[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare - Page 692

ThreeLizards · 02-16-2025, 03:07 PM

I did it!

I got the title page looking all nice and fancy!

Spoiler:

And I added the code tag! (Didn't know about it, sorry)

(Just so flipping happy that I got that pretty looking title page.)

okay, so could I have your help again please? I noticed that sometimes the author's notes in a story can like bleed through, like there's not a clear delineation of when the note ends and the chapter begins. Is there a way I could add a horizontal line break between them?

Here is an example story that has an author's note, I chose something with a general rating https://archiveofourown.org/works/63...ters/161700646

I checked through the default.ini for it and all I found was this

Spoiler:

and I noticed that in custom output there was a thing for epub chapter, so like it looked like there was a place that a line break could be inserted

Spoiler:

JimmXinu · 02-16-2025, 07:55 PM

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Originally Posted by ThreeLizards

okay, so could I have your help again please? I noticed that sometimes the author's notes in a story can like bleed through, like there's not a clear delineation of when the note ends and the chapter begins. Is there a way I could add a horizontal line break between them?

Only with CSS.

If you open the resulting epub, there are classes applied to the tags wrapping the various notes. You can tweak appearance by adding CSS to output_css targeting those tags.

watani · 02-16-2025, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by JimmXinu

I don't recall hearing anything about an image problem. If the page is loaded, in theory the images should be cached. Unless the image site specifies no-cache or limited cache time.

Browser Cache is able to get cover/author images from ffnet...

Example story?

While I was citing Ao3 since I thought that was the reason why people were having issues getting images in their Ao3 fics when downloading from cache, the website I was thinking of was actually Fimfiction.

For example, in this story most chapters have small pictures used as section separators:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/550...puppy-season-7

These images do not appear to get cached, so they fail to get downloaded when getting the story from cache.

Complicating matters is that embedded external images get their URLs "camouflaged", but it should be possible to extract the original image URL from the actual URL since they seem to follow the same general structure:

Example:
https://camo.fimfiction.net/XyZqEwTY...%2FmzLp1ln.png

where the original image URL is: https://i.ibb.co/8xvNY6K/mzLp1ln.png

TaviCalderon · 02-16-2025, 11:24 PM

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Originally Posted by JimmXinu

I'd also change the first #multiseries in custom_columns_settings to 'r' mode to clear the pre-existing value on update. Otherwise, since it's a text column, you might end up with duplicates. (Depending on the custom column type. A 'tags' type text column could mask that.)

Code:

custom_columns_settings:
 series00=>#multiseries,r
 series01=>#multiseries,a
 series02=>#multiseries,a
 series03=>#multiseries,a
 series04=>#multiseries,a

this worked like a charm, thank you so much!!! i didn't realize i'd need to specify series00,series01,etc. instead of just using a generic "series" for replace_metadata lines...but in retrospect, duh. i knew it was something simple i just wasn't seeing. it always is, lol. clearing include_in_series also made things stop being wonky--i'm not sure where i even got that line from, but thank you for pointing that out.

noted, about the =~ for exclude_metadata_pre! i did not realize that was the prefered seperator, but i've fixed it for all of the other exclude_metadata_pre lines i have now.
i removed the Recommended Reading Order line from this section anyway, since i think your renaming convention under replace_metadata is a great idea. if i run into another series with a recommended reading order series tag and it does somehow manage to interfere/cause issues in the multiseries column, i'm sure i'll be circling back here anyway for assistance.

as for your final comment about the custom_columns_settings--this multiseries column i made is actually set up as a comma seperated text column, like tags, shown in the tag browser. i haven't seen duplicates like you're describing to date, even after fixing my ini and updating everything; i assume that's because i have it set up as a tags-type column. but do you think i should just keep it as "series00=>#multiseries,r" anyway? since clearing out pre-existing values on update is likely a good move regardless?? if you think so, i'll just keep it as ,r. let me know.

you're the best!! as always, thanks for the help!

JimmXinu · 02-16-2025, 11:46 PM

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Originally Posted by TaviCalderon

but do you think i should just keep it as "series00=>#multiseries,r" anyway? since clearing out pre-existing values on update is likely a good move regardless?? if you think so, i'll just keep it as ,r. let me know.

A 'tags' like text column will automatically de-dup. I noticed it because I was testing with a non-tags like text column and got duplicates immediately.

Depends on what you want. If using 'a' for all of them, if you manually add a value to the column, it will be preserved. OTOH, if the story changes from "Series [1]" to "Series [2]", you end up with both on update.

JimmXinu · 02-17-2025, 12:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by watani

For example, in this story most chapters have small pictures used as section separators:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/550...puppy-season-7

These images do not appear to get cached, so they fail to get downloaded when getting the story from cache.

Complicating matters is that embedded external images get their URLs "camouflaged", but it should be possible to extract the original image URL from the actual URL since they seem to follow the same general structure:

Example:
https://camo.fimfiction.net/XyZqEwTY...%2FmzLp1ln.png

where the original image URL is: https://i.ibb.co/8xvNY6K/mzLp1ln.png

If you don't set use_browser_cache_only:true, the BC feature will attempt to go to network for anything it doesn't find in cache. OTOH, that implicitly turns off open_pages_in_browser.

