[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[ackomb]

Originally Posted by novelas_

"Can you please explain the statement you made, which I have highlighted in bold?"

If you set up a meta data colums this stores all the metadata collected from a site. If you're strugeling with some code and are trying to get it right it can come in handy. If I don't get the result I'm looking for in a certain column I emty it, change the code and use Update Calibre Metadata from saved Metadata Column. For one it's faster, but also it's frowned upon to hit the same site/story over and over again which could result your IP addres being blocked or you even banned from a site (or so I've been told).

Ps. see this scrteenshot for which option to choose for the update.

Originally Posted by novelas_

did you manage to set it up?

No I did not, didn't have time this week to play around. I'll try again this weekend, but I'm getting so fed up ff.net issues that I'm thinking about abandoning it all together. Half the stories are crossposted on AO3 anyway.

Originally Posted by culytera

Was it on purpose that you put the ='s before the comment prefix #?

===========================================## FANFICTION.NET ##================================================ =================

You can ignore this, I use to have a rather large .ini file so it wanted a long line in the middle to easliy find where I wanted to go when scrolling through it. Since then I scrubbed the .ini file so it's kinda useless now, but I'm used to it.

[chicleeblair]

Okay, y'all I did a dumb. I did a final update on all the fic I've been organizing (thousands of files) and didn't think there'd be new chapters, but apparently there were more that I'd downloaded without subscribing to than I predicted. My log_page wasn't working, but I figured I'd fix it once I had all the metadata downloaded finally. I do have new chapters marked, but the full-text search can't identify special characters so just searching for (new) doesn't work.

So, does anyone know if the job logs for Calibre are saved anywhere, or if there's a way to bulk search Table of Contents? This isn't like all the fics were updated recently, or everything I modified has new chapters. I have no idea how many do, and i'm kicking myself. I know this can be avoided in future, but I'd like to be able to ID new chapters now.

MacOS 12.6.8 Calibre 6.26 Fanficfare 4.27

[JimmXinu]

Instead of Calibre's Full Text Search, I tend to use the plugin Quality Check > Search ePubs feature, it's regexp and you can escape the parans: \(new\)

[chibimaya92]

Hello,
i know it was ask again and again but i'm here for fanfiction.net too, well not only but the others sites work fine.
Can i ask help to configure my personal.ini ?
Can i ask help to understand and try to create also my own configuration with my customs columns for AO3 and Ffnet ? I read the others posts about it and i found it really interesting

I'm trying te create a catalog with Calibre and export it on cvs.
I only use AO3 and FFnet for my readings, and i want really specifics columns.
Can i ask here or i need to find another topics for that ?

I already read the FAQs, and try the browser cache and/or the proxy, didn't work at all. I try the browser cache thing on different browser too

I'm really sorry to disturb you again with all of it

[chicleeblair]

I’m confident that I’ve looked for answers to these two questions and haven’t seen them addressed, at least north that google can tell me, so hopefully they help someone else.

1. My chapterstotal column is text so that it can handle “?”s and when I update anthologies, it collects the total number of chapters in each ePub. Is there a way to get it to sum these like the #chapters column, which is integers?

(I just realized that the “?” could be an issue here, too, but I’m thinking that you could remove them in the case of an “anthology tag” )

2. I have a custom column called “type” made up of permitted values (book, fic, article, short stories, etc.) These map to my fanfic and books virtual libraries. Is there a way that ePubs downloaded by FFF can be marked as “fic” by default?

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by chicleeblair

2. I have a custom column called “type” made up of permitted values (book, fic, article, short stories, etc.) These map to my fanfic and books virtual libraries. Is there a way that ePubs downloaded by FFF can be marked as “fic” by default?

[defaults]
custom_columns_settings: 
## Book type
 "Fanfiction"=>#booktype

[culytera]

Originally Posted by chibimaya92

Hello,
i know it was ask again and again but i'm here for fanfiction.net too, well not only but the others sites work fine.
Can i ask help to configure my personal.ini ?
Can i ask help to understand and try to create also my own configuration with my customs columns for AO3 and Ffnet ? I read the others posts about it and i found it really interesting

I'm trying te create a catalog with Calibre and export it on cvs.
I only use AO3 and FFnet for my readings, and i want really specifics columns.
Can i ask here or i need to find another topics for that ?

I already read the FAQs, and try the browser cache and/or the proxy, didn't work at all. I try the browser cache thing on different browser too

I'm really sorry to disturb you again with all of it

You can check this thread for some examples, might help you get started.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by chibimaya92

Can i ask help to configure my personal.ini ?
...

