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Originally Posted by Elaine T
Is there a way to tell FFF to download just a couple stories in a collection - I've been sent a list of 18 chapter URLs (on Ao3) to a collection that has over 150.
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So you apparently mean chapters within a story (vs stories within a series) when you say 'stories in a collection'.
And it sounds like you've already found FFF's two mechanisms for limiting downloaded chapters--chapter range and ignore_chapter_url_list--and you don't like either.
In your case, I would suggest downloading the entire story and then using Calibre's Edit book tool to delete the chapters you don't want, or the EpubSplit plugin to make a new book containing only the chapters you do want.
When downloading from AO3 specifically, FFF, by default, downloads the entire story in one page request rather than by individual chapters to save network requests. So there's no performance hit from downloading all of it.
In theory, I could implement an inverse to ignore_chapter_url_list, some kind of 'only include list', but it would be extremely situational. New chapters added to the story would need to be manually added to the list
before they could be downloaded. ignore_chapter_url_list at least includes new chapters by default.