sanskarchand / forwantofanail

ffnet client for desktop

Current usage: python selenium_dl.py --skip-image If Cloudflare keeps asking you to prove you're a human (and this tends to happen in a loop recently), simply copy and paste the URL into a new tab manually, exit the browser, and restart the program again.

Note: Please provide the path to your chrome executable in selenium_dl.py. This program is untested on windows, so in case you get an error, please try to manually override the DATA_DIR variable.

Note2: Requires python 3.10 (for match-case syntax)

Note3: Please use the --skip-image option with selenium_dl.py

Disclaimer: The file res/ffnet_icon.png belongs to FictionPress and not to me. It is provided here as a sample. This program is not affiliated with FictionPress or fanfiction.ne in any way.

Dependencies:

• Qt5
• html5lib
• undetected_chromedriver
• cloudscraper (unused for now)
• Selenium (with chromedriver) [optional]

Current Capabilites:

• Downloading stories
• Basic Library
• Rudimentary Reading

To add:

• Custom tagging and filtering [in-progress/half-done]
• Bulk downloads

Screenshot(s)

Downloads tab: Reader tab: Details tab: Library tab: Sample metadata:

forwantofanail's Issues

Make the GUI downloader functional again

Having to rely on selenium_dl.py is dump.
Also, try to make the entire process seamless.
Also remove python 3.10 dependency; go back to 3.8

Improve fic parser

The current fic parser is spectacularly bad - it's full of short-term fixes built up upon what was already a very stupidly made parser. Right now, to accommodate any possibility (e.g. fic has no followers, or is a one-shot), we need a new conditional branch. It's hard to read, hard to improve, and, above all, spiritually offensive.

Update and bookmarks

Allow updates and bookmarks.

1. Since ffnet is using cloudflare, this will be tough to do seamlessly.
2. The GUI reader should continue from where the reader left off.

Replace directory-based db with sqlite

Better serialization

The current serializer (and deserializer) enumerates all field explicitly. This is horrifyingly bad.

Should use a dataclass (with as_dict) or something.