[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[ownedbycats]

edit: nevermind, figured this

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

This successfully added "General Audience" to fictags when Rating: K+ despite using a include_metadata_pre. I thought that wouldn't work. Is this bug or as intended?

I'm not sure, because I don't know what the inputs are. But that sounds right:

1. rating contains "K+"
2. rating replace_metadata changes "K+" to "General Audiences"
3. rating included in fictags
4. fictags include_metadata_pre applied, accepting "General Audiences"

FYI, in include/exclude lines, fictags==Explicit is functionally the same as fictags=~^Explicit$, but computationally (and finger-typing) less expensive.

[ownedbycats]

Thats good. What about the ones with spaces?

[ownedbycats]

I wanted to see if this would work for a hierarchical column.

# fanfictags combines several other categories to a single Calibre column. 
# category2 for includes/replaces before inclusion (without editing source category and title pages).
include_in_fictags:,char2,ship2
include_in_char2:characters
include_in_ship2:ships

replace_metadata: 
## Fanfic tags
 char2=>(.*)=>[Characters].\1
 ship2=>(.*)=>[Relationships].\1

The replace messed up so that every character/ship looks like
[Relationships].foo/bar[Relationships]

Messed up regex?

EDIT: Yes looks like. Calibre must've automatically dropped the trailing period: https://regex101.com/r/m9P7u9/1

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Thats good. What about the ones with spaces?

Internal spaces "A B", yes. Leading/Trailing spaces " A" or "B ", use '\s': "\sA" or "B/s"

[ownedbycats]

What the technical reason that a replace_metadata requires a space in front? I was splitting a very long (a|b|c|d) into several lines (less scrolling) and noticed it errored without the space.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

What the technical reason that a replace_metadata requires a space in front? I was splitting a very long (a|b|c|d) into several lines (less scrolling) and noticed it errored without the space.

INI file format parser uses that as 'line continuation' marker.

[ownedbycats]

Makes sense.

Question: Having trouble with this story. Tagscategory won't turn into Movies & Television, even split onto its own line. Just this 1 category, others work.

# tagscategory is a copy category for Fanfiction.category in tags
include_in_tagscategory:category
include_subject_tags: tagscategory

replace_metadata: 

 category=> \([0-9]+\)| \(Video Game\)| \(Video Games\)|([ ]*- Fandom)|([ ]*- All Media Types)| \(Movies\)|(|- Fandom\(Movies\)|\(Movie [0-9]+\)| \(Comics\)| \(TV\))$=>

 tagscategory=>All Dogs Go To Heaven=>Movies & Television

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Makes sense.

Question: Having trouble with this story. Tagscategory won't turn into Movies & Television, even split onto its own line. Just this 1 category, others work.

# tagscategory is a copy category for Fanfiction.category in tags
include_in_tagscategory:category
include_subject_tags: tagscategory

replace_metadata: 

 category=> \([0-9]+\)| \(Video Game\)| \(Video Games\)|([ ]*- Fandom)|([ ]*- All Media Types)| \(Movies\)|(|- Fandom\(Movies\)|\(Movie [0-9]+\)| \(Comics\)| \(TV\))$=>

 tagscategory=>All Dogs Go To Heaven=>Movies & Television

All Dogs Go To Heaven
All Dogs Go to Heaven

Try (?:i)All Dogs Go To Heaven

Some tips:
Use copy/paste when exact text match is needed.
Use 'find' text function in editor to check if new text matches exactly.
It's a lot easier to visual diff two strings when they're lined up vertically.

[ownedbycats]

ah, didn't realize (or remember) it was case-sensitive.

[ownedbycats]

Question (and [url=https://archiveofourown.org/works/24179737]story to test with[/url):

## Adds "Crossover" if more than one category after category replaces/includes/excludes.
add_category_when_multi_category:Crossover

replace_metdata:
## tagcategory standardization
 tagscategory=>(Mass Effect: Andromeda|Mass Effect Trilogy)=>Mass Effect
 tagscategory=>Pokémon=>Video Games

# Sorts anything other than a few selected categories into "Fanfiction.Other"
 tagscategory=>Crossover=>
 tagscategory=>^(?!.*(Half-Life|Portal|Mass Effect|The Elder Scrolls|Disney|Star Trek|(Animated )?Movies & Television|Books & Literature|Video Games)).*$=>Other

# Adds Fanfiction. to the beginning of tagcategory
 tagscategory=>^(.*)$=>Fanfiction.\1

If I include the crossover replace, I get a Fanfiction.Other on every fic with a crossover category (so not mismatch on these specific ones). What's happening?

