Also note this:
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However, we don’t have a policy against responsible data collection — such as those done by academic researchers, fans backing up works to Wayback Machine or Google’s search indexing. Putting systems in place that attempt to block all scraping would be difficult or impossible without also blocking legitimate uses of the site.
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AO3 allows downloads of fics for backup/viewing on different places. Using FanFicFare to do pretty much the same thing likely falls under the same scope.