[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[madame_newbie]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

FFF doesn't.

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

Thanks for the recommendation!

[Czarcasm]

Running into a few issues.

First, Ao3 stories are giving me the following error: (HTTP Error in FFF '403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://archiveofourown.gay/works/50...=true'(403))

Meanwhile, certain Spacebattles stories are asking for log in info, despite it being in the .ini. Even when I put the info in again, it keeps asking before finally giving the current error: (Failed to Login for URL: (https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/13012612/) with username: (Nei))

And I'm also getting emails to verify my spacebattles login when that happens

The only thing I changed in the .ini is putting in the log in info

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Czarcasm

Running into a few issues.

...

The only thing I changed in the .ini is putting in the log in info

It's not you that changed, it's the world.

AO3 is blocking as often as not these days. The .gay thing doesn't help anymore. I just use Browser Cache all the time for it. I just tried that story and had a 'Shields Up' page pop up first, so I'm reasonably confident it's just general blocking.

I got a similar page clicking that SB link, too. But in their case, they block all automated access to /posts/ URLs now, so we can't use /posts/ URLs as story URLs anymore. But because Reader mode is still working (for now), we can still use thread URLs.

[madame_newbie]

Is there a way to bypass this

"Browser Cache Failed to Load with error 'HTTP Error in FFF 'open_pages_in_browser_tries_limit exceeded for site (www.fanfiction.net), assuming site is off line until after next (Calibre) restart.'(428)"

Because it's rather tedious for me to restart calibre each time downloading fics from ff.net and the running into this problem.

Many thanks in advance.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by madame_newbie

Is there a way to bypass this

"Browser Cache Failed to Load with error 'HTTP Error in FFF 'open_pages_in_browser_tries_limit exceeded for site (www.fanfiction.net), assuming site is off line until after next (Calibre) restart.'(428)"

Because it's rather tedious for me to restart calibre each time downloading fics from ff.net and the running into this problem.

Many thanks in advance.

"Bypass" as in, make ffnet work better? No.

"Bypass" as in, manually reset the counter without restarting? Not as currently coded.

"Bypass" as in, make FFF not do that as often? Yes.

open_pages_in_browser_tries_limit is a setting that defaults to 6. You can set it higher in personal.ini.

But if you are getting 6 failures in a row often because of Cloudflare delays, I suggest increasing slow_down_sleep_time to give more time between requests.

Honestly, I put that in as a paranoia check. I didn't expect it come up except when you lose network or the site goes down during downloads.

Is this something that's a common problem for people?

[yeahyeahyeahno]

Good morning. With update 4.62.0, it resolved any errors I was getting for almost a week. Then the morning of 10/9, I got errors like the following on every single update or download in FFF from AO3 that I tried to do. By Sunday 10/11, it was working mostly again. The past two days have again now given persistent errors whenever I try to either update a fic or bring in any new ones (either just works or series).

HTTPSConnectionPool(host='archiveofourown.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /works/2519108/navigate?view_adult=true (Caused by ReadTimeoutError("HTTPSConnectionPool(host='archiv eofourown.org', port=443): Read timed out. (read timeout=60.0)"))
https://archiveofourown.org/works/2519108

or

Failed getting login token from token_dispenser.json

or

HTTP Error in FFF '525 Server Error: <none> for url: https://archiveofourown.org/works/91...=true'(525)

Is there anything new to work around this again? I've tried going back through the thread but am probably missing it.

[ownedbycats]

Is it possible to add the instructions to download a chapter range to the FAQ? I had to look up the instructions again when forgot.

EDIT: Also, was first/last_chapter removed? It was red in my personal.ini.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Is it possible to add the instructions to download a chapter range to the FAQ? I had to look up the instructions again when forgot.

EDIT: Also, was first/last_chapter removed? It was red in my personal.ini.

What do you suggest?

first/last_chapter are technically undocumented development features.

Although I suppose they've come up enough times now that they may as well become official.

[ownedbycats]

Probably something like "how do I download only specific chapters?" and then the answer quoted here

[madame_newbie]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

"Bypass" as in, make ffnet work better? No.

"Bypass" as in, manually reset the counter without restarting? Not as currently coded.

"Bypass" as in, make FFF not do that as often? Yes.

open_pages_in_browser_tries_limit is a setting that defaults to 6. You can set it higher in personal.ini.

But if you are getting 6 failures in a row often because of Cloudflare delays, I suggest increasing slow_down_sleep_time to give more time between requests.

Honestly, I put that in as a paranoia check. I didn't expect it come up except when you lose network or the site goes down during downloads.

Is this something that's a common problem for people?

Thanks I will do this. I only noticed this occurring especially if the link breaks and sometimes because ff.net is being weird by saying the work or chapter does not exist because it doesn't like its own links (ie: ff.net/work/1/title-of-fic - is borked but ff.net/work/1/ somehow works)

So I am going to just be extra vigilant with the links.

[JimmXinu]

Alpha Test Version Attached

2026-10-16
- Change how chapter metadata is stored in chapter files
- Fix mark new/unnew works with preserved chapters
- Update translations
- Add first_chapter/last_chapter to valid settings list.
- Fix numChapters for update_preserve_deleted_chapters

Also allows for ${preserved_chapter_mark} in chapter_title_X_pattern settings now:

chapter_title_def_pattern:${title} ${preserved_chapter_mark}
chapter_title_add_pattern:${number}. ${title} ${preserved_chapter_mark}
chapter_title_new_pattern:(new) ${title} ${preserved_chapter_mark}
chapter_title_addnew_pattern:${number}. (new) ${title} ${preserved_chapter_mark}

This version touches a lot of the epub update and unnew code. I've been using it for a couple days, but it's extensive enough I'm calling it 'alpha' rather than the usual test version.

If you choose to test this, please make backups. And let me know if you have problems.

[ernand]

Anyone having some weirdness with ao3??? I am literally having issues with a single story update, but no issues with anything else on ao3.

I got this when trying to update using cache:
Error | Unknown | Unknown | HTTP Error in FFF 'Page not found or expired in Browser Cache (see FFF setting browser_cache_age_limit)'(428) URL:'https://archiveofourown.org/works/92686911?view_adult=true'

The thing is, I literally just updated another Ao3 fic before and after this error, using and not using the cache method.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Probably something like "how do I download only specific chapters?" and then the answer quoted here

How can I get FanFicFare to not download all chapters of a story?

[ownedbycats]

Question: Is there a way to edit a specific chapter title with the personal.ini? I can just do it manually but would need to fix it with updates.