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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
FictionPress was working on an app update a few hours ago, so I'd try again a little later and see if it clears up.
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Got v2 challenge just a minute ago, will try again later, but I think we should just assume that ffnet wants to lock people into their software, so the download situation will get worse rather than better. I do see that fanficfare was able to retrieve the metadata page of the story I tried to download, but got errors for the individual chapter pages. I also see that the reddit fanfic bot is still able to post (and therefore presumably retrieve) metadata from ffnet. So I'm wondering if a medium term strategy might be to correlate ffnet metadata with ao3 and maybe some other sites like ff2ebook, and redirect ffnet retrievals to those other sites. There are also a few crawls (not up to date) of ffnet on archive.org and maybe other places, so possibly fanficfare could retrieve from those.
Is this the right place for this discussion? I'd rather not sign up for github.
It's also more a question of data than code.