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ds_noticeboard2022-09-20 07:20 pm
mific) wrote in ds_noticeboard2022-09-20 07:20 pm
Rumours of ff.net collapsing
Warnings about fanfiction (dot) net disappearing for good have intensified on tumblr. Obviously it's not a problem if the writers later uploaded their works to AO3, but there are some significant writers who never did.
The site's a nightmare to rescue fics from as it has barriers to copy-pasting, and now a captcha barrier to any downloading.
Ways around this that I've found:
- Use a pc and right-click to save the page as an html, which can later be resaved as a text file to get rid of unwanted crap. You lose any italics but at least the fic is saved and can be made into a pdf or ebook (if you prefer to read it that way).
- A better alternative is to see if the fic (often more than one page, if multiple chapters) has already been saved in Wayback. This only works if the Wayback link is fairly old, i.e. precedes the introduction of the captcha barrier. But there often are these older Wayback links, so I'm making summary documents with a working Wayback link (where all the chapter links also work) for each fic, for each author (doing SGA currently). I hope to be able to upload these as webpages to Fanlore, eventually, or maybe squidge.org might archive them.
Got any other fic-saving tips or tricks?
And can you think of any due South writers on the ff site and not on AO3 it'd be good to save/create one of these summary Wayback pages for?
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To be able to copy-paste text from FFN, change the 'www' in the URL to 'm'. You can then ctrl-A to get everything or select the text you want with your mouse.
Also, if you have firefox, you can install the Absolute Enable Right Click & Copy extension and it will remove that barrier for you.
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