fanfic downloader!

[astridv]

I found a program that allows to download an entire fic at ffn (and other sites) into one textfile. I just downloaded a 15 chapter fic with three or four mouseclicks. No more pasting together 29 chapters one by one! I think this is the beginning of a wonderful friendship.

link: Fanfiction Downloader 4.0.3

Comments

[cathexys]

Now if it'd only do LJ!!! I have a post open in another tab that has over 50 parts. I don't wanna start d'loading, but I'll have to eventually...I want THAT tool :)

but yeah...great tool nonetheless!!!

[amalthia]

boy isn't that the truth. What's great is if the author has a master post you can use DownloadThemAll to download all the parts at once and use (Author Title of Story *text*.*ext*) in the renaming mask. If you have the greasemonkey script ?style=mine it'll automatically convert the downloaded files to ?style=mine. It helps with the downloading, not the merging.

[astridv]

Fortunately I rarely see multi-part fic on LJ, at least not more than 4 or 5 parts. But ffn was driving me nuts, because I print everything I read, and I reformat before I print, and I love multi-chapter longfic. That program is perfect for that!

That greasemonkey script sounds interesting.

[amalthia]

sadly most of what I read is on LJ. I'm very happy when I find out the author also posted to ff.net because I go there to get their story instead if it's an option. :)

[astridv]

Wow, I have never seen an LJ post with that many parts. o.O

[cathexys]

You're not reading any epic WiPs are you??? :)

[astridv]

I used to, but I haven't come across any epic WIPs in years. Or WIPs at all, come to think of it. They used to be really common in Bones; I remember reading 10 at a time and getting confused what scene had happened in which fic, but I never had the patienc to wait until the stories were finished. So I'm rather grateful that in SGA fandom most writers post their fic only when it's complete. And even back in Bones fandom, the long fic was mostly contained at ffn.

[amalthia]

This program is a life saver! Now if only someone can make one for LJ...

[sqweakie]

Oh my gosh...
I think I'm in love with you.
Thank you so much!!!
*goes off to download more stories*

[astridv]

Awesome, eh? :) I was saying, "little program, where were you all my life?"

[autumnus]

oh boy... thanks for this for someone on semi unreliable internet connection this is like essential (goes to download ff.net stories)

FanFic Downloader

[(Anonymous)]

Or you could try Story Master ( http://storymaster.the-code-monkey.com/ ). :) Nothing to download, works for PC and Mac, supports a few sites too and has multiple output formats including PDF, mobi, epub, html, txt and lit.

Re: FanFic Downloader

[astridv]

Cool, thanks for the tip. Fanfic Downloader stopped working for me properly so instead I've been using Fanfiction Lightweight Automated Grabber (FLAG) for a while.