[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[ninjadudedxp]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Unfortunately, no.

Calibre doesn't have any mechanism for GUI plugins to be automatically activated. Both calling for updates and the 'proceed to update library' dialog need GUI interaction.

I believe that some plugins allow for bypassing the 'proceed to update' dialog, but last I heard, that is Calibre's official way of protecting the library from multiple actions overwriting each other and should not be skipped.

Thats what i thought, CLI Docker is not really clear on how to enable autoupdates. was able to download books just fine just no idea how to schedule updates.

[ownedbycats]

@JimmXinu - Calibre 6.16 adds a 'recycle bin' in the right-click of delete menu. After updating a fic, the old versions appear under the 'formats' tab.

Don't know if there's any way around this, and personally don't think this behaviour needs to be turned off as most users probably won't be poking around in there. (Plus it may be useful in case of glitches or user errors.) But I thought you should know in case you think otherwise.

EDIT: Also, a quick test (and glance at hidden .caltrash folder in library folder) it seems it doesn't keep multiple copies, so a user won't end up with a half-dozen slightly differing versions.

[JimmXinu]

I don't think FFF needs to do anything special about this. We'll have to watch for issues.

Tech Details:

Spoiler:

FFF uses the Calibre APIs to remove formats (db.remove_format()) and books (actions['Remove Books'].do_library_delete()).

FFF does db.remove_format() before adding the updated epub (or other downloaded format) and 'Remove New Chapter marks' specifically so the prior version ends up in system trash.

If a user updates a book with FFF and then restores the removed format from Trash, it will not restore the prior metadata in the library. It would be equivalent to doing 'Update Calibre Metadata Only'.

I'm a bit surprised--as I recall, Kovid had previously not wanted a trash can in Calibre. And I don't find any discussion of it here in MR, in the bug tracker or in github. I wonder what changed his mind?

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

I don't think FFF needs to do anything special about this. We'll have to watch for issues.

Tech Details:

Spoiler:

FFF uses the Calibre APIs to remove formats (db.remove_format()) and books (actions['Remove Books'].do_library_delete()).

FFF does db.remove_format() before adding the updated epub (or other downloaded format) and 'Remove New Chapter marks' specifically so the prior version ends up in system trash.

If a user updates a book with FFF and then restores the removed format from Trash, it will not restore the prior metadata in the library. It would be equivalent to doing 'Update Calibre Metadata Only'.

I'm a bit surprised--as I recall, Kovid had previously not wanted a trash can in Calibre. And I don't find any discussion of it here in MR, in the bug tracker or in github. I wonder what changed his mind?

Not sure. I seem to recall someone making a request either here on MR or on Launchpad, but hadn't been paying much attention to it.

There is one discussion, but more on how to disable it entirely:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=353478

[ownedbycats]

Calibre 6.16 also adds an extra data folder inside the book folder. If I store a cover image in there, can force_cover_image use a relative path, or do I need to use the full path?

If the latter is the case I'd have to take some measures against the author's name changing.

EDIT: It will also be useful for keeping old versions of fanfics

[JimmXinu]

force_cover_image hasn't been changed, so no.

force_cover_image and default_cover_image share code that expects a file:// URL rather than a file pathname. I don't think relative paths will work.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

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I'm a bit surprised--as I recall, Kovid had previously not wanted a trash can in Calibre. And I don't find any discussion of it here in MR, in the bug tracker or in github. I wonder what changed his mind?

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[applegaa]

I am struggling with an issue with ScribbleHub and my Google skills are failing me.

ScribbleHub lists both genre and tags for a story. The ScribbleHub adapter loads the tags into Category and Defaults includes genre in Subject Tags. This is the opposite of what I want. I want the story tags to be in the Tags column. This is easy enough, except that I also want the genres to be in the Category column, to match what I do with other sites. No matter what I've tried in personal.ini, I lose the actual tags and either end up with genre in both columns or just a lone "FanFiction" entry that I can't figure out how to get rid of. (Yes, I have a blank extratags: in there.)

So, my question is, how do I move the tags from category to subject tags before I overwrite category with the genre values?

- Andrew

[ownedbycats]

I'm not familiar too much with scribblehub, but check the defaults.ini include_in_* entries.

[JimmXinu]

applegaa, the word 'tags' is ambiguous, and metadata entries are not the same thing as what ends up in Calibre's Tags column, aka 'subject tags'. So I'm not 100% sure I know what you are saying. But I will make an attempt.

