[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[Elaine T]

Originally Posted by Lys

I tried different combinations with use_archiveofourown_gay:true or with the browser cache feature, but the result was always the same (with a slight different long message error, but always a 403)

That's the reason I asked if someone managed to download locked AO3 fics through FFF in the last few days, and if yes, if they could share their own setting to see if I could replicate that and solve the issue

Daughter has reported this problem, too. What's weird is we're running the same Win 11, same Calibre version, same FFF, and everything is working for me. And going through the same network. But she can't download stories locked to only logged in users, or update anthologies whether or not they require log in. She runs Steam as well as Windows - could that be messing with things somehow? She sent me debug logs which I will try to attach. (last time I thought I attached something here, it didn't actually happen.)

[JimmXinu]

Both of those end in "403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://archiveofourown.gay/users/login"

That's not a system or network error, that's the site choosing to forbid access. We don't know why certain users and/or IPs/networks ended up blocked, but doing lots of downloads is a factor. It's usually temporary, clearing after 'some time', which could be hours or days.

For the series update, it may help to comment out username--the AO3 adapter automatically attempts to login for series if username is saved.

Other than that, I don't know of anything more that you or FFF can do about that.

As always with AO3, you can still download epubs from the site.

[Elaine T]

Thanks. I"ll try taking username out then.

[Ghostcat]

I had this when using use_archiveofourown_gay:true a few days again. Commenting out login details in personal.ini means that FFF asks you to login to download AO3 locked files. It quite happily accepts this and gets on with downloading the book.

[Lys]

Originally Posted by Elaine T

Daughter has reported this problem, too. What's weird is we're running the same Win 11, same Calibre version, same FFF, and everything is working for me. And going through the same network. But she can't download stories locked to only logged in users, or update anthologies whether or not they require log in. She runs Steam as well as Windows - could that be messing with things somehow? She sent me debug logs which I will try to attach. (last time I thought I attached something here, it didn't actually happen.)

I solved the problem by... creating a new account
I have no idea how/why Cloudflare decided to block my previous one. I hadn't used FFF for over 2 weeks when I tried to download some fics, and every single one came back with that 403 error. Taking out my setting configuration all info related to my login, allowed me to download not locked fics, but the locked ones were still giving me errors.
My account could access AO3 normally, it wasn't banned from the site nor anything else, but for some reason, Cloudflare blocked it when using FFF