[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[bpothier]

Ok, then likely a Cloudflare issue/"feature". tried 1 story today and it worked fine without any FFF proxy setting... It actually worked for 90% of the list I put in yesterday, only 1 failed then repeated failing with any story after that.. SOL is new to the CF multiverse, so so user re-training might be needed to properly set expectations.. (but also good to know 1 temp workaround functions...for now...)

[MrKonan]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

I'm not seeing any issues with SOL downloading. Anyone else seeing this?

Pretty strange error.. I've updated a few stories/different authors. Ran in to the 503 error, skipped to a different story update and went back to the 503 error title.. it worked afterwards

here's the quick log..

Status: Error

Title: A Captain Decision

Author: Pars001

Comment: HTTP Error in FFF '503 Server Error: Service Unavailable for url: sol/sol-secure/login.php'(503)

URL: sol/s/30263/a-captain-decision

Thanks

[julo]

Originally Posted by MrKonan

Comment: HTTP Error in FFF '503 Server Error: Service Unavailable for url: sol/sol-secure/login.php'(503)

I believe I saw the same thing today. In my case I think I had 2 requests open (not two files in one request). On redoing I got it fine.

[julo]

Say I list 5 files in FFF to download and after a while get "FFF found 3 good and 2 bad updates". So I click on Proceed, get my 3 good books but which books failed?
Can there be an option, another button say "Write fails to log", where failed downloads with appropriate information get written to a file so can be tried again? Maybe even make that the default for fails and write it right to Calibre?

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by julo

Say I list 5 files in FFF to download and after a while get "FFF found 3 good and 2 bad updates". So I click on Proceed, get my 3 good books but which books failed?

[Elaine T]

Originally Posted by julo

Say I list 5 files in FFF to download and after a while get "FFF found 3 good and 2 bad updates". So I click on Proceed, get my 3 good books but which books failed?
Can there be an option, another button say "Write fails to log", where failed downloads with appropriate information get written to a file so can be tried again? Maybe even make that the default for fails and write it right to Calibre?

Don't you get a choice to view log? I just had a similar failure (except they all failed) and chose view log, then copy to clipboard, and pasted it all into a document. The log shows the URLs and which of them failed. I'll be extremely glad when Ao3 stops having these problems. Has anyone seen any updates from them about it? Their tumblr hasn't had anything - if they're using the other social media they have listed I can't see it, as I don't have accounts on any of them.

[julo]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Attachment 215079

I have that checked but what does it give me?
However I had not checked the "Mark..." check box. Is that what was missing

[julo]

Originally Posted by Elaine T

Don't you get a choice to view log?

Yes I do get the log but more often than not I click on "Proceed" and then realize I shouldn't have done so but that is too late. Why not add it to FFF, it probably happens often enough and not to me alone?

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by julo

I have that checked but what does it give me?

You can view marked books, and the labels on pins identify failed.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by julo

Say I list 5 files in FFF to download and after a while get "FFF found 3 good and 2 bad updates". So I click on Proceed, get my 3 good books but which books failed?
Can there be an option, another button say "Write fails to log", where failed downloads with appropriate information get written to a file so can be tried again? Maybe even make that the default for fails and write it right to Calibre?

Click View Log in the Proceed dialog before clicking 'Yes' to update library.

Or, open the Jobs list by clicking where it says 'Jobs' in the lower right corner, then double click on the last 'Download X Fanfiction Books' job to see the full log. At the bottom, it will tell you what failed and the log will tell you why.

As pointed out, there's also options to 'mark' both successful and failed books--which admittedly doesn't help with new downloads.

[applegaa]

Originally Posted by julo

Say I list 5 files in FFF to download and after a while get "FFF found 3 good and 2 bad updates". So I click on Proceed, get my 3 good books but which books failed?
Can there be an option, another button say "Write fails to log", where failed downloads with appropriate information get written to a file so can be tried again? Maybe even make that the default for fails and write it right to Calibre?

You can create a custom column for those errors if you want to retain them.

On the "Custom Columns" tab, there is a section at the bottom labeled "Special column:" and you want to create a column and add it to "Update/Overwrite Error Column:". I don't check the "Save All Errors" box, so I only see error messages if the last run failed. Granted, stories with no updates are listed as bad but have no error message, so you will only see them if you use the "View Log" button others have mentioned.

I wish that it had Good/Bad/No instead of just Good/Bad, but the current system works.

- Andrew

[julo]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Click View Log in the Proceed dialog before clicking 'Yes' to update library.

I have to admit I usually click on the "Proceed" button as soon as the little window pops up. I guess I have to change my ways. But I still think it would be a good option??

[julo]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

As pointed out, there's also options to 'mark' both successful and failed books--which admittedly doesn't help with new downloads.

Only very very rarely do I update books. I usually wait till finished and then download.

[slantybard]

I am not sure what error I am making but I can't get FFF to download AO3 using the browser cache. I have no problems using FFF for FFnet browser cache stories but I get the following error when trying to use it for AO3:

HTTP Error in FFF 'Page not found or expired in Browser Cache (see FFF setting browser_cache_age_limit)'(428) URL:'https://archiveofourown....

I have added these settings to the AO3 section of my ini file (I have removed the cache info, username, and pw from the code shown below:

[defaults]
collect_series: false
browser_cache_path:/Users/xxxxxxxxx

[archiveofourown.org]
use_browser_cache:true
use_browser_cache_only:true
##open_pages_in_browser:true
never_make_cover:true
is_adult:true
##username:xxxx
##password:xxxx

## AO3 offers a page to download the entire work at once.  This can
## save a lot of network traffic if there are many chapters.
## True by built-in default.
#use_view_full_work:true

[overrides]
browser_cache_age_limit:4.0
never_make_cover:true
skip_author_cover:true
check_next_chapter:false

I have tried searching the forum and looked at the github wiki but haven't seen a solution that works for me. I do not have always_login in my personal ini file and I have also added the opener scheme to my Calibre tweaks.

I am sure that I am doing something wrong but haven't figured out what yet. Any help would be appreciated.

[ownedbycats]

Out of curiosity, is there any way to keep open_pages_in_browser from taking window focus? I was trying to look at something in another window while downloading a fic.