FFN update broke DeFFNetIzer again

[grenouille]

FFN's latest update seems to have prevented DeFFNetIzer from finding the story title. Also, as a result, the chapters simply are saved in the root of the assigned save directory. As a workaround, you can manually enter a directory name, but the story title still doesn't appear on the index or chapter pages as designed.

Just thought I'd pass it along.

Mike

[Chad Peterson]

A new version has been released to fix this.

Thanks,
Chad

[grenouille]

You're a good man, Chad. Thanks for all your hard work.

Mike

At 06:51 PM 3/20/2013, you wrote:

A new version has been released to fix this.

Thanks,
Chad

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[Chad Peterson]

Not a problem.

We taking bets as to how long this fix lasts? I have a feeling that they are going to change something again soon...  :(

[grenouille]

Sucker bet *cheeky grin*.

Mike

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[Ronnie McMains]

It's putting the entire contents of the <title> field as the fic title. That includes 'Chapter 1', any chapter title the author gave it in the ff.net chapter menu, the category, and '| Fanfiction'. And then uses that as the directory name as well.

[Ronnie McMains]

On 3/21/2013 2:42 AM, Ronnie McMains wrote:
> It's putting the entire contents of the <title> field as the fic
> title. That includes 'Chapter 1', any chapter title the author gave it
> in the ff.net chapter menu, the category, and '| Fanfiction'. And then
> uses that as the directory name as well.

Correction: It's only doing it on some stories. Other stories it's just
using the story title.

These two stories work correctly.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8725571/1/Champions-of-the-Founders
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8986877/1/Godric-s-Blade

These stories have the problem I detailed in my earlier message.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6791390/1/Harry-Potter-Magical-Archaeologist
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6740104/1/Phoenix-From-The-Ashes

I unfortunately have no idea why either happens.

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[Larissa Reis]

That's because the code that removes the extra stuff is hardcoded to work only for harry potter fanfictions for some reason. The coder probably forgot to generalize. 

The solution would be either use an adequate regex to remove the extra text from the title html tag, or keep using the title from the story info table. The later was what I did:

        content = unicode(soup.first('body'))

        titleStart = content.find('<b>') + len('<b>')

        titleEnd = content[titleStart:titleStart+100].find('</b>')

        title = content[titleStart:titleStart + titleEnd]

2013/3/21 Ronnie McMains <ronnie....@gmail.com>

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[Chad Peterson]

And that's exactly what I did.  I'll put out another update to fix it later today.

Thanks,
Chad

[Bart S]

Thanks Chad! Don't know what most of us would do without you. Probably wallow in misery is my guess. ;)

[Ronnie McMains]

Just tried downloading this story:
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8045114/1/A-Marauder-s-Plan
and got a long-form title. Possibly because of the way the author has his chapters titled: The first chapter is entitled 'Initiating Operation Pronglet: Chapter 1' and De-FF.Net-izer gave the title as 'A Marauder's Plan Initiating Operation Pronglet:' Not sure if there's any way you can get around that.

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