[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[MerlinMama]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Okay, thanks. I'll be treating it more as a new site then. Unfortunately, that means you won't be able to just update pre-existing ncisfiction.net stories.

But if you download by URL, FFF will notice if you have a pre-existing book with the same title/author. (If you have the option turned on.)

Personally, all the stories I currently have are either complete or long abandoned. I only noticed because I'm building a reject list of stories with the reason "Already Have", that way I don't re-download stories that already exist in my library. It told me I didn't have a valid ID

[ILB]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Yes. What you do is create an extra custom metadata field then fill with both(or more) and use that to populate the column.

[archiveofourown.org]
add_to_extra_valid_entries:,yourfield
include_in_yourfield:rating,category
custom_columns_settings:
 yourfield=>#yourcolumn

Thanks!

[Tanjamuse]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

To put the story HTML into a column? No.

Could there be?

[Firedancer885]

Hi Jimm,

I got this error this morning:

'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_text', for 7 different AO3 stories. Could you please check?

Edit: Sorry, forgot to check the AO3 status messages. Please disregard the above.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Tanjamuse

Could there be?

To put the story HTML -- that is, the text of the generated ebook -- into a column? No, I don't have any plans to provide that.

Why would you want that? That's what the ebook files are for.

[Tanjamuse]

I meant the link to the story like the AuthorHTML does.

[mehetabelo]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Ouch. I'm glad you were able to recover.
...
(FYI, I did find that copying a library dir to a new name within the same calibre instance/install doesn't work as I expected. Calibre kinda-sorta considers them the same--same library UID and shared FFF settings. So don't do that.)

In other news, be careful with Calibre's export/import all data features. It means it when it says 'all'.

Thanks for the information. I still am not sure what actually caused it, I've copied the lirbary more than once to another drive as a backup, or keeping a copy on an externally to access while on the road. I've never had a problem until now.

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

As for backup, I submit that asking each program (let alone each plugin in each program) to provide their own backup mechanism is not practical.

I think what you need is incremental backup of the library dir, not manual backup of specific parts. My library is 2.25G and my incremental backup (rsync) generally takes only a few minutes because it's only sending what's changed.

I meant my database file itself is ~340mb. That means anytime my db file changes it would have to update the entire file, correct? Which would be regularly, almost daily if I'm home. My calibre library is a mixed fanfiction, webfiction and books (books that are specifically for my kindle semi current stuff.) It currently has 92k books in it but a good sized portion of that is because of the current HDD move and my doing some cleanup in the process since my 'Kindle' library (what I call it) is one for cleanup and such.

Anyway, I knew it probably wasn't practical, but it was just a stray thought that developed out of the panic.

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

I just tested that and in personal.ini, custom_columns 'a' worked as expected for me.

However, if you use the setting on the Custom Columns tab to set the column, it always does replace. Even if you have 'a' in custom_columns. Might that explain it?

Yeah, I found that was the problem. Sometimes I'm an idiot. Thanks for clearing it up.

[JimmXinu]

(multi-reply)

Originally Posted by Tanjamuse

I meant the link to the story like the AuthorHTML does.

That makes a little more sense.

Looking at it, the existing code doesn't have a storyHTML, nor can it create one using make_linkhtml_entries. I will consider if I want to add additional special code for it.

It would help if you describe exactly what you would want from it.

Originally Posted by mehetabelo

I meant my database file itself is ~340mb. That means anytime my db file changes it would have to update the entire file, correct?

A proper incremental backup should only update the parts of the file that changed. How big it chunks the files may vary.

[Tanjamuse]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

That makes a little more sense.

Looking at it, the existing code doesn't have a storyHTML, nor can it create one using make_linkhtml_entries. I will consider if I want to add additional special code for it.

It would help if you describe exactly what you would want from it.

When I merge multiple stories downloaded from different sites, the Ids keep only one story link, but I would like to keep them all.

I know I can do that with a Story_URL column but I really like the other option of having it show the title of the story instead of just an ID-number.

Like the option for the AuthorHTML contra the Author URL.

Alternate if it could be possible to create a rule in the Ids column that shows the title instead of the website (see attachment) and then copy the Ids column to a StoryHTML column?

[firefoxxy]

I have several stories from AO3 that were archived from other sites, the author is always the same account (e.g. ISF_Archivist). But there is the original writer's name, too, only not with an account. Uh, I don't know how to explain.

Here are some links (stories are restricted!):
Four Walls by Twi [archived by ISF_Archivist]
Smoke and Mirrors by Downdilly [archived by ISF_Archivist]
To Snare a Snape by y2kewel [archived by HPFandom_archivist]

Would it be possible to extract the original author's name (like 'Twi') and put it as a second writer in the epub's metadata, so that it displays both in calibre, when collecting the metadata: 'ISF_Archivist & Twi'?

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by Tanjamuse

When I merge multiple stories downloaded from different sites, the Ids keep only one story link, but I would like to keep them all.

I know I can do that with a Story_URL column but I really like the other option of having it show the title of the story instead of just an ID-number.

Like the option for the AuthorHTML contra the Author URL.

Alternate if it could be possible to create a rule in the Ids column that shows the title instead of the website (see attachment) and then copy the Ids column to a StoryHTML column?

You can have multiple URL identifiers. You add them with the identifer "url" plus a number. You could have:

url:https://themainstorysite.com/story?id=12345
url1:https://theotherstorysite.com/story/43356
url2:https://yass.com/library/s/y/43356

But, I have no idea how FFF would handle this. It probably only looks at the "url" site.

For the ids column, by showing the title, do you mean the story title, or the site name. You can't do the former, but you can do the site name. This is done by adding an identifier rule. These are created in the calibre preferences on the "Look and feel" page under "Book details". Press the button to "Create rules to convert identifiers into links". This shows the current list of rules. You can add or edit them here. As an example, I have a rule for books from the MobileRead library. This has:

Key: mobileread
Name: MobileRead
Template: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t={id}

When I add a book from the library, I add an identifier "mobileread:1234". The details pane then shows "MobileRead" as a link and clicking the link takes me to "https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1234". You can do this for any site that you can work out the template and id for. FFF doesn't use them, but I use them for several sites. Or when I no longer need FFF to be able to download them.

[Tanjamuse]

I meant the story title, and can that be copied to a column without turning back into a link?

[davidfor]

You could put it in a text column a link with the appropriate HTML tags. But, what is the point? To me that would mean you have the story title displayed in multiple places. I've probably missed the point of what you are trying to do.

[Tanjamuse]

Is it something I can do batch in S&R?

When I merge stories, I would like to keep all the links to the original stories.

I already have the AuthorHTML column. I was looking for something similar for the title.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Tanjamuse

When I merge multiple stories downloaded from different sites, the Ids keep only one story link, but I would like to keep them all.

I know I can do that with a Story_URL column but I really like the other option of having it show the title of the story instead of just an ID-number.

Like the option for the AuthorHTML contra the Author URL.

That's not hugely unreasonable, I can add it in the next test version. However, it will be called titleHTML as storyHTML is dangerously ambiguous to me.

Originally Posted by Tanjamuse

Alternate if it could be possible to create a rule in the Ids column that shows the title instead of the website (see attachment) and then copy the Ids column to a StoryHTML column?

@davidfor clearly knows more about Ids than I do.