[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[Tanjamuse]

I have the following in my personal.ini that separates the ships by & which I've done on purpose.

join_string_ships:\s&\s

I couldn't see if you had something like that in your personal.ini

[firefoxxy]

No, that's nothing I have in there, Tanja. I do not join strings - the ships are already there. Either seperated by a '/' or a ' & '.

I begin to think that it would be easier if I just would leave the characters in the ships as 'Fist-name Last-name'. But I did want to have 'First-name' only. (I ran into other problems with Japanese names which have the pattern 'Last-name First-name'; so I ended up with things like 'Uchiha/Uchiha' instead of 'Fugaku/Mikoto' - but that's another issue.)

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by firefoxxy

First of all thank you for this plug-in! I have a question and hope this is the right place to ask.

It would be more proper to ask in the FanFicFare thread because you're asking about FanFicFare setting, not Generate Cover.

Assuming that you have the generate_cover_settings in a section that applies, that ships contains "Naruto/Sasuke" and you have a GC setting named NaruSasu, I believe what you showed should work.

generate_cover_settings:
 ${ships}=>Naruto/Sasuke=>NaruSasu

The generate_cover_settings cannot look in custom columns, so that's never going to work.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by firefoxxy

It's me again. I have (again) trouble with metadata when downloading a story. The peronal.ini is set to change the ship 'Harry Potter & and Severus Snape' to 'Harry & Severus' when downloading a story from AO3.

You have a line to match ^Harry Potter & Severus Snape$, but not 'Harry Potter & and Severus Snape'.

(Assuming that's not a typo. Yet another reason it's always a good idea to include example story URLs.)

[firefoxxy]

Hi Jim

Sorry .

First the replace_metadata - yes, it was a typo. The stories all had "Harry Potter & Severus Snape", and after downloading and replacing metadata there was no ship at all.
Here's the story link that did not work: link

The generate cover setting: I have tried the setting you mentioned, and it worked! Thank you!

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by firefoxxy

First the replace_metadata - yes, it was a typo. The stories all had "Harry Potter & Severus Snape", and after downloading and replacing metadata there was no ship at all.
Here's the story link that did not work: link

By commenting out each ships line that could effect it, I determined it's the line:

 ships=>(?:^|(?<=/))([^ ,:]+)[^/]*(?=/|$)=>\1

Looking at it for a bit (and experimenting with it longer), I think this expression is intended to generically strip each part of a ships entry down to first name only. (When using complex regexp, it's a good idea to put a comment nearby explaining what they do. For all their power regexp are not terribly readable.)

But it doesn't work with & separated ships, or with ' / ' (note the spaces) separated ships. Nor does it play nicely with sort_ships:true.

Instead, use:

replace_metadata:
## strip each ships char down to first name only.
 ships_CHARS=>^([^ ]+).*$=>\1

That way you can remove a lot of the ships lines you have.

But only after getting the new test version, because along the way with figuring this out I found that ships_CHARS and sort_ships_splits didn't work together correctly. So:

New test version (direct link)

2016-01-06

- Fix so ships_CHARS and sort_ships_splits work together. Also add default sort_ships_splits that includes & separated ships.

[firefoxxy]

Dear Jim

Thank you so much!

I installed the new version, commented all ship-replacements out, and tried it with these stories:
story 1 story 2 story 3 story 4

Story 1 is the "Harry Potter & Severus Snape" from earlier which now changed into "Harry & Severus" as it should. Story 2 has a tag "Loki/ Tony Stark" (with a space) which was changed to "Loki/Tony". Story 3 has a threesome slash pairing: "Uchiha Itachi/Uchiha Sasuke/Uzumaki Naruto" came (predictably) out as "Uchiha/Uchiha/Uzumaki", story 4 is a threesome '&' pairing - so it handles even 'more'somes.

Everything works fine for me. Thank you so much for looking into this and the time you have taken for helping me out!

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by firefoxxy

Everything works fine for me. Thank you so much for looking into this and the time you have taken for helping me out!

Glad it's working for you.