The Flaresolverr proxy code has a separate option for directimage, but that's because Flaresolverr doesn't download images at all anymore. And it looks like it's getting 403 blocked on direct images, too. So a direct download with Browser Cache wouldn't work, either.

Our code for images from xenforoforums (SB/SV/QQ/etc) stories can use the <img> tags' data-src or data-url attr.

The story you linked has a similar looking data-source attr. But I need a bigger sample set of stories with images to look at before I can confidently make that change for fimf. Hint-hint.

Also looks like the cover image download is broken--will try to fix.

JimmXinu · 02-17-2025, 10:33 PM

New Test Version Posted

2025-02-17
- adapter_fimfictionnet: Fix cover images and use data-source attr for img src.

watani got me some more story URLs to test with and my changes worked with them.

But only using Flaresolverr proxy with use_flaresolverr_proxy:directimages.

watani originally asked about browser cache--that still doesn't work. I'm not hugely interested in trying to figure out why not if Flaresolverr proxy works.

Anyssia · 02-19-2025, 05:42 AM

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Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Re: CloudFlare

Originally Posted by Anyssia View Post
It works for chaptered fics, but does anyone knows if there is a way to force Calibre/FFF to make a ToC even for one-shot fanfics, please?

FFF only writes a TOC if there's more than one chapter--that's currently hard coded.

I could add an option to force TOC generation if that's something that's useful to people. I'd need to review what it might do to epub update and anthology generation.

yes, I would like that, if it's possible, thank you

JimmXinu · 02-19-2025, 12:21 PM

New Test Version Posted

2025-02-17
- Add include_tocpage:always option.
- adapter_fimfictionnet: Further cover fix

Quote:

Originally Posted by Anyssia

yes, I would like that, if it's possible, thank you

Yes, you already said. I was asking more if anyone else would find it useful.

But it's a fairly small change that doesn't appear to affect anything else, so I went ahead with it.

Code:

## epub carries the TOC in metadata.
## mobi generated from epub by calibre will have a TOC at the end.
include_tocpage: false
## When set to 'true', tocpage is only included if there is more than
## one chapter in the story.  If set to 'always', tocpage will be
## included even if the story only has one chapter.
#include_tocpage: always

Note that:

Anthologies (and EpubMerge) reduces the anthology/merge ToC entry for single FFF chapter stories down to one entry, even if they have cover, title page and/or log page. It will not do that if there's a tocpage. If you've forced it on, I assume you want more ToC entries.
add_chapter_numbers still doesn't add a chapter number when there's only one chapter.

JimmXinu · 02-20-2025, 09:32 PM

New Test Version Posted

2025-02-20
- adapter_literotica: Get more story urls. #1159 Thanks, dbhmw

agumon1123 · Yesterday, 02:46 PM

FFN chapters keep disappearing and reappearing when i use the normal URLs but when i use the old version of URLs without the story title i can always see the chapter. is there any way for Fanficfare to use the URLs without the story title in them as default like it used to? that way i don't have to check every 5 mins to see if the URL works or it stops working in the middle of downloading the story.

with story title:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1444077...ctly-Unplanned
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1138615...We-Are-Revised

without story title:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14440772/1/
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11386159/31/

JimmXinu · Yesterday, 04:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by agumon1123

FFN chapters keep disappearing and reappearing when i use the normal URLs but when i use the old version of URLs without the story title i can always see the chapter. is there any way for Fanficfare to use the URLs without the story title in them as default like it used to? that way i don't have to check every 5 mins to see if the URL works or it stops working in the middle of downloading the story.

Maybe?

FFF keeps the story title in the chapter URLs because that's how they're linked on the pages. The intention is for users to be able to pre-cache the chapter pages by just clicking through the chapters.

If we strip off the story title off chapter URLs, you become reliant on open_pages_in_browser--or manually removing the story title in browser.

And, as you say, it's random. /s/11386159/31/All-We-Are-Revised started working again as I was looking at this.

Is it possible that non-titled URLs can also fail and you just didn't bump into any?

Yesterday, 02:46 PM	#10376
agumon1123 Member Posts: 21 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2016 Device: none	FFN chapters keep disappearing and reappearing when i use the normal URLs but when i use the old version of URLs without the story title i can always see the chapter. is there any way for Fanficfare to use the URLs without the story title in them as default like it used to? that way i don't have to check every 5 mins to see if the URL works or it stops working in the middle of downloading the story. with story title: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1444077...ctly-Unplanned https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1138615...We-Are-Revised without story title: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14440772/1/ https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11386159/31/ Last edited by agumon1123; Yesterday at 02:50 PM.

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JimmXinu Plugin Developer Posts: 6,702 Karma: 4600391 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Midwest USA Device: Kindle Paperwhite(10th)	New Test Version Posted 2025-02-17 - adapter_fimfictionnet: Fix cover images and use data-source attr for img src. watani got me some more story URLs to test with and my changes worked with them. But only using Flaresolverr proxy with use_flaresolverr_proxy:directimages. watani originally asked about browser cache--that still doesn't work. I'm not hugely interested in trying to figure out why not if Flaresolverr proxy works.

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JimmXinu Plugin Developer Posts: 6,702 Karma: 4600391 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Midwest USA Device: Kindle Paperwhite(10th)	New Test Version Posted 2025-02-20 - adapter_literotica: Get more story urls. #1159 Thanks, dbhmw