I've been using nianeya's tool the last couple of days and I will note that it's very finicky. I couldn't use the most recent version of python, and had to go back to 3.10.8 instead. I've also had to delete and re-unzip a few times, including once when I mistyped my password. Having a password is only to get locked fics, so I gave it the username and password for an old account I'd made once when I was testing things.
It does page through all subpages automatically, but you should check the counts to make sure it got everything. I've had to rerun it to get everything, but it doesn't redownload fics already in its folder, so it won't get everything a second time. I clear out the fics anyway and put them into folders by fandom and author, but if you want to re-download a WIP that updated, make sure to delete the old file first.
Its killer features for me are 1) the fics are retitled so it starts with the fic ID, which means I don't end up with "Double Drabble.pdf" and "Double Drabble (1).pdf" from other download methods cropping the file names, and no idea which is which, or, worse, overwriting, and 2) it will download the HTML easily. My original method of AO3 downloading was to shove all the links into my download manager, but it ignores html files. And then I used the DownThemAll firefox extension, but that had the same issue with file names. That program automatically retitling the fics and putting in the ID number is worth the headache of getting that program to work.
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Date: 2023-06-02 18:21 (UTC)It does page through all subpages automatically, but you should check the counts to make sure it got everything. I've had to rerun it to get everything, but it doesn't redownload fics already in its folder, so it won't get everything a second time. I clear out the fics anyway and put them into folders by fandom and author, but if you want to re-download a WIP that updated, make sure to delete the old file first.
Its killer features for me are 1) the fics are retitled so it starts with the fic ID, which means I don't end up with "Double Drabble.pdf" and "Double Drabble (1).pdf" from other download methods cropping the file names, and no idea which is which, or, worse, overwriting, and 2) it will download the HTML easily. My original method of AO3 downloading was to shove all the links into my download manager, but it ignores html files. And then I used the DownThemAll firefox extension, but that had the same issue with file names. That program automatically retitling the fics and putting in the ID number is worth the headache of getting that program to work.