[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[JimmXinu]

New New Test Version Posted

2021-01-16
- Re-enable ffnet and bump up sleep times for same.
- ffnet fpcom, continue_on_chapter_error:true by default, increase sleep times.
- First rough version of reporting continue_on_chapter_error chapters.
- Report chapter_error in custom error column and marked (when configured).

[Ascello]

Originally Posted by Ascello

Basically, could someone help me with the .ini file in Calibre? Seriously, not sure where I should ask, I know exactly 0 about any programming and computer codes, so I am really out of my depth here.

So, I'm trying to give the files prefix based on the category. Basically my idea is that if category of the fic is XYZ then the title of the fic should be changed to ABC.title. So I have this code:


This is literally ALL the code I used for tests, so nothing should be interfering.

My issue is that the category is changed in ALL fics, but the title only in SOME. The only way to make it work on all fics is to remove the &&category part of the second line altogether, but I can't do it, because obviously I plan on having more than one category in the end.

All the stories affected are on Ao3, but I don't really use other websites, so the sample size outside Ao3 was very small. All of the affected fics seem to be only 1 chapter long (weather or not the fic is completed doesn't seem to have an effect). The titles of multi-chapter fics are changed as planned. This is extremely bizarre.

Also, ideally I would like to change the titles of anthologies too. But the code above doesn't work with them and nothing else I could come up with does either. I might be just too stupid for this.

Anyone pls help? I am still stuck on this. =.=

[JimmXinu]

I would need to see some example story URLs that exhibit the issue, but I suspect they are stories that don't have any category values

[ILB]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

New New Test Version Posted

2021-01-16
- Re-enable ffnet and bump up sleep times for same.
- ffnet fpcom, continue_on_chapter_error:true by default, increase sleep times.
- First rough version of reporting continue_on_chapter_error chapters.
- Report chapter_error in custom error column and marked (when configured).

Works for me. No more problems with ffnet downloads.

[CuddlyMakani]

Hi! I've been using FFF for more than half a year now, and I'm so happy I found it! Except for some difficulties in the beginning, I've never had any problems since then.

But I started having some problems with the "replace_metadata".

I've been using it to automatically change AO3 categories to others.

In my .ini, it looks like this:
category=>Marvel=>Marvel Cinematic Universe
or
category=>Marvel \(Marvel Movies\)=>Marvel Cinematic Universe

Around 1 week ago, the lines stopped working, but seemingly only the ones with brackets. (not 100% sure about though)

[JimmXinu]

Nothing in that part of FFF has changed lately.

I'd have to see your exact ini settings and some story URLs it happens to. Otherwise I'm just guessing.

[ownedbycats]

It's hard to tell what's going on without seeing the other replace_metadatas, but some random things that have helped me figure out similar issues:

One thing to try is changing "Marvel" in the first line to ^Marvel$ to make it an exact string match and thus not mess up any strings just containing the word.

If you use a longtext metadata column, also check that to make sure your fics are still using "Marvel (Marvel Movies)" If the pattern changed (AO3 sometimes tweaks the category naming) it could break the regex.

[JimmXinu]

New New New Test Version Posted

2021-01-16
- Re-enable ffnet and bump up sleep times for same.
- ffnet fpcom, continue_on_chapter_error:true by default, increase sleep times.
- First rough version of reporting continue_on_chapter_error chapters.
- Report chapter_error in custom error column and marked (when configured).
- Update to cloudscraper v1.2.52
- Increase times between retries on fetch error.
- Tweek ffnet/fpcom sleep times again.
- slow_down_sleep_time: randomize between 0.5 time and 1.5 time.
- Report cloudscraper exceptions as such, plus hide the potentially misleading 'opensource' part.


So when slow_down_sleep_time:8, FFF will randomly choose a (float) value between 4 and 12 to sleep. I decided 'simple is better' in this case.

[riothamus]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

New New Test Version Posted

2021-01-16
- Re-enable ffnet and bump up sleep times for same.
- ffnet fpcom, continue_on_chapter_error:true by default, increase sleep times.
- First rough version of reporting continue_on_chapter_error chapters.
- Report chapter_error in custom error column and marked (when configured).

The New New test version worked for ~15-20 stories that needed to be updated/overwritten. No errors or issues. Thanks much for the hard work!

[ownedbycats]

For any FanFicFare users who read on Kobo, I posted a template I use for displaying fandom/fanfic status as a subtitle.

[steltek]

Well, started seeing the Cloudflare V2 errors again today, and FFF is no longer working for me.

EDIT: Looks like they are still having migration issues (including a hardware issue) according to FictionPress's Twitter feed. I'll give it a couple of hours and try again.

[steltek]

FFF seems to be working again. It may be that it will be hit or miss until the entire server migration is completed (which will hopefully be any time now).

[Ascello]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

I would need to see some example story URLs that exhibit the issue, but I suspect they are stories that don't have any category values

The issue is for literally any single chapter story on ao3 as far as I see. And they do have category, and it is replaced just fine. Just the title prefix doesn't appear. For multi-chapter fics everything works fine. Here, literally the first fics i found on ao3 just now:

-Multi-chapter fic, everything works.
-One-shot, category replacement works, title prefix addition doesn't.
-First chapter of longer fic, issues as above.

BTW, since the code didn't copy to my last post:

replace_metadata:

category=>^(.*)$=>XYZ

title=>^(.*)$=>ABC.\1&&category=>XYZ

There is no other code in personal.ini.

I apologise if this post appears twice, I had some error during the submission of this post, and I didn't read it properly, so not sure what's going on.

[b00kiest]

Hello. I get this message no matter what I try:

The site fanfiction.net is blocking downloads. Site is disabled in this version of FanFicFare.

I've been trying for several days. I looked into going backwards in fff plugin but I can't seem to find an older zip file.

Any ideas? I can get the fff app to work and I can get AO3 to work.. it seems to only be fanfiction.net but other say it's working for them.

https://mobileread.cdn.speedyrails.n...lies/frown.gif

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Ascello

The issue is for literally any single chapter story on ao3 as far as I see. And they do have category, and it is replaced just fine. Just the title prefix doesn't appear. For multi-chapter fics everything works fine. Here, literally the first fics i found on ao3 just now:

I owe Ascello a bit of an apology; when a new user comes along and says they see a problem with all stories of some sort, the odds of it being user error are much higher than a real bug.

But this one is a really subtle bug having to do with FFF caching metadata values after processing replace_metadata for a particular key once and the fact that the AO3 adapter, by fetching title from the metadata for one-shots (to use as the chapter title) before category values are collected causes FFF to cache an empty value for category the value of title without the category change. Which was propagated forward.

Notably, doing an 'Update from Saved Column' does't have that problem because it isn't fetching title just then.

There are at least three ways I could address this, each with different trade-offs. I'm still pondering which to go with. But there will be a fix coming.

Originally Posted by Ascello

BTW, since the code didn't copy to my last post:

[quote] blocks are removed when quoting a past post. Use [code] blocks instead--they also preserve spacing better.