[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by edeniz

Now the only remaining eyesore at AO3 is the author commentary thinly disguised as tags, but sadly, there is little to be done about that aside from inserting them to replace metadata as we encounter them.

The best solution I have for that is to use the include_metadata_post feature to only keep tags that you've explicitly allowed.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted (direct link).

Updates for (yet more) mediaminer.org changes.

I don't read that site, so I've only done spot checking. If you use mediaminer.org, please use this version for a while while watching for problems.

And FYI, the echo ' that appears at the end of every chapter is something mediaminer.org is putting there. I suggest somebody (who uses their site) ask them to fix it.

[edeniz]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

The best solution I have for that is to use the include_metadata_post feature to only keep tags that you've explicitly allowed.

Thank you for the tip.

[edeniz]

Sorry, me again. A bit of a problem I'm having with the new (and wonderful!) ship2chars feature.

Example fic:

http://archiveofourown.org/works/812190

In this story, the pairing is given as John/Rodney. Obviously "John" and "Rodney" as characters is a no-go, especially when the character list already contains "John Sheppard" and "Rodney McKay". So how do I rename the ship before the ship2char activates?

I thought I could fix it by simply adding to replace_metadata:

Spoiler:

 characters=>John=>John Sheppard&&category=>Stargate Atlantis
 characters=>Rodney=>Rodney McKay&&category=>Stargate Atlantis
 ships=>John/Rodney=>John Sheppard/Rodney McKay&&category=>Stargate Atlantis
 ships=>John/Rodney=>John Sheppard/Rodney McKay&&category=>Stargate: Atlantis

But that only caused the output to be a repeat, as in:

Spoiler:

John, John Sheppard Sheppard, Rodney, Rodney McKay McKay

I've reread the relevant wiki pages a few times over again, and I get the impression that the solution should be easy, that I'm overlooking something yet again, but no idea what. (Well, aside from deactivating ships2char for the fics in question, that is.)

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by edeniz

...
I thought I could fix it by simply adding to replace_metadata:

Spoiler:

 characters=>John=>John Sheppard&&category=>Stargate Atlantis
 characters=>Rodney=>Rodney McKay&&category=>Stargate Atlantis
 ships=>John/Rodney=>John Sheppard/Rodney McKay&&category=>Stargate Atlantis
 ships=>John/Rodney=>John Sheppard/Rodney McKay&&category=>Stargate: Atlantis

...

'John' and 'Rodney match and replace the first name parts of 'John Sheppard' and 'Rodney McKay'--which is functioning as designed.

Instead try:

 characters=>^John$=>John Sheppard&&category=>Stargate Atlantis
 characters=>^Rodney$=>Rodney McKay&&category=>Stargate Atlantis

^ matches beginning of a string and $ matches the end.

[edeniz]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

^ matches beginning of a string and $ matches the end.

I knew I was overlooking something obvious. Thank you very much!

[JimmXinu]

New version released:

Version 2.2.15 - 23 Nov 2015

- Add series00-04HTml to defaults.ini for AO3.

- Comment out debug that can cause additional errors depending on content.

- Add html5lib to more BS4 calls, convert another place to BS4.

- Fix for whofic.com with replace_br_with_p.

- Fix for UnNew epubs with & or double quote in chap title.

- Add sort_ships_splits and ships_CHARS.

- Reduce over long error msgs when editing personal.ini(plugin).

- Update translations(plugin).

- Change str() to unicode() many places.

- Make sort_ships honor doreplacements (and .NOREPL) flag.

- Updates for mediaminer.org.

[kakashi524]

Hi, I just updated the plugin and was about to download a story (http://storiesonline.net/s/76454/second-chance) when I got this error:
"None of the 1 URLs/stories given can be/need to be downloaded"

and this log:

Status: Bad
Title: Unknown
Author: Unknown
Comment: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
URL: http://storiesonline.net/s/76454

I tried a few more and I got the exact same error. I'm using Win 8.1 64-bit, Calibre 2.44.1 64-bit, FanFicFare 2.2.15. Thanks!

