Downloading every fanfiction from AO3?

ivywong / ao3-downloader

Program to download AO3 series.

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Downloading every fanfiction from AO3? #2

Open FelSpaceFel opened 3 years ago

FelSpaceFel commented 3 years ago

Hello! First of all, thank you for making this application! But I need a large data set, it it possible to, say, download every fanfiction in Russian language that is on AO3? Or using other criteria. I'm very new to code, so sorry if I'm asking something stupid. This would greatly help me!

ivywong commented 3 years ago

Hi! Unfortunately there is no way to do that at this time. This tool only supports downloading series and standalone fics. While it's theoretically possible to add support for that, it won't be easy unless AO3 adds public API support (right now I'm just parsing all the HTML on a page and grabbing what looks like the right links).