[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare - Page 584

ownedbycats · 07-27-2023, 04:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tharos

Thank you.

Another question. In AO3, the characters often have the fandom attached to their names. Example: Perenelle Flamel (Harry Potter).
Is it possible to automatically delete the (Harry Potter) in the names?
So far I have solved this via replace_metadata and changed each name individually.

I use this, adding fandoms as needed. Note the formatting carefully, it's pretty easy to break it.

Code:

 characters=>\s*(\(Disney\)|\(Elder Scrolls\)|\(Fallout\)|\(How to Train Your Dragon\)|\(Mass Effect\)|\(Redwall\)|\(Skyrim\)|\(Watership Down\))$=>

JimmXinu · 07-27-2023, 05:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Code:

 characters=>\s*(\(Disney\)|\(Elder Scrolls\)|\(Fallout\)|\(How to Train Your Dragon\)|\(Mass Effect\)|\(Redwall\)|\(Skyrim\)|\(Watership Down\))$=>

Code:

 characters=>\s*\((Disney|Elder Scrolls|Fallout|How to Train Your Dragon|Mass Effect|Redwall|Skyrim|Watership Down)\)$=>

You can simplify a little bit by moving the escaped '\(' and '\)' outside instead of copying them every time. Makes it slightly less brittle, IMO.

chicleeblair · 07-27-2023, 11:28 PM

I figured out how to have characters in “&“ ships included while still not tagging them if they’re in “/“ ships and keeping “&” ships in my relationships column, and I’ll post the code tomorrow, but I had to share that I just realized where all of these weird “OOriginal Character(s)” Tags are coming from.

It’s fine. I’m deleting OOC tags, anyway. Once you’re writing fic, IMO the character is your character, and just because they’re different doesn’t mean they’re not in character, but…yeah, I should go in and fix some bracket placement. (It’s seeing OOC and applying the instructions for OC. Which, considering that I have a fair amount of “||” going on in that tag, it’s good to know it works.)

julo · 07-28-2023, 03:17 PM

slow_down_sleep_time:x
Is there information somewhere what x means (millisecond, second, minute, other) and when it is triggered (between: each story (for multi-story downloads), each chapter, other)?

Tharos · 07-28-2023, 04:21 PM

defaults.ini

## number of seconds to sleep between calls to the story site. May be
## useful if pulling large numbers of stories or if the site is slow.
## The actual sleep time used on each request is a random number
## between 0.5 and 1.5 times slow_down_sleep_time.
#slow_down_sleep_time:0.5

julo · 07-28-2023, 06:12 PM

@Tharos
Thanks

ownedbycats · 07-28-2023, 07:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Code:

 characters=>\s*\((Disney|Elder Scrolls|Fallout|How to Train Your Dragon|Mass Effect|Redwall|Skyrim|Watership Down)\)$=>

You can simplify a little bit by moving the escaped '\(' and '\)' outside instead of copying them every time. Makes it slightly less brittle, IMO.

Thanks. For some reason that never occured to me

JDesat · 07-29-2023, 11:53 AM

I know FFN has been a bitch for a while with cloudflare stuff, so I'm not really expecting a fix, but I want to know if I'm the only one this is happening with...
I've had no real problems downloading FFN stories (since I started loading the new chapter(s) and first chapter of the story manually), but just yesterday FFF has started failing on every single FFN chapter I try to download. I'm getting this "HTTP Error in FFF 'Page not found or expired in Browser Cache" for every story even though I haven't changed how I've been doing things.
Is this just me, or something new FFN is doing?

ownedbycats · 07-29-2023, 12:15 PM

See:
https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFa...g-errors--help

JDesat · 07-29-2023, 12:26 PM

Thanks for pointing me in that direction, but I think I figured it out and it was something on my end. I changed some settings with NordVPN and some part of the "Web Protection" was doing something that blocked things. At least that is my assumption since it worked once I turned that off.

ownedbycats · 07-29-2023, 12:28 PM

Ah yeah, VPNs tend to break things. I think Jim was something along the lines of "you're on your own if you use a VPN."

