[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[tectonictigress]

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):

[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]

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]

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.

[theducks]

Test versions are just the plugin posted not in the first post,
OTOH
Post 1 gets scraped and a periodic notification appears on the status bar for those.
Installation for Test versions is Manual (Via Preferences:Plugins)
Most reversion (rollback to the main stream) is simply done by installing that over the previous install
BUT Always read instructions posed with the plugin. In rare cases of when one went really sideways, you may need to do more (remove settings or cruft)

[ownedbycats]

Test versions will just drop in over the old version. I've occasionally had the installation go wrong though (damned gremlins), just try again and hopefully it'll work.

Originally Posted by chicleeblair

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?

Yes, that's possible. It's pretty customizable too if you know regex - I was experimenting with switching to a profile with smaller text if the title was 'too long', but ended up not doing it for some reason.

## If you have the Generate Cover plugin installed, you can use the
## generate_cover_settings parameter to intelligently decide which GC
## setting to run.  There are three parts 1) a template of which
## metadata part(s) to look at, 2) a regular expression to match the
## template, and 3) the name of the GC setting to use, which must
## match exactly.  Use this parameter in [defaults], or by site eg,
## [ficwad.com]
## Make sure to keep at least one space at the start of each line and
## to escape % to %%, if used.
## template => regexp to match => GC Setting to use.
## To use this, make sure you go to the Generate Cover tab in FanFicFare
## config and check 'Allow generate_cover_settings from personal.ini
## to override'
## You can check for an existing cover image in the metadata
## cover_image.  cover_image can be:
## specific -- The site has an image that is specifically this story's cover
## first -- The first image in the story or story desc is used as cover
## default -- A default_cover_image was used
## force -- A force_cover_image was used
## old -- There was already a cover image in the epub.
## This is useful because GC plugin can use the existing image.
#generate_cover_settings:
# ${category} => Buffy:? [tT]he Vampire Slayer => BuffyCover
# ${category} => Star Trek => StarTrekCover
# ${cover_image} => ^$ => CompleteCover
# ${cover_image} => (specific|first|default|force) => CoverWithOrigImage

[culytera]

Does mark_new_chapters:true/false/latestonly only work when the Update Mode/if Story Exists option is "Update EPUB if New Chapters"? I always had it set to Overwrite Always when updating existing EPUBs because I also want to update the title page and the cover page which is just automatically generated from the title page.

[Ghostcat]

I am trying to add a new item to a list. So that if I have a (ao3) ship of the form ['Hermione Granger/Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley'] I end up with ['Harry/Hermione.Ginny', 'Triad']

ships=>(.+) .+\/Harry Potter\/(.+) .+=>Harry/\1.\2

correctly results in ['Harry/Hermione.Ginny']. However, if I add \,Triad on the end (as specified on the "Replace Metadata" web page. I don't get the ship tag or the "Triad" tag.

IE

ships=>(.+) .+\/Harry Potter\/(.+) .+=>Harry/\1.\2\,Triad

results in the empty list.

I know I am missing something obvious but I blowed I can see what it is.

[chicleeblair]

Ownedbycats

THANK YOU!

I’m stoked! I finished doing all my specific fandom tag parring, so next is clean-up time and then fun stuff like covers and title pages to keep things neat! (Without having taken all the names/ships out yet—to be readied with prefixes—I’m at ~1000. I kept more specific to ASOIAF and HP than I anticipated, but ~300 of those are for fandoms, episodes, books, seasons, and fusions, so I’m good.)

[culytera]

Originally Posted by Ghostcat

I am trying to add a new item to a list. So that if I have a (ao3) ship of the form ['Hermione Granger/Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley'] I end up with ['Harry/Hermione.Ginny', 'Triad']

ships=>(.+) .+\/Harry Potter\/(.+) .+=>Harry/\1.\2

correctly results in ['Harry/Hermione.Ginny']. However, if I add \,Triad on the end (as specified on the "Replace Metadata" web page. I don't get the ship tag or the "Triad" tag.

IE

ships=>(.+) .+\/Harry Potter\/(.+) .+=>Harry/\1.\2\,Triad

results in the empty list.

I know I am missing something obvious but I blowed I can see what it is.

It seems you just need to remove the backslash before ,

ships,ships_all=>(.+) .+\/Harry Potter\/(.+) .+=>Harry/\1.\2, Triad

- No backslash
- With backslash

[Ghostcat]

Originally Posted by culytera

It seems you just need to remove the backslash before ,

ships,ships_all=>(.+) .+\/Harry Potter\/(.+) .+=>Harry/\1.\2, Triad

- No backslash
- With backslash

Removing the backslash does result in ['Harry/Hermione.Ginny,Triad'] but this a single tag. Not the two tags that I am aiming for.

[culytera]

Originally Posted by Ghostcat

Removing the backslash does result in ['Harry/Hermione.Ginny,Triad'] but this a single tag. Not the two tags that I am aiming for.

Idk why it's like that for you, but they're separate tags for me, space or no space after the comma. I can select either tag on the browser.

[chicleeblair]

Really thought I had this figured out, but as per usual fanfictionnet is throwing in wrenches. I’m trying to standardize character names, and I’d like it them to be defaults. So ff.net uses Draco M., some Ao3 is Draco. For characters I had that working like this:

characters,ships_CHARS,ships=>^(.*(Draco|Draco M\.)/s.*)$=>Draco Malfoy

, works on characters but does absolutely nothing on ships

I've used (|) in the past for stuff like this, but for some reason that didn’t’t work either

[ownedbycats]

I'm not sure if it'll help in your situation, but you can put site-specific replaces under the site section.

[www.fanfiction.net]
add_to_replace_metadata:
# Characters
 characters=>^Garrus V\.=>Garrus Vakarian
 characters=>Tali'Zorah=>Tali'Zorah nar Rayya
 characters=>^Martin S\.=>Martin Septim

## ffnet's Mass Effect section screwed up when trying to merge the two Shepards. May need occasional storyUrl override.
 characters=>^J. Garson$=>Female Shepard
 characters=>^Shepard$=>Male Shepard

My thinking is that this would allow you to split apart the regexes to two simpler (and hopefully less breakable) ones.

Addendeum: One neat thing is that while you can only have one conditional, the siteUrl section itself kind of counts as a free &&publisher==FanFiction.net conditional.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2023-08-05
- base_efiction: .string -> stripHTML for nested tags Closes #984

[chicleeblair]

Yeah, but I was A. Hoping to avoid site-specifics, and B suing the test story with FF.Net naming so I’m super confused. Thanlks though! I’ll see if your code gives me insight, maybe I just typed something weird