[Robin42069]

i got the same message as kakashi524 myself. it stopped working today

[JimmXinu]

Test version posted (direct link).

2015-11-23

- Update for changes to storiesonline.net site.

Site now requires https for login. But https doesn't work for story URLs.

[ij26]

Using the "Get Story URLs from Web Page" option doesn't quite work properly for Fimfiction. For example, when I try to use it with Pumpernickel Rye's stories page, I get:

Originally Posted by Story URLs, one per line

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/75907/5/the-queen-of-hearts/dating-damsels-in-distress-for-dragon-dummies

A link to a random chapter, instead of to the story as a whole. Using the chapter URL still downloads the whole story, but it's still odd.

More annoyingly, when I try to use it with Kkat's stories page, I get the message "No Valid Story URLs found on given page.". Presumably that's because both of their stories are rated Mature, and so hidden by default.

I have "is_adult:true" under "[www.fimfiction.net]" uncommented in personal.ini, but it doesn't seem to make a difference; apparently that's only referred to when saving fics, not when retrieving URLs.

Finally, the plugin apparently shrinks large images; leaving stories like Celestia by NTSTS unreadable.

(Still a great plugin for other uses, so thanks for all your work on it.)

[kakashi524]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Test version posted (direct link).

2015-11-23

- Update for changes to storiesonline.net site.

Site now requires https for login. But https doesn't work for story URLs.

I just tried the test version, it works fine for me. Thanks!

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ij26

Using the "Get Story URLs from Web Page" option doesn't quite work properly for Fimfiction. For example, when I try to use it with Pumpernickel Rye's stories page, I get:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/759...dragon-dummies

A link to a random chapter, instead of to the story as a whole. Using the chapter URL still downloads the whole story, but it's still odd.

That's a feature that was deliberately added by one of the other devs. I don't recall the exact reasoning anymore, but as long as it still works for everybody else, I'm prepared to live with slightly unsightly URLs.

Originally Posted by ij26

More annoyingly, when I try to use it with Kkat's stories page, I get the message "No Valid Story URLs found on given page.". Presumably that's because both of their stories are rated Mature, and so hidden by default.

I have "is_adult:true" under "[www.fimfiction.net]" uncommented in personal.ini, but it doesn't seem to make a difference; apparently that's only referred to when saving fics, not when retrieving URLs.

Correct. The Get Story URLs from Web Page isn't site specific like story downloading.

However, it does already have some code specifically for AO3 to login to see mature links. I will look into duplicating that for FimF.

Originally Posted by ij26

Finally, the plugin apparently shrinks large images; leaving stories like Celestia by NTSTS unreadable.

That is the default epub behavior, yes. Most ereader devices that I've tested with have small screens, only accept JPGs and don't like transparency.

However, you can turn that off in personal.ini with:

[epub]
## This switch prevents FanFicFare from doing any processing on the images.
## Usually they would be converted to jpg, resized and optionally made
## grayscale.
no_image_processing: true

[JimmXinu]

New test version posted (direct link).

2015-11-24

- Set is_adult cookie for FimF on 'Get URLs from Page' if set in personal.ini.

[ij26]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

That's a feature that was deliberately added by one of the other devs.

That's weird if true, but fair enough, I guess.

Correct. The Get Story URLs from Web Page isn't site specific like story downloading.

However, it does already have some code specifically for AO3 to login to see mature links. I will look into duplicating that for FimF.

Thanks. (Also, strictly speaking you don't have to log in to Fimfiction to see mature links; you just need the appropriate cookie set.)

That is the default epub behavior, yes. Most ereader devices that I've tested with have small screens, only accept JPGs and don't like transparency.

However, you can turn that off in personal.ini with:

[epub]
## This switch prevents FanFicFare from doing any processing on the images.
## Usually they would be converted to jpg, resized and optionally made
## grayscale.
no_image_processing: true

Done; thanks.

Incidentally, while editing personal.ini, I also noticed:

[www.fimfiction.net]
is_adult:true
#fail_on_password: false

Does uncommenting that allow password-protected stories to be downloaded? Why is it commented by default?