Downloading stories from Deviant Art

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Michael

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Nov 16, 2020, 8:52:49 PM11/16/20
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So I found out that not only does DA have stories, it has full story pages (multi-chapter).

Example:
https://www.deviantart.com/rabidnachos/gallery/57256017/escape-from-the-hypno-jungle

Is this something special that this user did, or is this a (possibly new) standard format for stories here, and can it be supported?

Jim Miller

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Nov 16, 2020, 9:15:17 PM11/16/20
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Looking at a few, I suspect you're just seeing someone using Galleries
to organize 'Literature' pages into stories. I don't think it's
anything new, but I don't read the site.

Here's an example that's clearly not one story:
https://www.deviantart.com/hypnosishannon/gallery/48807822/fanfics

deviantart.com has been suggested before:
https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFare/issues/374

"I'm not personally interested in adding support for this site, but I
will review and (probably) accept contributed code for it. I'll leave
this issue open in case someone else is interested in implementing it."

Joshua Cotton

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Nov 19, 2021, 2:31:58 AM11/19/21
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Yeah that's just a regular deviantArt gallery with all the chapters in it.
Unfortunately dA doesn't do anything to mandate a specific ordering on the items in a gallery folder. I've seen story galleries with chapters in both forward and reverse order.
FWIW FFF does have deviantArt support  in testing now, but only for single stories at a time, you will have to use the anthology feature for multi-chapter works.
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