Webnovel - Chapter contents are not being downloaded

[ghost]

As it says in the title FFF stopped downloading contents of the chapters from webnovel. Everything else works perfectly, it gets synopsis/summary, tags, image, update date and so on and creates an epub but when I open the epub what I see is like below:

Usual info about the fic

Chapter 1 Chapter title

[No actual chapter text]

Chapter 2 Chapter title

[No actual chapter text]

Chapter 3 Chapter title

[No actual chapter text]

for however many chapters the fanfic has. Tried it with few fics randomly some I was already following some new, happened with all of them.

[JimmXinu]

The site has started putting the chapter text in javascript data objects instead of HTML.

It may or may not be feasible to parse it out in FFF. I'm looking into it.

[JimmXinu]

I've pushed a first cut fix (ff0a9a73354634343e2666bd504319e1c50fc8f7) and put test versions in the usual places.

I've only tested with a few chapters of a few stories. I won't be surprised if there are further issues.

[CodeyAce95]

webnovel still not working

[JimmXinu]

It appears to be working for me in the test version. Did you follow the link and install the test version with:

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

Or from the mobileread forum if you use the plugin. You didn't mention which you use.

If you are using the test version, please provide a story URL that exhibits the problem--It's working with the ones I'm picking off the front page.

[ghost]

I tried the test plugin from mobileread when the first attempt at a fix was made, didn't work for me either. Example story URLs: https://www.webnovel.com/book/a-hero-arrives-to-orario-(percy-jackson-danmachi_22964156406510905 https://www.webnovel.com/book/a-bend-in-time-mina_22308746505503205

Example stories are short 2 and 5 chapters respectively but I tried few other stories from the below link as well with the same result. https://www.webnovel.com/stories/fanfic-book-literature?bookStatus=0&orderBy=5

[JimmXinu]

Looks like I uploaded an outdated PI version the previous time--sorry. I've updated and posted again to make sure it's up to date.

FYI, I tend to assume users opening issues here are CLI unless told otherwise.

[ghost]

Yep. It's working now. (v4.11.9) Thank you very much. Issue is solved so I'm closing it.

[JimmXinu]

Reason for reopening issue?

[ghost]

I've noticed if story/chapter contains the character "&" JSONDecodeError gets thrown. Tried it with both test plugin and CLI version. For example: fanficfare -b 178 -e 178 https://www.webnovel.com/book/frost's-greed-(marvel)_22100415205261005

I've tried looking for other characters that could similarly cause issues but couldn't find any other yet. Adding "&" to unescape regex in webnovel adaptor seems to fix it.

Sorry for re-opening the issue tbh I didn't know if I should re-open or create a new one but here we go.

[JimmXinu]

I thought there might be more escapes to be found.

Reopening is fine, I just thought you'd mis-clicked or something when there wasn't a new comment.

Test versions up.

[CodeyAce95]

i am using the zip file from mobile read on the windows calibre app but maybe i got thr wrong file

[CodeyAce95]

this is one thats not working https://www.webnovel.com/book/rebirth-of-the-mightiest-disciple-(reboot)_13520985605105905

[CodeyAce95]

it works but i have to redownload the story

[JimmXinu]

What chapter does it fail at?

[JimmXinu]

I was able to download the story mentioned above without any apparent problems.

If you have specific problems you can point to, you can reopen this issue.