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DreamCobbler / fiction-dl

A content downloader, capable of retrieving works of (fan)fiction from the web and saving them in a few common file formats.
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Feature Request: Nifty.org HTML chapters. #14

Closed jtoronto closed 3 years ago

jtoronto commented 3 years ago

Seems F-DL only works on plain-text chapters, but unfortunately some authors use HTML pages for each chapter and the extractor doesn't seem to work with those, generating the error:

ERROR:root:Failed to read metadata from the first chapter of the story.
ERROR:root:Failed to scan the story.
DreamCobbler commented 3 years ago

Since HTML-formatted stories don't use any consistent format for metadata, implementing this is currently impossible.

(f-dl needs to know where to look for metadata it requires, and lack of a constant layout of a page makes the problem of reading the information unsolvable. Text stories have their metadata in the first three lines - most of the text stories, anyway - so they can be read, but the structure of the page of HTML stories is dependent on the author's whim and nothing else.)