JimmXinu · 07-29-2023, 01:41 PM

Yep.

FYI, I'm going to have limited time online for a couple weeks. Next release will be delayed.

tectonictigress · 07-29-2023, 10:53 PM

I've used this plug in for several years, used to just download from fanfiction.net but switched to AO3 a few years back so haven't tried to download from fanfiction.net recently, tried today and am getting this error:

HTTP Error in FFF '403 Client Error: Forbidden for url

I tried following the steps for the BrowserCacheFeature, and updated my personal.ini to have this (with Username in the path being my actual username):

Quote:

[defaults]

is_adult:true
browser_cache_path:C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local \Google\Chrome\User Data\Profile 1\Cache\Cache_Data

[epub]

[fanfiction.net]
use_browser_cache:true

I hit ok, and can click on "edit personal.ini" again and see my changes still - however if I close out the configure window and re-open it, those changes are gone when I re-open the "edit persona.ini"

It's been awhile since I've messed with editing personal.ini, is there a save button or something I'm missing?

ownedbycats · 07-30-2023, 12:17 PM

You need to press "OK" in both the personal.ini editor and the Customize FanficFare window to save, I believe.

Hopefully not the case here, but:
personal.ini contents are saved in the library database. If you've been having any other issues with books going missing or metadata not changing as expected, this may indicate the DB is glitching out. Common causes of this are putting it on a NAS or inside cloud storage (Dropbox, GDrive, etc). SQLite databases do not like this, so keep your library on either a local drive or an external (non-networked) one.

I also recommend use_browser_cache_only:true alongside ]use_browser_cache. This prevents it from falliing back and will give you a better idea of whether the cache is actually failing or not (though the errors can be a bit tricky to read).

chicleeblair · 07-31-2023, 01:22 AM

When you install the test version does it automatically override your current plug-in, or do I need to enable it and change my toolbar? I just added it today, and when I went to change some stuff I didn’t see any new options, but I might not have been looking in the right place or I might have been using the old version.

Secondly, as sure as I am that this would be complicated, is it possible to use generate cover and personal.ini to specify which generate cover gets used for a specific category or even ship? I hate blank covers; the last time I did a major overhaul on my fanfic s was adding covers a few years ago. While I’ve been cleaning my library I find them but always in situations when there’s no chance to mark them. Occasionally they are truly blank which makes them easy enough to find and fix, but sometimes they’re from being download it on other EPUB sites whenever this plug-in wasn’t playing nicely with Ff.net and I didn’t know the caches stuff.

07-28-2023, 03:17 PM	#8749
julo Connoisseur Posts: 72 Karma: 12 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Pittsburgh area Device: prs-505,900,T2	slow_down_sleep_time slow_down_sleep_time:x Is there information somewhere what x means (millisecond, second, minute, other) and when it is triggered (between: each story (for multi-story downloads), each chapter, other)?

07-28-2023, 04:21 PM	#8750
Tharos Connoisseur Posts: 81 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: Pocketbook InkPad Color 3, Kindle Oasis 2, Moon+ Reader pro	defaults.ini ## number of seconds to sleep between calls to the story site. May be ## useful if pulling large numbers of stories or if the site is slow. ## The actual sleep time used on each request is a random number ## between 0.5 and 1.5 times slow_down_sleep_time. #slow_down_sleep_time:0.5 Last edited by Tharos; 07-28-2023 at 04:23 PM.

