MobileRead Forums - View Single Post

MikeVx · 05-26-2015, 12:09 AM

Time to add another aggravation to your working pile.

I have been having a problem with FFN for several months, this issue spans the name change on what is now FanFicFare.

I am attempting to download things from FFN, I will paste in an example, but FFN is essentially broken for me as all download attempts return some variant of the error below.

An example link:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1036468...Golden-Nuggets

Result, an error log entry of:

Status
Title
Author
Comment
URL
Error
Harry's Golden Nuggets
Snaggledog
'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 24886: invalid continuation byte
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10364683/1/

(Apologies for the ugly copy/paste.)

Removing the s from the url does not change the result. I had considered that encryption might be an issue, but it seems not.

This is specific to FFN, AO3 works well. The real aggravation is that FFN used to work just fine, but then something broke. I expect the fault to be at FFNs end, given that the reason I upgraded to FFF is that the old plug-in stopped working. I finally got annoyed enough to track down this forum to ask if this is fixable or not.

Is this enough information to help you?

I will dig up more if you tell me what you need.

Thanks.

05-26-2015, 12:09 AM	#210
MikeVx Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2015 Device: Ectaco JetBook Lite	Problem with Fanfiction.net Time to add another aggravation to your working pile. I have been having a problem with FFN for several months, this issue spans the name change on what is now FanFicFare. I am attempting to download things from FFN, I will paste in an example, but FFN is essentially broken for me as all download attempts return some variant of the error below. An example link: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1036468...Golden-Nuggets Result, an error log entry of: Status Title Author Comment URL Error Harry's Golden Nuggets Snaggledog 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 24886: invalid continuation byte https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10364683/1/ (Apologies for the ugly copy/paste.) Removing the s from the url does not change the result. I had considered that encryption might be an issue, but it seems not. This is specific to FFN, AO3 works well. The real aggravation is that FFN used to work just fine, but then something broke. I expect the fault to be at FFNs end, given that the reason I upgraded to FFF is that the old plug-in stopped working. I finally got annoyed enough to track down this forum to ask if this is fixable or not. Is this enough information to help you? I will dig up more if you tell me what you need. Thanks.