I swear it was not doing so earlier. so...I'll do more testing.

2. I did add columns fandom1 and fandom2 and I think I solved this myself by just adding the first line to grab the first entry at the end but for the 2nd value. so I have this and it is feeding my new fandom1 and fandom2 columns the way I want.

add_to_replace_metadata:
# Only first entry
 firstuni_LIST=>^([^,]+).*$=>\1
# Only later entries
# first clear if no commas.
 seconduni_LIST=>^[^,]+$=>
# Now remove first entry and comma
 seconduni_LIST=>^[^,]+,(.*)$=>\1
# rerun command to get first entry?
 seconduni_LIST=>^([^,]+).*$=>\1

[JimmXinu]

If it works, it works.

You could consolidate these two lines:

# Now remove first entry and comma
 seconduni_LIST=>^[^,]+,(.*)$=>\1
# rerun command to get first entry?
 seconduni_LIST=>^([^,]+).*$=>\1

...into one:

# Now remove first entry and third+
 seconduni_LIST=>^[^,]+,([^,]+)(,.*)?$=>\1

It works in regex101.com, but I didn't check in FFF.

[JimmXinu]

New Version Released

Version 4.59.0 - 2026-07-01
- Change urlunparse() to urljoin() #1377
- browsercache_firefox2: Fix for Firefox 1.53.0b2 Beta Change
- base_otw_adapter: Fix Series name masked using flaresolverr #1370
- base_xenforo2forum_adapter: Change \n\n in forum tags to ' ' like like 'Worm\n\n(Wildbow (Author))'
- base_otw_adapter: Better reporting of get token failure #1370
- fetcher_flaresolverr_proxy: Strip wrapper HTML from JSON responses. See #1370
- adapter_ficbooknet: enable replace_text_formatting for epub output #1368, thanks trousev!
- Fix for PI's 'pass calibre columns into FanficFare' broken by 270e01c
- adapter_literotica: Raise StoryDoesNotExist when redirected to home page. Closes #1365
- adapter_literotica: Fix for site changes #1364, #1360, #1372, #1374, #1378 -- Many thanks dbhmw!
- New site: sofurry.com, thanks dbhmw!
- New site: pmdfanfiction.com, thanks ndpereyra!
- adapter_ficbooknet: Fixes for site changes.
- Add retry_failedtoload_images option
- PI: Don't throw notifications when doing show_message()
- PI: INI Snippets
- PI: Prefill Add Reject URLs dialog from clipboard and allow ctrl-enter
- Add OTW story note labels config #1347
- Improve continue_on_chapter_error_try_limit exceeded reporting
- Chrome browsercache_sqldb added, but cannot read cache while browser is open. See #1341
- adapter_fanficauthorsnet: Domains changed from .nsns to -nsns
- Include genre/category in defaults.ini when include_in_X for extragenres/extracategories

[Clem2605]

Hey!

I hadn't used FFF in a month and I just discovered the new INI Snippets, it's genius! Thank you so much!

I was thinking about using it to switch between using ao3.gay and the browser cache when I have some locked fics, but I wanted to check with you to see if I understand the syntax, that it's not going to interact with the rest of my INI.

So if I understood the documentation correctly, I have to add the site section bit and then add my code after the [overrides] part? Would those two snippets be the correct ones?

[archiveofourown.org]
use_archiveofourown_gay:true

and

[archiveofourown.org]
use_basic_cache:true
use_browser_cache:true
use_browser_cache_only:true
open_pages_in_browser:true

And I would have to comment out those in my personnal.ini, that's it?
Or could I leave use_archiveofourown_gay:true there and just overrides with the browser cache when needed? (I'm pretty sure the logic wouldn't check out, but my understanding of it is a bit blurry)

And side question, would using my identifier & password in a snippet be a, hum, intelligent thing to do? I'm guessing it's no more dangerous than in the ini settings, but I'm checking just in case...

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Clem2605

And I would have to comment out those in my personnal.ini, that's it?
Or could I leave use_archiveofourown_gay:true there and just overrides with the browser cache when needed? (I'm pretty sure the logic wouldn't check out, but my understanding of it is a bit blurry)

Either would be fine.

An INI snippet is effectively the same as appending the snippet to the end of personal.ini. And later sections/settings overwrite earlier ones.

(Which means, for example, if you put an add_to_X in INI snippet, it will overwrite any add_to_X in the same section in personal.ini instead of adding.)

Originally Posted by Clem2605

And side question, would using my identifier & password in a snippet be a, hum, intelligent thing to do? I'm guessing it's no more dangerous than in the ini settings, but I'm checking just in case...

No difference. FFF doesn't encrypt or obfuscate either and they're stored in the same DB.

[Clem2605]

Thank you for your answer!!

In an unrelated ask, I had a few questions about anthologies:

I saw that the plugin no longer added the status to the tags automatically, (thank you for this by the way!) but it made me realize that while WIP anthologies on ao3 always get their status marked as 'In-Progress', but the completed ones get nothing? It's not big, and I could fix it with action chain, but can it be fixed?

A bigger ask is: Could it be possible to be able to populate the saved metadata column with the concatenated values of 'saved metadata' for each story in the anthology? I know FFF would not be able to use it. It would be purely to save the individual data for myself in case those stories are deleted (and maybe use it in case I ever want to unmerge the anthology, but it would be a real rare edge case).

Also, I had a setting to center the title of each anthology title (except the first) in the description, but it doesn't work anymore, and I can't find where it was? I can't even remember if it was in FFF, but I couldn't find it in the EpubMerge settings, can anyone here point me in the right direction?

Thank you for your time!!

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Clem2605

I saw that the plugin no longer added the status to the tags automatically, (thank you for this by the way!) but it made me realize that while WIP anthologies on ao3 always get their status marked as 'In-Progress', but the completed ones get nothing? It's not big, and I could fix it with action chain, but can it be fixed?

I don't remember changing anything about that, but that doesn't mean anything. When did this happen? Can you quote/link a post here about it?

And please provide example URL(s) for completed series..

Originally Posted by Clem2605

A bigger ask is: Could it be possible to be able to populate the saved metadata column with the concatenated values of 'saved metadata' for each story in the anthology? I know FFF would not be able to use it. It would be purely to save the individual data for myself in case those stories are deleted (and maybe use it in case I ever want to unmerge the anthology, but it would be a real rare edge case).

I'll think about it, but I'm leaning towards 'no'. Even though you say "I know FFF would not be able to use it", somebody would be asking for that 15 minutes later.

I'd be more inclined to store all the metadata somewhere in epub. I've just never found anywhere that I was confident wouldn't be messed with by something.

Originally Posted by Clem2605

Also, I had a setting to center the title of each anthology title (except the first) in the description, but it doesn't work anymore, and I can't find where it was? I can't even remember if it was in FFF, but I couldn't find it in the EpubMerge settings, can anyone here point me in the right direction?

No idea. Search and replace maybe? Or Calibre CSS?

FFF puts '<p><b>' tags around the titles in anthology desc. For me at least, Calibre has magically changed those to '<p style="font-weight: bold">' instead when I Edit metadata in library. And Calibre has discarded any class attributes I try to add.