[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[JimmXinu]

The recommended mode of operation is to notification emails to drive updates, either manually (you can drag story links or blocks of html/text containing story links onto the FFF plugin button or into the FFF Add Stories from URL dialog) or with FFF's email integration. FAQ: https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFa...ck-for-updates

If you choose to download a bunch to start with, I recommend only doing smallish groups of stories at a time (say 10-30) and waiting 10-30 minutes between batches.

Those are just my guesses, however. I don't have any firm data on when AO3 starts blocking or throttling users making too many downloads, but we do know it can happen.

[ThatLibraryRat]

I don't do the email alert cause I check the website regularly

So is there a way to grab a bunch of the url off a profile tho? Or should I go by url for each page of results in bookmarks?

[Betelgeuse]

Hey everyone! I'm having some trouble with Calibre and thought someone here could help me. I mainly download stories from RoyalRoad in batches, and while attempting to do so it gave me an error message like this:

Status: Error
Title: Unknown
Author: Unknown
Comment:'NoneType' object has no attribute 'text'

I tried downloading something from AO3 instead, and it let me do that. I also tried redownloading another story I had originally got from RoyalRoad, and I had the same problem. I've already updated Calibre, so I'm really not sure where to go from here. Any help would be appreciated.

[Betelgeuse]

Nevermind! Rookie mistake. I obviously should have checked the thread to see if anyone had a similar complaint.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2023-02-26
- adapter_fictionlive: fix #922 -- call utf8fromSoup exactly once - Thanks, HazelSh!

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ThatLibraryRat

So is there a way to grab a bunch of the url off a profile tho? Or should I go by url for each page of results in bookmarks?

The 'Get Story URLs from Web Page' feature only works on one page at a time. Partially because it's generalized so it works on almost all web pages regardless of where and partially to not enable overly massive downloads.

[Betelgeuse]

I'm not sure how to extract the zip file into the right folder (or even what to extract) so I tried to edit the RoyalRoad adapter file manually, downloaded Python from the Microsoft store, and now it won't let me open the file at all. The window appears for a split second and then closes. Any help would be appreciated.

[JimmXinu]

The test version is linked in my sig text.

The intro to plugins thread first post has detailed instructions on how to install a plugin from file under "How do I install a plugin manually?"

It's also linked in the test version post immediately above the zip file.

[ownedbycats]

At current, populating a single column without running over the rest requires checking 'new only' on pretty much everything and commenting out custom_column_settings.

I've used search & replace from the longtext column, but this provides only the original value without any replace_metadatas.

Would there be much general use for a "update specific column(s) from stored column/website"?

[ThatLibraryRat]

I see, thank you for your answers and patience

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Would there be much general use for a "update specific column(s) from stored column/website"?

I would need to see a pretty huge amount of interest from a lot of users to consider that...

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

I would need to see a pretty huge amount of interest from a lot of users to consider that...

That makes sense.

What about something similar to Calibre's metadata download config, with select all/select none/select default/set default? (Even all/none would be a help.)

[criscros]

This is probably a simple thing, but despite all my searches and reading the ini files, I haven't figured it out.

I like having the author's notes, but most have several links and I always seem to activate them. The majority of the fics I follow are on Royal Road.

Is there a way to eliminate clickable links in the stories I download?
Thanks!

[JimmXinu]

I don't recall anyone asking for that before.

You can effectively remove HTML links by using a keep_html_attrs setting that doesn't have href in it. It's set in defaults.ini under [defaults], so you could override it under [defaults] or specific site section(s) in personal.ini:

[defaults]
keep_html_attrs:name,class,id,colspan,rowspan,data-orighref

Then new downloads/updates will not have the href attributes on <a> tags that make them links. The <a> tags will still be there, but without href attrs they are basically invisible.

[Mandabar]

Anyone having issues with Royalroad again? I downloaded the test version to fix the previous issue from a few days ago, but getting a different error now.

("Connection broken: InvalidChunkLength(got length b'', 0 bytes read)", InvalidChunkLength(got length b'', 0 bytes read))

I don't get this error trying to update a story, just trying to get this story. https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/22019

Edit: Seemed to start working a few minutes later so Nvm