I designed expecting that there would be 'more'somes, but be warned that weird things may happen if you ever run across a story that uses both / and & in the same ship entry. I've never seen one 'in the wild', but AO3 did let me enter it in a test story.

As for family name first names, you can another regexp before the 'first name only' one that instead does 'last name only' for certain family names:

## second name only for certain family-name-first names:
 ships_CHARS=>^(Uchiha|Uzumaki|Haruno|Hyuuga|Hatake|Namikaze) *([^ ]+)$=>\2
## first names only:
 ships_CHARS=>^([^ ]+).*$=>\1

Note that it won't work if there's more than two names, like "Hyuuga Hinata (Naruto)/Uzumaki Naruto (Naruto)" won't work.

[firefoxxy]

o_O wow, thanks Jim!

I just tested and it works (of course). Thank you so much. I was just looking at the FAQ and wiki pages to try and find a solution. But this is so much smoother than anything I could have brought together...
And I know that AO3 is sometimes a little painful to try and contol, so I am already used to polish the metadata by hand - no problem. But you really made my life with FFF much better.

[justkiddingornot]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

I'll look into it again. Can you provide links to a few stories that are on fictionhunt.com that aren't on ffnet?

Example: Kara's Aunty _ Not Quite A Maia
Fictionhunt: http://fictionhunt.com/read/4838629/53

Former FF.net (googling still yields this link, though the story has been deleted): https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4838629/1/Not-Quite-A-Maia

The story is also available elsewhere (http://www.fictionalley.org/authors/...unty/NQAM.html) though not complete, only 23 Chapters there. Only FH has all 53 chapters that were written.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by justkiddingornot

Example: Kara's Aunty _ Not Quite A Maia
Fictionhunt: http://fictionhunt.com/read/4838629/53

Former FF.net (googling still yields this link, though the story has been deleted): https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4838629/1/Not-Quite-A-Maia

The story is also available elsewhere (http://www.fictionalley.org/authors/...unty/NQAM.html) though not complete, only 23 Chapters there. Only FH has all 53 chapters that were written.

That's one example. And it's not a very good one since the metadata says 54 chapters while fictionhunt.com only appears to have 53 chapters.

Then the story at the top of the front page when I looked says "Story has been removed. Please, check original page on FF.net - it might be available there." That argues against the idea of fictionhunt.com being a place to get deleted stories from.

If somebody else wants to write the code for it, I'll happily accept an adapter for fictionhunt.com. But I'm not interested in spending time on it myself.

[wolfhoodie]

hello sorry to bother you but i'm having trouble with fanficfare. i've been using it for a while now on the same site. i can't download from quotev. i've updated it's just not working please help!!

[readerboy7]

Is it possible to get a list of URLs of all the books I've downloaded with FFF? It's a bit inconvenient to backup my whole library in multiple locations due to file size, but it'd be much easier to just backup the URLs to dropbox or other places, incase my computer and backup fail simultaneously agian.
Thanks.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by readerboy7

Is it possible to get a list of URLs of all the books I've downloaded with FFF? It's a bit inconvenient to backup my whole library in multiple locations due to file size, but it'd be much easier to just backup the URLs to dropbox or other places, incase my computer and backup fail simultaneously agian.

You should be able to create a catalog with the information in it. These can be in CSV or book formats. To start it, select the books and right click on the conversion button. You then choose the format and details. Beyond that, you'll have to play or look for help as it's something I know exists but don't use myself.

[Metaxil]

Originally Posted by readerboy7

Is it possible to get a list of URLs of all the books I've downloaded with FFF? It's a bit inconvenient to backup my whole library in multiple locations due to file size, but it'd be much easier to just backup the URLs to dropbox or other places, incase my computer and backup fail simultaneously agian.
Thanks.

There is, in fact an option to do just that. What david said is valid, but if all you're looking for is a list? There's a dead simple way to do it. Highlight all your fanfiction, select the dropdown arrow next to the fanficfare logo, and 2/3 the way down is an option "get story url from selected books" this will grab every book there, and I can tell you from experience it will select 15k urls. It may just take a few minutes.

At that point, copy and paste the information into a text file, or whatever your chosen format.