[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by zeusosphere

I've been having an issue with FFN for a while (within the last several weeks) where the fic is updated but every single new chapter except the first fails. I've updated Calibre to 7.24, Fanficfare to the latest version, restarted Calibre and Firefox (my default browser), cleared Firefox's FFN cache, and set the browser cache age limit to -1. The only change has been for the worse, because now FFF doesn't open the webpages automatically on Firefox anymore and just keeps giving me 'Page not found or expired' errors despite me manually opening the page in Firefox anew. Please help!

Not knowing the story URL to try myself, or seeing the error message, I can only speculate.

We had a user last month reporting that on Mac FFF open_pages_in_browser wasn't working (#1142). They were looking into Calibre's openers_by_scheme tweak setting, but never reported back.

What I have seen personally on ffnet lately is the chapter list on first chapter not showing all chapters, even hours after a new chapter dropped. In fact, it's still not listing the last chapter.

Generally, I've been able to get these to work by temporarily setting check_next_chapter and/or meta_from_last_chapter:

[www.fanfiction.net]
check_next_chapter:true
meta_from_last_chapter:true

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ThreeLizards

I did a google search for anything in containing personal.ini. Do you have a suggestion on words to use to search to find more information that y'all might've discussed over the years?

MobileRead has a built-in search, but it's not the greatest. While googling, I add site:mobileread.com to limit results to this site and search for key words in quotes, ie: "replace_metadata".

Originally Posted by ThreeLizards

Also, another question for you, I typically only care about one pairing in the story and the other side pairings don't matter and basically could clutter up stuff. Is there a way that I could exclude these "extra" pairings?

Sounds like you want the include/exclude feature:

include_metadata_post:
 ships_modified==BobaDin
 ships_modified==Kalluzeb
...

Include means include only these, post means apply it after replace_metadata to take advantage of your data normalization.

[zeusosphere]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Not knowing the story URL to try myself, or seeing the error message, I can only speculate.

Generally, I've been able to get these to work by temporarily setting check_next_chapter and/or meta_from_last_chapter:

[www.fanfiction.net]
check_next_chapter:true
meta_from_last_chapter:true

I've just tried changing these settings but I'm still getting the same error and FFF is not opening the pages in the browser again when it opened one earlier (I've set my browser cache limit back to 12). Here are the job results if it helps (these aren't the only fics I've had this problem with, I'm pretty sure I'm getting the same error with all fics from FFN):

Spoiler:

Status
Title
Author
Comment
URL
Error
Instar
Lomonaaeren
HTTP Error in FFF 'Page not found or expired in Browser Cache (see FFF setting browser_cache_age_limit)'(428) URL:'https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14007493/1/Instar'
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14007493/1/Instar
Error
Crimson Threads
Blushweaver
HTTP Error in FFF 'Page not found or expired in Browser Cache (see FFF setting browser_cache_age_limit)'(428) URL:'https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12906378/1/Crimson-Threads'
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12906378/1/Crimson-Threads
Error
Feather and Glass
Lomonaaeren
HTTP Error in FFF 'Page not found or expired in Browser Cache (see FFF setting browser_cache_age_limit)'(428) URL:'https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14119013/1/Feather-and-Glass'
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1411901...ther-and-Glass

Thanks for the advice though!

[JimmXinu]

There's a new comment over on github that reminded me about that issue.

A couple different Firefox users have had settings/add-ons that prevented the browser from caching to disk and thus preventing FFF from reading it.

Maybe that will help.

[ThreeLizards]

Thank you for the stuff about the include! I added that and it works so well. I was wondering if I could have a little more of your help please?

I don't know if you'd be able to help as it's more of a book formatting thing.

I noticed that some writers will have <p><br></P> and that will add an extra line break. Now when I convert the files to AZW3, I already have it set to remove those line breaks but it doesn't remove the extra ones. Is there I way I could set it up so that it removes those during the downloading? Or is that more of a conversion thing?

Thank you again for all your help!

[JimmXinu]

FFF doesn't offer as much in the way of story text editing. Too much chance of a misconfiguration destroying the text.

We do have replace_br_with_p:

## Some sites/authors/stories use br tags instead of p tags for
## paragraphs.  This feature uses some heuristics to find and replace
## br paragraphs with p tags while preserving scene breaks.
#replace_br_with_p: false

I will warn you, I didn't write that feature, I don't generally use it, and I don't really know how it decides what to do. It may not help with your specific issues at all.

Here's a post from a few years, and another even older. I do still like the shotgun stirrup analogy.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by ThreeLizards

Thank you for the stuff about the include! I added that and it works so well. I was wondering if I could have a little more of your help please?

I don't know if you'd be able to help as it's more of a book formatting thing.

I noticed that some writers will have <p><br></P> and that will add an extra line break. Now when I convert the files to AZW3, I already have it set to remove those line breaks but it doesn't remove the extra ones. Is there I way I could set it up so that it removes those during the downloading? Or is that more of a conversion thing?

Thank you again for all your help!

I use Editor Chains to run a s&r remove this. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=343178

Might be able to hook it into Action Chains post-download chain. But don[t know if will work. or break things. I do it manually.

[Tharos]

I get the following error message for a few stories on AO3:

name 'six' is not defined

It happens for example around the following story: https://archiveofourown.org/works/56838709

I am using Calibre 7.25 and the latest test version 4.42.2.

Edit: I also get the same error message for a few stories on FFN. Example: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1409896...-The-Lost-Ones

Edit2: With the latest version 4.42.0 it works without any problems. The error message does not appear.

[JimmXinu]

Debian made a change recently (removing six) that broken FFF when used with their bundled Calibre. But I thought fixed it in the current test version.

What is your OS? And are you using official Calibre, or an OS provided build?

Can you run in debug (under Calibre Preferences dropdown), try again and attach the debug log?

[Tharos]

I use Windows 10 and should not actually be affected by the changes.
Calibre is the version from calibre-ebook.com.

I'll create a log this evening after work.

[lemonsqueezie]

Is there an easy way to prevent FanFicFare from including images?