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Originally Posted by icecold
How long should gathering metadata take for a single ao3 fic nowadays? FFF gets stuck on that step with ao3 fics now.
Edit: Never mind, I found that bit of the debug log for the one time FFF didn't get stuck and downloaded an ao3 fic properly and the answer was within an hour. Probably much quicker but I can't parse most of the debug log.
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AO3 metadata collection is only a couple page requests. If it's taking that long, it's because of blocking, or the ongoing AO3 server issues.
Many of us have switched either using FFF's Browser Cache mode or the new use_archive_transformativeworks_org setting. These have been discussed before, search the thread for more.
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Originally Posted by ninjadudedxp
I found some old copies of RR books, i took the ones with older chapters and added the new Chapters also changing the HTML names to line up with the chapter order, should those books be ok when a new chapter gets added? or will it update based on what was there last and overwrite the next file that was suppose to be in the sequence rather than checking what chapters are available .
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If you got everything exactly correct, including FFF's embedded chapter URL, maybe? If any chapters have the embedded <meta> tag for chapter URL, FFF will expect *all* chapter files to have it and discard any that don't.
If you are just trying to save download time, you could go ahead and try it and the worst that happens is chapters that aren't correct get downloaded again.
OTOH, if you are trying to save 'stubbed'/removed chapters or something like that, I would suggest setting your manually edited version aside as separate book (clear the identifiers:url field) and use FFF to download a current copy in a different book.