[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Tanjamuse

Is there a way to pick up the original authors on stories like these from AO3?

http://archiveofourown.org/works/4211906

Hmmm. I did not know that was a thing.

For those following along at home, that story shows the story by-line as "Arien [archived by HASA_Archivist]". FFF picks up the author name as HASA_Archivist only because it looks for author link(s) to find author(s).

I don't want to grab the entire by-line and use it as author name because I know AO3 stories can have multiple authors. But I don't have any in my library, so an example of that would be appreciated if someone has one. (calibre search: authors:#>1 and publisher:archiveofourown)

Also, if "archived by" this is a thing, what else might by-line contain?

My current inclination is to add a new site specific metadata 'byline' that would contain the entire by-line string, "Arien [archived by HASA_Archivist]" in this case.

Opinions?