[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by chrissv

Is there a particular setting I need to set to make it work for me? I haven't adjusted any of the default FFF settings.

I don't know. There are a bunch of settings that could cause that--if you hadn't changed something from the default settings, I would expect you to get covers.

I've tried to cover enumerate all the options and common use cases in the cover wiki page.

If you think something is broken, you can try a download in debug mode and post the output log.

Originally Posted by steltek

I've used the BrowserCache feature with AO3 several times before when Cloudflare's protection levels get raised. It works, but sometimes it acts a little squirrelly due to the FFF login not working with AO3 and the need to log in to read some fics (once or twice, I've even had it try to force me to log in when importing from the cache). Also, you may have to set both the flag for FFF not to open any pages in the browser (for those fics requiring a login to read) and the flag forcing it to only use the browser cache for those login-only fics.

That sounds about right. If it works, great; but it's not been the target site for Browser Cache.

Originally Posted by steltek

EDIT: One thing it does not do from the browser cache feature is to properly import art pages within a fic if the fic happens to have them. The regular AO3 adapter handles them just fine.

If you give me a story URL (SFW please), I'll look at it.

[steltek]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

I don't know. There are a bunch of settings that could cause that--if you hadn't changed something from the default settings, I would expect you to get covers.

I've tried to cover enumerate all the options and common use cases in the cover wiki page.

If you think something is broken, you can try a download in debug mode and post the output log.

That sounds about right. If it works, great; but it's not been the target site for Browser Cache.


If you give me a story URL (SFW please), I'll look at it.

Well, let me backtrack on that. It isn't working at all now. Maybe it was just slipping something through Cloudflare and I wasn't realizing what was going on. Next time Cloudflare does its thing for me on AO3 I'll try again and let you know what I find out.

[ownedbycats]

@JimmXinu - did you add a lightbulb icon to the thread when editing? I noticed it a day or two ago.

[Clem2605]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

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Are these set? It's been a while since I set this up so I might be misremembering.

That's exactly how I set it up, but I get nothing in the intended column...

Edit: GOT IT! I was trying to make sure that it worked with another 'tag like' data, but turn out that my tags were in the 'genre' data.
Why? I have no idea, but it works as intended now, so I'm not asking to many questions xD

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

@JimmXinu - did you add a lightbulb icon to the thread when editing? I noticed it a day or two ago.

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I did. No particular reason--raise visibility a little.

[chrissv]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

If you think something is broken, you can try a download in debug mode and post the output log.

Hi, thanks. Here's a debug log downloading https://finestories.com/s/11249/dead-end

Hope something stands out.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by chrissv

Can FFF download the cover images from Stories Online? I have epub as my output format, but don't see any downloaded covers. Didn't see an obvious FFF configuration setting to enable this - sorry if I missed it.

Originally Posted by chrissv

Hi, thanks. Here's a debug log downloading https://finestories.com/s/11249/dead-end

	Download Results:
	Add https://finestories.com/s/11249/dead-end Download mobi completed, 39 chapters.

FFF's mobi output doesn't support images.

I don't recommend anyone use FFF's mobi output. I recommend using epub output to allow for updates and use Calibre Convert to azw3 for Kindle.

[chrissv]

OK, now this is strange. I had switched between EPUB and MOBI many times and I swear no covers came down either time. But I went back to EPUB to get logs showing the missing covers, and sure enough the cover was captured this time!

I don't know what I did different - maybe fiddled with some settings. But it appears to work now.

Strange...

[XRoverMaelstromX]

Is there a way to re-generate the title page without having to do a full overwrite of the epub? I downloaded a number of fics before realizing I could change the way the title page generated and I want to fix those now that I have my title page settings changed, but as far as I can tell the only way to do that with existing books is to use the "overwrite always" setting.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by XRoverMaelstromX

Is there a way to re-generate the title page without having to do a full overwrite of the epub? I downloaded a number of fics before realizing I could change the way the title page generated and I want to fix those now that I have my title page settings changed, but as far as I can tell the only way to do that with existing books is to use the "overwrite always" setting.

If you downloaded to epub, you can do Update EPUB Always. FFF will still go to the site to collect the metadata, but will reuse the existing chapters.

If you downloaded to a different format, Overwrite Always is the only option to update title page. I recommend downloading to epub and converting as needed for all users.

If you aren't already, you should also look at creating and using a custom column for storing FanFicFare Metadata. It won't help with updating the title page inside the epub, but it will let you update Calibre metadata without more network traffic later.

[kagekarasu]

fanficfare doesn't work anymore on fimfiction.net, yesterday it worked but when i tried updating a fic today i got this error message
"HTTP Error in FFF '403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/550684/'(403)"
i tried with other fics and the result was the same.

[JimmXinu]

Cloudflare strikes again. It's a 403 block and the response headers indicate cloudflare as the server type.

Using flaresolverr seems to work in my limited testing, with the limitation of not getting images.

(I haven't tested with BrowserCache because I don't expect it to work. Response header says cache: max-age=0.)

[kagekarasu]

ok, it work with flaresolverr, even if it take way longer now.

[JimmXinu]

New Version Released

Version 4.38.0 - 2024-09-01
- Chrome Simple Browser Cache extra field fix (Mac/Linux)
- adapter_scribblehubcom: Allow for changing title in story URL.
- Update adapter_syosetucom.py (#1095) Fix update retrieval for series not completed, thanks dado330
- Make CLI username prompt more visible
- Update translations

[John Maverick]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Cloudflare strikes again. It's a 403 block and the response headers indicate cloudflare as the server type.

Using flaresolverr seems to work in my limited testing, with the limitation of not getting images.

Since months ago flaresolverr doesn't work for me with ff.net. I tried today again with the latest version but got the same error as always.

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

(I haven't tested with BrowserCache because I don't expect it to work. Response header says cache: max-age=0.)

But BrowserCache is still working fine for me. At least for now.