FanFictionDownloader, for those who don't know, is a standalone tool for downloading fanfics that does better with the ffnet blocking issue due to incorporating a QtWebEngine browser engine that it uses for doing downloads.
Which, on Windows10 at least, has a browser cache that FFF can read. For me it's at:
C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\fanficdownloader\cache \QtWebEngine\Default\Cache
...and setting FFF's
browser_cache_path to use it works fine.
Basically, you're replacing WebToEpub and your browser with FFDL.
- You still need to have downloaded the stories/chapters desired with FFDL before FFF can find them in cache.
- You can limit FFDL's download to certain chapters, but you have to do it as a two step process ('Check' to get metadata, then download.)
I'm going to be doing some testing to see if this also works on Mac and Linux.
EDIT1: Worked on Mac, cache path:
/Users/USER/Library/Caches/fanficdownloader/QtWebEngine/Default/Cache
Not sure why I never thought of this before...
FYI, FanFicFare used to also be named FanFictionDownLoader or fanficdownloader before being renamed. FanFictionDownloader had that name first. There's never been any relation but similarity of purpose between the two.