[ownedbycats]

Also, was there ever a bug where AO3 series got jumbled in the saved metadata column? I was baffled to see these in two different fics:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/37857922 :
<p><span class='label'>Series</span>: <div class='metadata' id='seriesHTML'><a class='serieslink' href='., /, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, :, a, c, e, f, g, h, i, n, o, p, r, s, t, u, v, w'> , &amp;, 3, [, ], a, b, d, e, f, h, i, k, l, n, o, r, s, t, u, w, ’</a></div><p>

https://archiveofourown.org/works/39459798 :
<p><span class='label'>Series</span>: <div class='metadata' id='seriesHTML'><a class='serieslink' href='., /, 1, 7, 9, :, a, c, e, f, g, h, i, n, o, p, r, s, t, u, v, w'> , ', 3, E, N, S, [, ], i, k, n, o, s, t, y</a></div><p>


The only thing they had in common were being the third in the series and downloaded in May/June 2022. Downloading metadata restored the actual series so its just a curiosity than anything to fix.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Question (and [url=https://archiveofourown.org/works/24179737]story to test with[/url):

## Adds "Crossover" if more than one category after category replaces/includes/excludes.
add_category_when_multi_category:Crossover

replace_metdata:
## tagcategory standardization
 tagscategory=>(Mass Effect: Andromeda|Mass Effect Trilogy)=>Mass Effect
 tagscategory=>Pokémon=>Video Games

# Sorts anything other than a few selected categories into "Fanfiction.Other"
 tagscategory=>Crossover=>
 tagscategory=>^(?!.*(Half-Life|Portal|Mass Effect|The Elder Scrolls|Disney|Star Trek|(Animated )?Movies & Television|Books & Literature|Video Games)).*$=>Other

# Adds Fanfiction. to the beginning of tagcategory
 tagscategory=>^(.*)$=>Fanfiction.\1

If I include the crossover replace, I get a Fanfiction.Other on every fic with a crossover category (so not mismatch on these specific ones). What's happening?

I think you left out part--I don't get any tagscategory.

I'd consider include lines instead of a large negative lookahead regexp.

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Also, was there ever a bug where AO3 series got jumbled in the saved metadata column? I was baffled to see these in two different fics:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/37857922 :
<p><span class='label'>Series</span>: <div class='metadata' id='seriesHTML'><a class='serieslink' href='., /, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, :, a, c, e, f, g, h, i, n, o, p, r, s, t, u, v, w'> , &amp;, 3, [, ], a, b, d, e, f, h, i, k, l, n, o, r, s, t, u, w, ’</a></div><p>

https://archiveofourown.org/works/39459798 :
<p><span class='label'>Series</span>: <div class='metadata' id='seriesHTML'><a class='serieslink' href='., /, 1, 7, 9, :, a, c, e, f, g, h, i, n, o, p, r, s, t, u, v, w'> , ', 3, E, N, S, [, ], i, k, n, o, s, t, y</a></div><p>


The only thing they had in common were being the third in the series and downloaded in May/June 2022. Downloading metadata restored the actual series so its just a curiosity than anything to fix.

That's the result of a string in python being treated as a list. I don't remember anything about series being treated that way 3 years ago. Nor have I found anything in the few minutes I have to spend on it.

Honestly, if it's not happening now, I don't care.

In the 'teach to fish' category:

• Go to the github repo.
• Use the search box towards the top to search the repo.
• In this case, I'd look at Commits.

Alternatively, if you are confident in your dates:

• Go to the github repo.
• Click commits.
• Click where it says 'All time', to the date range you're interested in.
• Peruse the commit from the time.

Here on MR:

• Go back in thread and/or release history to that time period.
• Look for posts.

[ownedbycats]

edit: nevermind

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2025-06-22
- Plugin BG Jobs: Remove old multi-process code
- Report BG job failed entirely as individual books failed instead of just exception. For #1225