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Old 02-22-2026, 05:39 PM   #11736
estherflails
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Recently I've been having some trouble with Ao3 HTTP Errors, mostly "HTTP Error in FFF '403 Client Error: Forbidden for url". Sometimes I even get an error when using the "Get Story Urls from Web Page" function (I feel like it was a different error I saw before but this is the one I managed to get just now):

Code:
calibre, version 8.4.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>HTTPErrorFFF</b>:HTTP Error in FFF '525 Server Error: &lt;none&gt; for url: https://archiveofourown.org/users/login'(525)

calibre 8.4  embedded-python: True
Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '10', '10.0.19045')
Python 3.11.12
Windows: ('10', '10.0.19045', 'SP0', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: None
EXE path: C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre.exe
Successfully initialized third party plugins: DeDRM (7, 2, 1) && Action Chains (1, 20, 4) && Audit Log (1, 0, 19) && Count Pages (1, 13, 6) && EpubMerge (2, 18, 0) && Extract People Other Metadata (1, 0, 0) && FanFicFare (4, 52, 0) && Favourites Menu (1, 3, 1) && Find Duplicates (1, 10, 9) && Goodreads (1, 8, 1) && Goodreads Sync (1, 16, 5) && Job Spy (1, 0, 239) && Save Composite Custom Columns (1, 1, 1) && View Manager (1, 10, 3)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\calibre\plugins\FanFicFare.zip\fanficfare\fetchers\fetcher_requests.py", line 128, in request
  File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\calibre\plugins\FFNfare.zip\requests\models.py", line 943, in raise_for_status
requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 525 Server Error: <none> for url: https://archiveofourown.org/users/login

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "calibre_plugins.fanficfare_plugin.fff_plugin", line 712, in get_urls_from_page_menu
  File "calibre_plugins.fanficfare_plugin.fff_plugin", line 735, in get_urls_from_page
  File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\calibre\plugins\FanFicFare.zip\fanficfare\geturls.py", line 44, in get_urls_from_page
  File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\calibre\plugins\FanFicFare.zip\fanficfare\adapters\base_adapter.py", line 507, in get_urls_from_page
  File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\calibre\plugins\FanFicFare.zip\fanficfare\adapters\base_otw_adapter.py", line 661, in before_get_urls_from_page
  File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\calibre\plugins\FanFicFare.zip\fanficfare\adapters\base_otw_adapter.py", line 141, in performLogin
  File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\calibre\plugins\FanFicFare.zip\fanficfare\requestable.py", line 105, in post_request
  File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\calibre\plugins\FanFicFare.zip\fanficfare\fetchers\base_fetcher.py", line 127, in post_request
  File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\calibre\plugins\FanFicFare.zip\fanficfare\fetchers\cache_basic.py", line 123, in fetcher_do_request
  File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\calibre\plugins\FanFicFare.zip\fanficfare\fetchers\decorators.py", line 107, in fetcher_do_request
  File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\calibre\plugins\FanFicFare.zip\fanficfare\fetchers\base_fetcher.py", line 109, in do_request
  File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\calibre\plugins\FanFicFare.zip\fanficfare\fetchers\fetcher_requests.py", line 149, in request
fanficfare.exceptions.HTTPErrorFFF: HTTP Error in FFF '525 Server Error: <none> for url: https://archiveofourown.org/users/login'(525)
The latter worked better with "use_archiveofourown_gay:true" but the other errors persisted, sometimes even worsened.

I just tried switching to using browser data which works fine, fortunately. I originally wrote this comment due to an issue I had with it but I figured it out. I'll leave it up in case you wanted to look at the other error.

Thank you for the wonderful extension!

Last edited by estherflails; 02-22-2026 at 06:02 PM. Reason: More accurate details
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