[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[Hlord369]

Hey, can you get around the 525 error for Ao3 if you make/use a secondary account? And if you need to login to download a certain work, does the login name show up in the file in Calibre at all? I downloaded the latest FanFicFare version and it didn't seem to fix it.

[JimmXinu]

AO3 525 has been discussed at length here and elsewhere. I doubt very much that using a different account would make any difference.

FFF doesn't record login names anywhere, but it can appear in debug logs and background job output.

[vikarti]

hi, Jimm
it looks like there is issue with DeviantArt.

https://www.deviantart.com/jessrowle...t-I-1379455851 - downloads correctly

https://www.deviantart.com/nobody-ka...Suit-797169379 /
https://www.deviantart.com/jessrowle...-II-1381903999 /
https://www.deviantart.com/jessrowle...t-1-1389936135
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'NoneType' object is not subscriptable

[Loumaria]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

That's a bit vague. Do you mean in the same session? The same day? The same week? Only with different stories? If you download the same stories that got tags again later, do you not get tags? If you wait a few days, do you start getting them again?

What do you mean by tags, exactly? FFF's catgeory or genre? By default, the FFF include_subject_tags setting is used to populate Calibre's Tags with category, genre, and quotev site specific searchtags. Have you changed the configuration?

Can you provide some story URLs that exhibit the problem? And specifically point out what you see on the screen that you don't see in the download?

The few I've tried seemed fine.

I meant the tags listed under the summary. And it was the same day, like four hours later.

Adding searchtags to extra_valid_entries worked. I didn't know that is what they are called on quotev.

Problem solved.

Thank you!

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by vikarti

hi, Jimm
it looks like there is issue with DeviantArt.

https://www.deviantart.com/jessrowle...t-I-1379455851 - downloads correctly

https://www.deviantart.com/nobody-ka...Suit-797169379 /
https://www.deviantart.com/jessrowle...-II-1381903999 /
https://www.deviantart.com/jessrowle...t-1-1389936135
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'NoneType' object is not subscriptable

The failures are all login-required stories. They changed things a while ago to make logging in to more deviantart difficult.

This was previously reported in August 2026.

[ownedbycats]

For what it matters, no AO3 525s since 4.62.0.

Haven't changed any settings so Im guessing either something changed on serverside or retry_http_525_failures:true is actually doing something.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2026-10-11
- RoyalRoad: Handle email-click URLs in geturls, not adapter. For reasons. #1429
- adapter_fanficsme: Fix word count for site change. Closes #1433
- Plugin: avoid blocking the event loop #1430, thanks, logologist
- Plugin: Add modal dialog for imap/urls from page/series page fetches to allow safe threading re:#1430
- Plugin: Fix Anthology update for ad-hoc(no series URL) anthologies(broken by ini_snippets)

Should fix the RoyalRoad email notification problem.

Note there are two GUI changes here too:

• While fetching story metadata, a thread is used to keep the QT event loop active. So during the "Fetching metadata for stories" progress bar, Calibre shouldn't go to "App not responding" anymore. (#1430)
• Similar changes were made for getting URLs from imap, from web page, and from web page for series. But where as before, Calibre just locked up, I've added a modal dialog box. Again, Calibre shouldn't go to "App not responding" anymore.

[texasnightowl]

Just a comment about closed issue #1432 wrt literotica. I had a story that I had previously downloaded 5 chapters I was trying to update with the latest chapter (6) but only the first page of the newest chapter was downloading.

So I told it to overwrite instead of update. When I did that, all the chapters reverted to only the first page.

I then updated from 4.59 to 4.62 but again, still only the first page downloaded when updating or overwriting.

So, then like the commenter in #1432, I deleted the entry book record from Calibre and downloaded as if new. And that worked.

I don't have any other stories that are ongoing right now, so no others I can test. But I just wanted to share that I had the same experience as that user. I would have thought that just updated to 4.62 would have resolved the issue. Why it didn't and I had to delete the book completely, I don't know.

[JimmXinu]

It's unfortunate, but I just don't see a way to handle this better.

There really isn't any way for FFF to detect "this chapter only has one page should have more" in an existing epub for literotica, or any site. The same thing would happen if the author added more pages to an existing chapter.

I agree that doing 'Overwrite Always' with the new version should have worked.

In fact, I just installed FFF 5.49, downloaded a literotica story and confirmed only one page per chapter. Then after installing 4.62.0, I did an 'Overwrite Always' and confirmed each chapter then had all pages as expected.

[texasnightowl]

fair enough that maybe there isn't a good way to handle/detect. I just wanted to add a point of data to that closed issue report. (on github, can you comment on a closed issue?) maybe in future something will be figured out? but at least it is something to keep in the back of the mind if anyone else reports literotica issues, that more than one person had to delete because overwrite didn't work.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2026-10-13
- Fixing Unnew for #1434. Still has problems with unnewing if also preserved deleted

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by texasnightowl

fair enough that maybe there isn't a good way to handle/detect. I just wanted to add a point of data to that closed issue report. (on github, can you comment on a closed issue?) maybe in future something will be figured out? but at least it is something to keep in the back of the mind if anyone else reports literotica issues, that more than one person had to delete because overwrite didn't work.

So noted. But unless you have exact steps that can reproduce the problem and/or show a debug log of it happening, I don't have any ideas where to look.

Github should let you comment on closed FFF issues in general.

[texasnightowl]

in hindsight, I wish I had restarted in debug mode when overwrite wasn't working but...I just didn't think of it. oops.

[madame_newbie]

Hi, is there a way for me to extract multiple url in added books and have it automatically assigned to the identifier tab *without* my having to go turn update mode: update calibre metadata option for each one?

I recently downloaded some archived fics from archive.org and would like to be able to extract url and auto add to identifier instead of using fanficfare to download them or doing it manually.

I have the "Search Inside Ebooks for Story URL" turned on but it doesn't detect it (the formats are all txt files)

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by madame_newbie

I recently downloaded some archived fics from archive.org and would like to be able to extract url and auto add to identifier instead of using fanficfare to download them or doing it manually.

FFF doesn't.

But I believe that's the sort of thing [GUI Plugin] Extract EPUB Metadata is for.