On Downloading Fic
May. 7th, 2020 10:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quietmoonI never used to download fic — honestly, I'd hear about it, and wonder why people went to such great lengths when they could just bookmark it or add it to their favourites or something. Twelve years in fandom later, I have very much learned my lesson. orz
So I was wondering if anyone had any advice on how to go about doing this? On cataloguing and stuff, I was thinking maybe making an excel spreadsheet to help with navigation and general safety-netting for my terrible memory, but I haven't gotten any further than that thought lol. Also, any recommendations on archiving from FFn.net and LJ? I'm browsing myself for any information I can find, but everything I've seen so far is from 2012 and I didn't know if any better methods have cropped up since then. Instapaper seems to be promising? I don't know.
I bought a very cute Ravage USB and I thought I could save it on there (as well as to the cloud). When I went to find it, though, I found it... and the detached tail. Seems my cats got to her before I did. I now have a very cute tailless 32GB Ravage.
Anyway, if you have any helpful links lying around, please do toss them my way. :3 I'd love to hear any stray thoughts on archiving fic in general, too. I haven't put much here because I don't really know what I have to add beyond 'websites crash, fics disappear, i have been burned but it has shown me the light' lol.
So I was wondering if anyone had any advice on how to go about doing this? On cataloguing and stuff, I was thinking maybe making an excel spreadsheet to help with navigation and general safety-netting for my terrible memory, but I haven't gotten any further than that thought lol. Also, any recommendations on archiving from FFn.net and LJ? I'm browsing myself for any information I can find, but everything I've seen so far is from 2012 and I didn't know if any better methods have cropped up since then. Instapaper seems to be promising? I don't know.
I bought a very cute Ravage USB and I thought I could save it on there (as well as to the cloud). When I went to find it, though, I found it... and the detached tail. Seems my cats got to her before I did. I now have a very cute tailless 32GB Ravage.
Anyway, if you have any helpful links lying around, please do toss them my way. :3 I'd love to hear any stray thoughts on archiving fic in general, too. I haven't put much here because I don't really know what I have to add beyond 'websites crash, fics disappear, i have been burned but it has shown me the light' lol.
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Date: 2020-05-12 04:14 pm (UTC)You have to do things, I'm afraid -- read the 'Getting Started' section https://gitlab.com/antarcticite/ao3-bulk-downloader/#getting-started and let me know if I can clear anything up for you. Follow 'Install Python' from this article https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/python/beginners#install-python and then the rest of the steps from my README. 'Navigate to the folder...' means you have to unzip the code somewhere, copy that folder's path, and type 'cd YOURPATH' into the shell. Step 3 is 'python -m pip install -r requirements.txt', and 4 is 'python ao3-bulk-dl.py [your options]' on Windows 10, unless I'm mistaken (don't have a Windows machine to check rn). Let me know how it goes :)