[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Tanjamuse

Everytime I try to download a story from this author I get the same error, no matter which story it is.

https://www.fanfiction.net/u/439186/SivanShemesh

Here's an example story:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2693477/1/

and the error:

Elrond & Estel: Surprise
SivanShemesh
maximum recursion depth exceeded
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2693477/1/

That author has a couple different blocks of truly excessive numbers of nested <em> tags in their author bio (see attached).

The author page lookup on ffnet is only used to check the author image and skip using it for story covers. You can suppress that by putting skip_author_cover: false under [fanfiction.net]:

[fanfiction.net]
skip_author_cover: false

Since this is clearly a one-off, I'm going to suggest using that setting while downloading that author's stories and then change it back afterwards. Or create a temp library, whatever you like.

If you find other authors with similar issues, I'll look into a more general fix.