Downloading AO3 series?

[Marq FJA]

Is there a way to download an entire series of stories from AO3 through the Calibre plugin? It would really help with long-running series whose stories already number in the several dozens by the time one has come across them if I could just give Calibre the series link instead of manually copy-pasting every single story's link.

[Jim Miller]

FFF has features for downloading all the stories on a web page. I don't
think AO3 paginates series lists; if it does you'll need to get each page.

In CLI, it's -l (or -n) URL for just the list of story URLs, or
--download-list=URL to download them.

The Calibre plugin version of FFF has "Get Story URLs from a Web Page"
and "Make Anthology Epub from Web Page" features. (The Anthology
feature also requires plugin EpubMerge.)


Jim

On 2/14/2020 8:30 PM, Marq FJA wrote:
> Is there a way to download an entire series of stories from AO3 through
> the Calibre plugin? It would really help with long-running series whose

> stories already number in the several *dozens* by the time one has come

[Marq FJA]

Good to know that the features were already there. Now, supposing that I want to save each story in the series as a separate EPUB (typically because they're a full-fledged story in their own right, even if they're interconnected with the others in the same series), can the FFF plugin prefix each story with a number matching their sequential order within the series, or would I have to do that manually after the stories are downloaded?

[Jim Miller]

FFF plugin will, by default, populate Calibre's Series field.

I personally use a Calibre custom column to display series and number
with title and a Calibre metadata plugboard to include series in the
title field when ebooks are sent to my ebook readers.

There's a lot of info about those in the Calibre MR forums:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=236

Jim