[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[Leedie]

Hi!

Can you tell if it's possible to use FanFicFare to search&replace text in the body of fic? When it's downloaded, for example?

Such as replacing "labour" with "labor". Or, as another example, I read a lot of fics from Chinese fandoms and there are multiple technically correct translations of the same characters' names, and I would like to make all fics spell them the same way.

I already replaced all I need in metadata (using add_to_replace_metadata, FanFicFare was amazing at normalizing ship names across all fics!) but I'm having trouble doing it in the fics' text itself.

I can do that with Calibre's native Search&Replace, but it works one fic at a time and I might need tens or hundreds of fics edited at once, so doing it that way would be pretty time-consuming.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Leedie

Can you tell if it's possible to use FanFicFare to search&replace text in the body of fic? When it's downloaded, for example?

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I can do that with Calibre's native Search&Replace, but it works one fic at a time and I might need tens or hundreds of fics edited at once, so doing it that way would be pretty time-consuming.

It's been asked for before, but I've always been very hesitant to provide such a feature because it's so easy to shoot yourself in the foot, especially when you can't see the changes immediately and you don't have an Undo feature.

I've used the Action Chains plugin to call the Editor Chains Editor plugin to do saved find & replace on multiple books at once.

I honestly think that's a better option than re-running FFF on 10-100s of books.

[Leedie]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

It's been asked for before, but I've always been very hesitant to provide such a feature because it's so easy to shoot yourself in the foot, especially when you can't see the changes immediately and you don't have an Undo feature.

I've used the Action Chains plugin to call the Editor Chains Editor plugin to do saved find & replace on multiple books at once.

I honestly think that's a better option than re-running FFF on 10-100s of books.

Thank you for the response!

That does seem to be the most efficient efficient way of doing so. If anyone else is not that tech-savvy and need additional help setting a mass word replacer up, here's capink explaining what needs to be done step-by-step with an example replacer (labour->labor) file attached, it was really helpful in understanding how to set everything up.

While I'm here, please accept my most sincere thanks for making and supporting this plugin. I love archiving things for personal use, and this has been literally priceless for me. Let you always have never-ending flow of fics that are right to your interests and all the time in the world to indulge in them!

[MidwestJen]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Default setting for AO3 is slow_down_sleep_time:2

Does it help if that's doubled?

Sorry, I needed to wait until I had a few days worth stacked up in order to test it. I had one 429 error after adding this to my personal ini at 4. So it may help a bit. I may try 6 in a few more days to see if that helps if AO3 hasn't fixed the issue on their end.