[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[JimmXinu]

We have a report that fictionhunt.com doesn't appear to require login anymore for any stories.

Can anyone who reads that site confirm or deny?

[SilentShadow123]

Please help. I recently updated FanFicFare, and now anytime I try to download and add books using it, the epubs are not being created and it is not asking me to approve the updates and additions after it finishes fetching the metadata for the fanfics that I link in. All I'm seeing is that the jobs are being completed when I add links for fanfics, and the metadata is being fetched but it is not letting me make epubs or anything readable. What I'm seeing in the last output once the job completes is this:

(This is just an example of how it appears for one of my jobs fetching metadata)

FFF: DEBUG: 2021-12-23 00:36:37,781: adapter_archiveofourownorg.py(410): Getting chapter text for: https://archiveofourown.org/works/15...apters/5044688 index: 46
FFF: DEBUG: 2021-12-23 00:36:37,783: adapter_archiveofourownorg.py(420): USE view_full_work
FFF: INFO: 2021-12-23 00:36:37,806: writer_epub.py(360): Saving EPUB Version 2.0

FFF: INFO: 2021-12-23 00:36:38,274: calibre_plugins.fanficfare_plugin.jobs(142):
Download Results:
Add https://archiveofourown.org/works/2752568 Download epub completed, 1 chapters.
Add https://archiveofourown.org/works/1546481 Download epub completed, 47 chapters.
FFF: INFO: 2021-12-23 00:36:38,275: calibre_plugins.fanficfare_plugin.jobs(166):

Add
https://archiveofourown.org/works/2752568
https://archiveofourown.org/works/1546481

[MrKonan]

Hi, Happy Holidays to you all. It looks like storiesonline/finestories have changed something on their back end. I'm getting login failed and a login prompt pops up.

Here's a section of the debug log.(Sorry for the long text)

(edit: 12/25/2021: Seems to be working today.. sorry for the post.)

FF: DEBUG: 2021-12-24 09:52:00,437: calibre_plugins.fanficfare_plugin.fff_plugin(1116) : FanFicFare v4.8.0
FFF: INFO: 2021-12-24 09:52:00,462: calibre_plugins.fanficfare_plugin.prefs(217): Attempting to read settings from predecessor--FFDL
FFF: INFO: 2021-12-24 09:52:00,462: calibre_plugins.fanficfare_plugin.prefs(222): Using default settings
FFF: DEBUG: 2021-12-24 09:52:00,471: configurable.py(1028): use_browser_cache:
FFF: DEBUG: 2021-12-24 09:52:00,471: configurable.py(1042): use_basic_cache:true
FFF: DEBUG: 2021-12-24 09:52:00,471: adapter_storiesonlinenet.py(149): URL: https://storiesonline.net/s/26490
FFF: DEBUG: 2021-12-24 09:52:00,471: fetcher.py(234):
========== MISS (GET) BasicCache
https://storiesonline.net/s/26490:i
FFF: DEBUG: 2021-12-24 09:52:00,472: fetcher.py(462):
---------- REQ (GET) RequestsFetcher
https://storiesonline.net/s/26490:i
FFF: DEBUG: 2021-12-24 09:52:00,660: fetcher.py(469): response code:200
FFF: DEBUG: 2021-12-24 09:52:00,660: fetcher.py(156): random sleep(1.00-3.00):2.11
FFF: DEBUG: 2021-12-24 09:52:02,772: requestable.py(50): Encoding:utf8
FFF: DEBUG: 2021-12-24 09:52:02,772: adapter_storiesonlinenet.py(108): Will now login to URL (https://storiesonline.net/sol-secure/login.php) as (xxxxxxxxx@gmail.com)
FFF: DEBUG: 2021-12-24 09:52:02,772: fetcher.py(234):
========== MISS (GET) BasicCache
https://storiesonline.net/sol-secure/login.php
FFF: DEBUG: 2021-12-24 09:52:02,772: fetcher.py(462):
---------- REQ (GET) RequestsFetcher
https://storiesonline.net/sol-secure/login.php
FFF: DEBUG: 2021-12-24 09:52:02,958: fetcher.py(469): response code:200
FFF: DEBUG: 2021-12-24 09:52:02,958: fetcher.py(156): random sleep(1.00-3.00):1.74
FFF: DEBUG: 2021-12-24 09:52:04,701: requestable.py(50): Encoding:utf8
FFF: DEBUG: 2021-12-24 09:52:04,709: fetcher.py(234):
========== MISS (POST) BasicCache
https://login.wlpc.com/index.php
FFF: DEBUG: 2021-12-24 09:52:04,709: fetcher.py(462):
---------- REQ (POST) RequestsFetcher
https://login.wlpc.com/index.php
FFF: DEBUG: 2021-12-24 09:52:04,765: fetcher.py(469): response code:200
FFF: DEBUG: 2021-12-24 09:52:04,765: fetcher.py(156): random sleep(1.00-3.00):1.97
FFF: DEBUG: 2021-12-24 09:52:06,735: requestable.py(50): Encoding:utf8
FFF: INFO: 2021-12-24 09:52:06,735: adapter_storiesonlinenet.py(139): Failed to login to URL https://storiesonline.net/sol-secure/login.php as xxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com
FFF: WARNING: 2021-12-24 09:52:06,735: calibre_plugins.fanficfare_plugin.fff_plugin(1204) : Login Failed, Need Username/Password.

