[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[JimmXinu]

Sorry, I don't know what's going on with that log.

There is duplication of some output (or possibly two instances running??) and everything is out of order from what I see when I run debug.

There's a debug output from FFF initialization:

FFF: DEBUG: 2024-08-07 15:55:28,248: calibre_plugins.fanficfare_plugin.fff_plugin(217): Plugin FanFicFare macmenuhack file_path:C:\Users\ljcod\AppData\Roaming\calibre\plugins\fanficfare_macmenuhack.txt

But it should be appearing after most of the other lines.

[johansolo]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

There is an issue with Ubuntu and Debian packaged Calibre not working recently. My response is to use the official Calibre download.

(Near as I can tell, the problem is python3-urllib3_2.0.7 not requiring python3-requests-toolbelt? Users report success installing python3-requests-toolbelt or downgrading python3-urllib3 to 1.26.18.)

If you are using the official Calibre download, I want to know about.

I was able to fix that problem using:

pip install --upgrade twine requests-toolbelt

I wrote about in this very thread.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...postcount=9791

[applegaa]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

New Test Version Posted

2024-07-16
- Allow scribblehub.com story URLs w/o title and search calibre w/o title



I feel like this has come up before. But it may have been a different site.

Let's try this: I've changed the adapter to accept URLs w/o title, but to still use it, and code to that Plugin that searches for existing books without the title.

I don't read this site, so I'm depending on you guys to tell me if it does something unintended.

The test version was working great and I didn't run into any issues with it.
I finally got around to installing the new monthly version today and it doesn't appear to have this functionality. Was there a reason it got pulled?

- Andrew

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by applegaa

The test version was working great and I didn't run into any issues with it.
I finally got around to installing the new monthly version today and it doesn't appear to have this functionality. Was there a reason it got pulled?

- Andrew

That change is included in the released version. I double checked the posted zip.

[applegaa]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

That change is included in the released version. I double checked the posted zip.

Calibre shows version 4.37.0 as Installed and Available.

I just restarted in debug mode and then used the following as my test cases. I did verify that they all ended up at the first URL when entered in my browser.

https://www.scribblehub.com/series/1...rawler-litrpg/
https://www.scribblehub.com/series/1...ake-name-here/
https://www.scribblehub.com/series/1...fake-name-here
https://www.scribblehub.com/series/1144593/
https://www.scribblehub.com/series/1144593

The "fake-name-here" URLs actually matched the existing story and asked if I wanted to update the URL. I'm not sure why it worked today but not last night. I'll keep watching and see if it happens again.

However, the ability to enter a URL without a title still doesn't work. The last two URLs above were just ignored by FanFicFare. It wouldn't pick them up from the clipboard and did nothing if I manually pasted them in. That's not a critical feature for me, but I wanted to mention it.

I'm not including the debug log because the title change worked and the no title URLs were not even logged.


For the record, from last night's failure, this was the old URL:
https://www.scribblehub.com/series/8...-thief-litrpg/
And this was the URL that resulted in a new epub:
https://www.scribblehub.com/series/8...-arcane-thief/
The author's name and URL did not change. Also, yes, this is the same story that prompted my original request. Snollygoster really likes to change the name around.

Okay, new wrinkle... Before posting this I got the bright idea, since it was working now, to delete the new epub and update the old one. I didn't think to restart in debug mode this time, sorry, but I gave it the new URL and it's now downloading all 193 chapters again instead of updating the existing 192 chapter epub.

After using the "new" URL from last night, I discovered that the name and URL has changed again. The newest new one is:
https://www.scribblehub.com/series/8...-thief-litrpg/

Curious what would happen, I dumped that URL into FanFicFare. Rather than complaining that it couldn't determine which book to update or simply downloading a third copy of it, it actually matched up to the new epub and asked if I wanted to update the URL. However, it didn't actually update it. All that it updated was the Title itself. I'll try again when there is actually a new chapter to add, as maybe the URL change got dropped without that update?

I am so confused right now...

- Andrew