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This isn’t directly an FFF question, but it’s something I imagine people here might have also considered/ I’ve been cleaning up my fic library, and part of that was searching for updated (AO3) versions of pics that were hosted on individual sites/dead sites/livejournal. Some authors mystified me by having seemingly random uploads (aka some on one site, some on another, nor based on fandom), but that’s beside the point. What I had to do involved copying/pasting to search Ao3 for each fic individually. It led me to find cleaned-up versions of pics I copy-pasted into docs fifteen years ago, and follow creators I’d lost track of. Doing it for every FFN fic I have that might have been moved would be insane.
Ideally, it’d be possible to be told if an author I follow elsewhere moves their to a new site, but that’s a pipe dream. What I wondered was: Is there a program/tool that could take a list/string of data (author names) into a search page (AO3) and spit out results I could then vet? Better would be both title and author name—just title would be too likely to give false positives.
basically, as anyone found a way to use data scrapping to follow their favorite fics?
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