[ackomb]

Don't have the solution to your problem, but I do know that it's preferred you wrap you logs using the little hashtag button above the text box and place your log files in between. Someone who might be able to help will read it while and it will keep the main issue nice and clear.

It looks like this but without the space after the opening bracket.
[ CODE] ... [ /CODE]

[PeterT]

Actually using [spoiler] your log [/spoiler] works better

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[DNSB]

And my personal preference which is [spoiler][code] overly long chunk of text[/code][/spoiler]

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by SilentShadow123

Please help. I recently updated FanFicFare, and now anytime I try to download and add books using it, the epubs are not being created and it is not asking me to approve the updates and additions after it finishes fetching the metadata for the fanfics that I link in. All I'm seeing is that the jobs are being completed when I add links for fanfics, and the metadata is being fetched but it is not letting me make epubs or anything readable. What I'm seeing in the last output once the job completes is this:
...

The log posted appears to show a successful download.

Depending on your OS, Calibre's 'Proceed with updating' dialog can become obscured. At least, I've had trouble finding it in mac and linux vs my usual windows.

You might also try running Calibre in debug more to get more debug output.

As it is, I have no idea.

Originally Posted by MrKonan

Hi, Happy Holidays to you all. It looks like storiesonline/finestories have changed something on their back end. I'm getting login failed and a login prompt pops up.

Here's a section of the debug log.(Sorry for the long text)

(edit: 12/25/2021: Seems to be working today.. sorry for the post.)
...

Working fine for me. As I recall, storiesonline/finestories keeps track of how many stories you've read/downloaded recently. Perhaps you ran into a limit?

Originally Posted by DNSB

And my personal preference which is [spoiler][code] overly long chunk of text[/code][/spoiler]

[pjm13]

Hey, I'm really sorry for the dumb question, I am absolutely not tech-savvy and I've searched the internet up and down for a simple explanation for my problem. I've found some but nothing worked and I am sure I just missed something. I need a simple walk-through, if possible..

I have Calibre with the FFF plugin installed and I use it for AO3 only. Everything works fine now except for one thing: bookmarks.

1.) I'd like it to automatically pull the "bookmarked/not-bookmarked" status of the fic and put it in a custom column (for example "Do I have this bookmarked? Yes/No").
2.) I'd also like to display the total number of bookmarks a fic has in a custom column automatically, like I have with hits and kudos
3.) not bookmarks but I just remembered this: Is it possible to see chapters in a X\Y format? For example for completed fics 16/16, or WIPs 3/16, rather than just the absolute number of current chapters, like 16?