I will help with specific issues when I have time (my time will be limited this week, FYI). But all my general answers are already here or in the wiki.

If they don't help, perhaps someone else can.

Originally Posted by chicleeblair

1. My chapterstotal column is text so that it can handle “?”s and when I update anthologies, it collects the total number of chapters in each ePub. Is there a way to get it to sum these like the #chapters column, which is integers?

IMO, chapterstotal isn't very useful. Most incomplete stories have '?' and if any story in an anthology has '?' the sum of chapterstotal could well be less than the sum of numChapters.

chapterstotal is a site specific metadata entry. IE, FFF only collects it for AO3 (and other OTW) sites. In fact, it's derived from chapterslashtotal using add_to_replace_metadata.

From defaults.ini:

## chapterslashtotal contains 1/3 or 1/1 or 3/? etc as reported by AO3.
## chapterstotal is just the total chapters part after the /
include_in_chapterstotal:chapterslashtotal.NOREPL
add_to_replace_metadata:
 chapterstotal=>^([0-9])+/(.+)$=>\2

If you set a metadata entry (using custom_columns_settings) into a float or integer type custom column, FFF will automatically split the list by commas and sum the values when it's an anthology.

But with the default definition of chapterstotal, that's a problem, because of the '?'.

Here's a brute force approach make chapterstotal the total or current when total is ?

## chapterslashtotal contains 1/3 or 1/1 or 3/? etc as reported by AO3.
include_in_chapterstotal:chapterslashtotal.NOREPL
add_to_replace_metadata:
 chapterstotal=>((?P<chap>[0-9]+)/\?)|([0-9]+/(?P<totchap>[0-9]+))=>\g<chap>\g<totchap>

Putting that in [defaults] works while doing away with '?' for chapterstotal.

Splitting out a separate copy or putting it under a more specific section should be possible, but I'm too tired right now.

[chibimaya92]

Originally Posted by culytera

You can check this thread for some examples, might help you get started.

Thanks ! I will check that !

[chicleeblair]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

[defaults]
custom_columns_settings: 
## Book type
 "Fanfiction"=>#booktype

Wow. That’s painfully simple. Thank you!

[Aliumas147]

So is there a way to save as seperate chapters?

[applegaa]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

[defaults]
custom_columns_settings: 
## Book type
 "Fanfiction"=>#booktype

I've been struggling with attempts to have FFF conditionally set the Status column to "Anthology" for anthologies. I haven't had much luck with what I've tried so far, so I tried modifying the above code.

I also found a wiki entry that had this code:

[defaults]
generate_cover_settings:
 ${anthology}=>true=>Anthology Cover

I tried to combine the logic from both, resulting in this:

custom_columns_settings:
 ${anthology}=>true=>"Anthology"=>#status

However, it complains that it's only expecting two values to unpack. Can anybody help me fix this (or show me a better way)?

- Andrew

[applegaa]

PS: I wish there was an [anthology] section in personal.ini we could use for things that we only want to apply to anthologies.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by applegaa

I've been struggling with attempts to have FFF conditionally set the Status column to "Anthology" for anthologies. I haven't had much luck with what I've tried so far, so I tried modifying the above code.

I also found a wiki entry that had this code:

[defaults]
generate_cover_settings:
 ${anthology}=>true=>Anthology Cover

I tried to combine the logic from both, resulting in this:

custom_columns_settings:
 ${anthology}=>true=>"Anthology"=>#status

However, it complains that it's only expecting two values to unpack. Can anybody help me fix this (or show me a better way)?

- Andrew

Yeah, custom column settings are an all-or-nothing thing, no conditionals there. You could probably create a custom entry (mapped to status), do a replace for the anthologies, and then insert that into the column.

I don't seem to have any special handling for anthologies myself (either in personal.ini or my metadata postprocessing) but I only have a few so maybe I just did them manually.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Aliumas147

So is there a way to save as seperate chapters?

If you mean have FFF automatically save each chapter in a story as an individual book when downloading, no.

You can use EpubSplit (see link in my sig) to very easily split individual chapters into separate books after the fact.

You can put a chapter range after the story URL when you download it to limit which chapters are downloaded, example:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11111/1/Title[5-8]

Search also ignore_chapter_url_list and first_chapter / last_chapter.

Originally Posted by applegaa

PS: I wish there was an [anthology] section in personal.ini we could use for things that we only want to apply to anthologies.

That might actually be possible now. There have been some changes since the last time I looked at that idea. But it would only be applicable to custom_columns_settings and generate_cover_settings. Everything else would still be controlled per-story.