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Originally Posted by Ascello
I had same issue recently (as I mentioned in previous post) but it got resolved the next day, everytime. I just assume they temporarily block ppl who download too much too fast. I don't use browser cache. If the issue ever bother me, I will, but so far I prefer to just save a link and try again the next day.
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Interesting. Over the past several days I tried from at least 7 different networks (3 residential, 1 mobile, and several data center) and consistently got v2 captcha, but today I got a successful first chapter download followed by problem reading AIUI delay on all the subsequent chapters. Unfortunately fanficfare --debug doesn't save or show the text that didn't parse (there is just a null regex result exception). I may try modifying the code to log this and possibly use some reasonable default delay.
Anyway, you're right, this does seem to be non-deterministic and it resets (or at least changes) after a while. I wonder whether cloudflare detects heavy downloading towards the entire site, rather than from a specific IP or network, in deciding to put up the v2 challenge.
@JimmXinu, another suggestion: when it's an AO3 download, could fff possibly use the "entire work" link to get the whole story in one operation, instead of retrieving 1 chapter at a time? Thanks.