Could someone explain to me step by step what I need to do to make this happen? I've managed to have number of words, hits and kudos pulled automatically, I can see chapters and the completion status and all the dates. But bookmarks give me a headache.

-> basically what to I have to add to personal.ini, how exactly do I have to fill the custom column settings (lookup name, type, etc) and do I then have to make changes to the custom column tab in FFF?

Thanks so much!

[pjm13]

Hey, another question.

Is there a way to protect individual entries from being updated? I have some downloaded now deleted/privated fics as epubs from AO3 that I added to calibre, but the author is rewriting them and most likely un-privating them again in the future. I would like to keep those old versions as they are and add the newly edited fic as an entirely new entry.

Basically, can I right-click a fic and say "Do not allow any changes to this entry by updates" and then, when the supposedly same fic gets published again select to save it as kind of a duplicate but different entry?

Thank you!

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by pjm13

Hey, I'm really sorry for the dumb question, I am absolutely not tech-savvy and I've searched the internet up and down for a simple explanation for my problem. I've found some but nothing worked and I am sure I just missed something. I need a simple walk-through, if possible..
...

Tomorrow is 10 years since this plugin was first posted (under the older FFDL name). I'm sorry, but I just don't have the energy to do step-by-step very much anymore.

Here's an old post about ao3 bookmarks. Search for custom_columns_settings for how to use that feature.

Originally Posted by pjm13

Is there a way to protect individual entries from being updated?
...

FFF (and Calibre, and book readers in general) tend to assume that if a book has the same title and author, it's the same book.

What I do in such cases is change the title of the old book. New story with new storyUrl won't try to update it when the title is different.

If the author re-uses the same storyUrl, you also need to remove the identifer:url value with Calibre's Edit metadata on the old book.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by pjm13

Hey, another question.

Is there a way to protect individual entries from being updated? I have some downloaded now deleted/privated fics as epubs from AO3 that I added to calibre, but the author is rewriting them and most likely un-privating them again in the future. I would like to keep those old versions as they are and add the newly edited fic as an entirely new entry.

Basically, can I right-click a fic and say "Do not allow any changes to this entry by updates" and then, when the supposedly same fic gets published again select to save it as kind of a duplicate but different entry?

Thank you!

If you don't want two copies, the reject list is an option. Just be careful with the delete-on-reject option.

Otherwise, I change titles to e.g. Some Story (Old) and remove the url: identifier.

[torilaine]

Hello!

I recently used the Import List plugin and data-scraped my entire AO3 library for all of my fics’ metadata, which includes its URL, and made "empty" entries for all items. However, when I use the “Get story URLs from select book” option, it reports that no story URLs could be found in the select book.

Is there some way to instruct it to get the URL from the metadata, or is there something I’m missing entirely?

Thanks very much for any information/help!

(And many apologies if this has already been asked and I am just blind)

-Tori

[JimmXinu]

I've never used Import List, so I'm unfamiliar with it.

However, FFF should find the story URL if it's populated into Calibre's Identifiers field as a 'url:' type id. Look in the Calibre Edit metadata dialog for one of them in the 'Ids' field.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by torilaine

Hello!

I recently used the Import List plugin and data-scraped my entire AO3 library for all of my fics’ metadata, which includes its URL, and made "empty" entries for all items. However, when I use the “Get story URLs from select book” option, it reports that no story URLs could be found in the select book.

Is there some way to instruct it to get the URL from the metadata, or is there something I’m missing entirely?

Thanks very much for any information/help!

(And many apologies if this has already been asked and I am just blind)

That should work as long as you created the URL identifier for each book. And got the format correct. If it is there, I would suggest using FFF to add a story from AO3 and compare the identifier added that way to an identifier added using the Import List plugin. If the URL does not match, the FFF would not recognise the book as one it can fetch.

[ownedbycats]

If I am remembering correctly, I've previously had issues with manually-input AO3 urls that had chapters, e.g. /works/12345/chapters/12345. It may be something to check.