07-30-2023, 12:17 PM	#8759
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 11,571 Karma: 81412473 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	You need to press "OK" in both the personal.ini editor and the Customize FanficFare window to save, I believe. Hopefully not the case here, but: personal.ini contents are saved in the library database. If you've been having any other issues with books going missing or metadata not changing as expected, this may indicate the DB is glitching out. Common causes of this are putting it on a NAS or inside cloud storage (Dropbox, GDrive, etc). SQLite databases do not like this, so keep your library on either a local drive or an external (non-networked) one. I also recommend use_browser_cache_only:true alongside ]use_browser_cache. This prevents it from falliing back and will give you a better idea of whether the cache is actually failing or not (though the errors can be a bit tricky to read). Last edited by ownedbycats; 07-30-2023 at 12:36 PM.

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07-27-2023, 11:28 PM	#8748
chicleeblair Connoisseur Posts: 97 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2018 Device: iPad mini	I figured out how to have characters in “&“ ships included while still not tagging them if they’re in “/“ ships and keeping “&” ships in my relationships column, and I’ll post the code tomorrow, but I had to share that I just realized where all of these weird “OOriginal Character(s)” Tags are coming from. It’s fine. I’m deleting OOC tags, anyway. Once you’re writing fic, IMO the character is your character, and just because they’re different doesn’t mean they’re not in character, but…yeah, I should go in and fix some bracket placement. (It’s seeing OOC and applying the instructions for OC. Which, considering that I have a fair amount of “\|\|” going on in that tag, it’s good to know it works.)

07-28-2023, 06:12 PM	#8751
julo Connoisseur Posts: 72 Karma: 12 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Pittsburgh area Device: prs-505,900,T2	@Tharos Thanks

07-29-2023, 11:53 AM	#8753
JDesat Zealot Posts: 102 Karma: 32768 Join Date: Dec 2012 Device: Kobo Clara Colour	I know FFN has been a bitch for a while with cloudflare stuff, so I'm not really expecting a fix, but I want to know if I'm the only one this is happening with... I've had no real problems downloading FFN stories (since I started loading the new chapter(s) and first chapter of the story manually), but just yesterday FFF has started failing on every single FFN chapter I try to download. I'm getting this "HTTP Error in FFF 'Page not found or expired in Browser Cache" for every story even though I haven't changed how I've been doing things. Is this just me, or something new FFN is doing?

07-29-2023, 12:15 PM	#8754
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 11,571 Karma: 81412473 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	See: https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFa...g-errors--help

07-29-2023, 12:26 PM	#8755
JDesat Zealot Posts: 102 Karma: 32768 Join Date: Dec 2012 Device: Kobo Clara Colour	Thanks for pointing me in that direction, but I think I figured it out and it was something on my end. I changed some settings with NordVPN and some part of the "Web Protection" was doing something that blocked things. At least that is my assumption since it worked once I turned that off.

07-29-2023, 12:28 PM	#8756
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 11,571 Karma: 81412473 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	Ah yeah, VPNs tend to break things. I think Jim was something along the lines of "you're on your own if you use a VPN."

07-29-2023, 01:41 PM	#8757
JimmXinu Plugin Developer Posts: 7,304 Karma: 5007213 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Midwest USA Device: Kobo Clara Colour running KOReader	Yep. FYI, I'm going to have limited time online for a couple weeks. Next release will be delayed.

07-31-2023, 01:22 AM	#8760
chicleeblair Connoisseur Posts: 97 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2018 Device: iPad mini	When you install the test version does it automatically override your current plug-in, or do I need to enable it and change my toolbar? I just added it today, and when I went to change some stuff I didn’t see any new options, but I might not have been looking in the right place or I might have been using the old version. Secondly, as sure as I am that this would be complicated, is it possible to use generate cover and personal.ini to specify which generate cover gets used for a specific category or even ship? I hate blank covers; the last time I did a major overhaul on my fanfic s was adding covers a few years ago. While I’ve been cleaning my library I find them but always in situations when there’s no chance to mark them. Occasionally they are truly blank which makes them easy enough to find and fix, but sometimes they’re from being download it on other EPUB sites whenever this plug-in wasn’t playing nicely with Ff.net and I didn’t know the caches stuff.

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