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Originally Posted by pilotbob
You should ask them to create an RSS feed or other type of REST API.
BOb
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They already have an RSS feed which contains links to individual stories. Don't see how that has any bearing on fetching stories, unless they start generating RSS feeds for each story. Not practical, imho. A REST API would be useful, though, but something tells me they might not go for it.
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Originally Posted by FanFiction.Net Terms of Service
E. You agree not to use or launch any automated system, including without limitation, "robots," "spiders," or "offline readers," that accesses the Website in a manner that sends more request messages to the FanFiction.Net servers in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a conventional on-line web browser. Notwithstanding the foregoing, FanFiction.Net grants the operators of public search engines permission to use spiders to copy materials from the site for the sole purpose of and solely to the extent necessary for creating publicly available searchable indices of the materials, but not caches or archives of such materials. FanFiction.Net reserves the right to revoke these exceptions either generally or in specific cases.
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The "given period of time" definition is kinda loose. I only download a few fanfics in a 24-hour period. Actually, I download maybe 2~4 in an hour and I can easily reproduce that (and more) on Firefox. Granted, the Calibre recipe is somewhat pushing it, but I only have it scheduled to run once a day to retrieve fanfics updated within a 24-hour period. Basically, the same fanfics I would have read in a 24-hour period, were I to actually browse their website via web browser.
A link for a "printable" version would sure be useful, though, and it seems like something they would consider.