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HI, I have a calibre conversion question fandom people might understand better than MobileRead forumers.

I had the fanfiction downloader program called Graffer installed on my comp. I was happy with it because it would download fics from multiple sources and produced clean html files. Unfortunately it's creator gave up on the program and it is no longer updated, and it has stopped working for several major archives.

My work on converting my fics via calibre is slow, ad I often want to chuck my comp out the window, that's how frustrated calibre makes me feel. I was expecting import and conversion to be fairly straightforward, but calibre kept messing up the authors. I finally loked at the html coding and discovered that Graffer added a line in the metadata section which calibre would read as author name, but was actually the name of the programmer: <meta name='author' content='Grzegorz Hordynski' />

I wet to MobileRead to see if I can find a way to change this line in the html file automatically through bulk convert, but couldn't figure out the instructions or the regexes. I've been having a back and forth conversation with a member who doesn't understand what I'm after, so does anyone here know how to set up calibre so that it changes the programmer's name into the correct author name for selected ebooks in the actual html file, not just in the metadata?

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Yes, I meant the bulk import -> search and replace. But I've never bulk imported myself, so I can't really help you if it doesn't work.

Re the "Title by author - Author.epub" -- is maybe the title tag in the meta info of the html set to "Title by author"? You might want to try removing that with the bulk import search and replace, too. It's going to fallback on filename for title, then, I think. If you convert one author folder at a time, you can just edit the author back in via bulk editing of meta tags.

No, look, I have to step outside for a while, I have an appointment to go to and will be back in an hour, and I'll try to explain better, but here's the html code for the beginning of the file so you can see what it looks like:

and from the file when opened normally:

Darling by agelade
A canon-compliant retelling of book 7, mostly from Draco's point of view. There's a good reason the Malfoys weren't immediately arrested after V was defeated, and it's not because his parents suddenly got lovey-dovey. Canon compliant, canon ships.
Story word count: 33355
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Yes, that's what I meant: the title tag is set to "Darling by agelade" (right below the offending author name.) So Calibre, quite rightfully, assumes that that's the title.

The regular expression to get rid of the whole title tag would be

<title>.*?</title>

I don't want to get rid of it, I want to replace the content inside the title tag. How do I do that? No, that wouldn't work, right? Because I want to do a bulk edit, and each story of course has a different title.

So tell me at least how do I replace the author tag with the correct author name? That at least should be the same for each selected story.

And how do I get it to take into account the correct order of the series? What is the naming convention I have to apply to the original file so that it is correctly recognized upon import?

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