fictionhunt problem

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elena valentini

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Mar 8, 2019, 7:37:06 AM3/8/19
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hello, a couple of days ago fictionhunt.com renewed their site, it's now no longer supported by ficfare, at least i couldn't download any fics from their site, could you change it? i hope someone can help, thanks in advance
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Jim Miller

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Mar 8, 2019, 11:21:15 AM3/8/19
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fictionhunt.com used to be a very stripped down archive of stories
copied from fanfiction.net.

It looks like they've now added separate story metadata and author
pages. Before, author URLs for fictionhunt.com were just the original
author URLs from fanfiction.net.

That means there's more metadata available, such as story summaries and
proper chapter names; but it also means that a lot needs to be changed.

In fact, it's practically a new site now--with the added complication of
needing to still support the previous style of story URLs.

I'll look at it, but no promises at the moment. I'm not sure it's worth
the effort to support a site that, near as I can tell, still doesn't
have any content of it's own--it only copies stories from fanfiction.net...

(If anyone can show me story URLs on fictionhunt.com for content that's
not on fanfiction.net, it will help the case for supporting it.)

Jim

Jim Miller

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Mar 8, 2019, 5:53:26 PM3/8/19
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I've posted a test version of the plugin here:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3084025#post3084025

Test version of web service here:
https://3-5-5-dot-fanficfare.appspot.com/

Test version of CLI for pip install: You'll have to get it from the
testpypi repository. This works for me on Debian:

pip install --extra-index-url https://testpypi.python.org/pypi --upgrade
FanFicFare

Change in this version:

2019-03-08
- Update adapter_fictionhuntcom for significant site changes.

2019-03-03
- Collect ships and description in adapter_harrypotterfanfictioncom.

2019-02-13
- Some AO3 stories don't have fandom tags.

## Issues with fictionhunt.com:

- The site will list stories it doesn't actually have the text for, such as:

removed from ffnet:
https://fictionhunt.com/stories/3pgjrn4/kannas-meeting

still on ffnet, but no chapter text on fictionhunt:
https://fictionhunt.com/stories/3re99j1/fairy-tail-new-year-special

- 'Last Updated' is *not* the last update date from the source story on
ffnet. It's probably some kind of 'fictionhunt updated' stamp. The
apparently update/published dates are still in the author pages, though.
(Fictionhunt does show some chapter dates, but only for the first few.)
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