I think this does it:

[www.scribblehub.com]

# Remove genre & extratags from Calibre Tags.
include_subject_tags: category, characters, ships, status

# Add a custom column setting to the list for genre,
# flag 'r' for replace to overwrite more generic setting
add_to_custom_columns_settings:
 genre=>#yourcategorycol,r

If that doesn't help, please provide a concrete example with story URL (SFW please) and exactly which values you want and don't want where.

[ownedbycats]

Question:

'New only' on columns requires turning off to override. Is there an easier way I don't know of, or a similar option that populates only undefined columns?

[JimmXinu]

No, there isn't. I would suggest manually filling the field instead in those cases.

[applegaa]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

applegaa, the word 'tags' is ambiguous, and metadata entries are not the same thing as what ends up in Calibre's Tags column, aka 'subject tags'. So I'm not 100% sure I know what you are saying. But I will make an attempt.

I think this does it:

[www.scribblehub.com]

# Remove genre & extratags from Calibre Tags.
include_subject_tags: category, characters, ships, status

# Add a custom column setting to the list for genre,
# flag 'r' for replace to overwrite more generic setting
add_to_custom_columns_settings:
 genre=>#yourcategorycol,r

If that doesn't help, please provide a concrete example with story URL (SFW please) and exactly which values you want and don't want where.

I'm not sure how to even test this, as it only does half of what I want. Maybe...

I have already figured out how to move the metadata from one predefined variable to another. It's swapping the values that is failing as I either get two copies of one set or I get one set and a blank.


An example would be this URL:

https://www.scribblehub.com/series/6...isekai-litrpg/

The Details page on ScribbleHub has the following listed under Genre:

Action
Adventure
Comedy
Fantasy
Isekai
LitRPG
Slice of Life

It also has the following under Tags:

Alternate World
Dragons
Dwarfs
Elemental Magic
Elves
Female Protagonist
Game Elements
Game Ranking System
Legends
Level System
Magic
Monsters
Multiple POV
Multiple Realms
Overpowered Protagonist
Protagonist Strong from the Start

I have added a custom column in Calibre called Category which I map to the predefined Category metadata in the FanFicFare Custom Columns configuration tab.

Now, if I load this story using the default configuration, the Tags column in Calibre gets "Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Isekai, LitRPG, Slice of Life" (aka ScribbleHub Genre) while the Category column gets "Alternate World, Dragons, Dwarfs, Elemental Magic, Elves, Female Protagonist, Game Elements, Game Ranking System, Legends, Level System, Magic, Monsters, Multiple POV, Multiple Realms, Overpowered Protagonist, Protagonist Strong from the Start" (aka ScribbleHub Tags).

What I want is the opposite. I want the 7 entries that ScribbleHub calls Genre in the Category column and I want the 16 entries that ScribbleHub calls Tags in the Tags column.

- Andrew

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by applegaa

I'm not sure how to even test this, as it only does half of what I want. Maybe...
...
I have added a custom column in Calibre called Category which I map to the predefined Category metadata in the FanFicFare Custom Columns configuration tab.
...
What I want is the opposite. I want the 7 entries that ScribbleHub calls Genre in the Category column and I want the 16 entries that ScribbleHub calls Tags in the Tags column.

And you want that swap for all ScribbleHub stories, not just that one, right?

The personal.ini settings I gave before should do it, assuming you also checked the 'Allow custom_columns_settings from personal.ini to override' checkbox on the Custom Columns tab.

The GUI setting for your Category column would apply for most sites, and ScribbleHub would use the one in personal.ini.

Is that the only site you use? Because it looks to me like you are the one who has a non-standard definition of 'Genre', not ScribbleHub.

[applegaa]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

And you want that swap for all ScribbleHub stories, not just that one, right?

The personal.ini settings I gave before should do it, assuming you also checked the 'Allow custom_columns_settings from personal.ini to override' checkbox on the Custom Columns tab.

The GUI setting for your Category column would apply for most sites, and ScribbleHub would use the one in personal.ini.

Is that the only site you use? Because it looks to me like you are the one who has a non-standard definition of 'Genre', not ScribbleHub.

Yes, I want to use it for all of ScribbleHub. I have other sites that use categories and tags rather than genres and tags, so I'd have to swap the values on more sites if I standardized with the ScribbleHub default.

I apologize for not properly testing your suggestion before responding. Looking back through my failed attempts to the ones where I tried using the custom columns directly, I was missing the ",r" so I'm guessing that's why my attempts failed and I thought I had already tried what you suggested.

Is there someplace where these flags are documented? Even now, with the full knowledge of the correct answer, my Google searches have only returned one post where you told somebody else to use "r" instead of "a" on one line. From that I now know there are at least 2 flags and I'm pretty sure the "a" is for add...


TL;DR: It worked. Thanks!

- Andrew