[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2026-01-21
- Image Handling: Cache image failure within a story download
- Image Handling: Save original URL on image failure marked 'failedtoload'
- Image Handling: Fix dedup_img_files in new handling

Failure handling improved.

dedup_img_files still has one oddity that it changes the origurl/longdesc to the dedup'ed image, but only on the next update.

[ownedbycats]

Question: AO3 series page only displays 20 books before new page. Put one with severa pages in, got every story. How does it work?

[JimmXinu]

AO3, or rather base_otw_adapter, is one of the few (only?) supported sites with dedicated code for collecting series; including following the pagination.

[Eridyne]

Okay. For a specific story example, I'll use https://forums.sufficientvelocity.co...a-varga.32119/ as the URL.

The intent is to concatenate an arbitrary string, which for this example is "WormFic - ", with the contents of the preexisting 'site' variable, which in this case is "forums.sufficientvelocity.com".
The end result should be the string "WormFic - forums.sufficientvelocity.com", and that should end up in the custom Calibre column "collection", for use with Kobo's Collections feature.

As mentioned, I can get either a string (e.g., "WormFic") or the 'site' variable (e.g., "forums.sufficientvelocity.com") into the "collection" column just fine, but I'd like to combine those, preferably without adding redundant columns to the Calibre DB.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Eridyne

The intent is to concatenate an arbitrary string, which for this example is "WormFic - ", with the contents of the preexisting 'site' variable, which in this case is "forums.sufficientvelocity.com".
The end result should be the string "WormFic - forums.sufficientvelocity.com", and that should end up in the custom Calibre column "collection", for use with Kobo's Collections feature.

As mentioned, there's no specific string concat mechanism, but replace_metadata can do a lot. Here's one approach.

First, don't change FFF's site metadata entry--it's assumed to be a domain name and used internally in epub metadata. So we'll make a copy.

Second, I assume you don't actually mean it when you say an arbitrary string. You want Worm fics specifically.

[defaults]
add_to_extra_valid_entries:,cat_site
include_in_cat_site:site

add_to_replace_metadata:
 cat_site=>^(.*)$=>WormFic - \1&&category==Worm
## Add more lines for Star Trek, Warhammer, whatever.
## Be aware you could get more than one then.

It's honestly probably easier to turn it around and copy category and append site name, but this is what you asked for.

And you use custom_columns_settings to populate the Calibre column with cat_site. You said you have that part already.

[ownedbycats]

Question. Maybe asked before but the search here is awful

On AO3, & is platonic, / is romantic. Some authors tag both of them on works.


So, say that a fanfic has "Shepard & Vakarian, Shepard/Vakarian," or "Kirk & Spock, Kirk/Spock." I'd like to remove the & tag in this instance. Conditionals don't work when its the same metadata. StoryUrl sections to exclude would work, but enough effort that not worth bother. Any other way?

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

So, say that a fanfic has "Shepard & Vakarian, Shepard/Vakarian," or "Kirk & Spock, Kirk/Spock." I'd like to remove the & tag in this instance. Conditionals don't work when its the same metadata. StoryUrl sections to exclude would work, but enough effort that not worth bother. Any other way?

This seems to work:

add_to_replace_metadata:
 ships_LIST=>([^,]+) &(?:amp;)? ([^,]+), \1/\2=>\1/\2

Won't work if ships aren't in order. Also benefits from sort_ships:true. Will fail when an author inevitably misspells a name in one ship, but not the other.

Something else to note:

## By default, entries listed in include_subject_tags are used as
## lists, skipping any <entry>_LIST processing in
## replace_metadata/etc.  You can instead use <entry>_LIST in
## include_subject_tags to get the whole list as one string.

So you need to change ships to ships_LIST in include_subject_tags if you want this to work for EPUB subjects and Calibre's Tags.

[ownedbycats]

It works!

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2026-01-22
- Image Handling: Rename dedup'ed images on first pass, too.
- Image Handling: Remove unused images properly with dedup_img_files

[Demanih]

When saving the history from ficbook.net the formatting of the text is lost, all in one line ((

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Demanih

When saving the history from ficbook.net the formatting of the text is lost, all in one line ((

.... If you're just venting, okay.

But if you're looking for help, I have no idea what you're talking about.