[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[vscogirl]

Originally Posted by booster-t

Ok ... here's a new one for me. Version 4.5.8 of the plugin ... worked yesterday ...

Stephen

I am getting the same error as well, I presume its something going on the server side and hopefully a temporary thing?

[JimmXinu]

Weird server error (/ possibly blocking?) thing.

Flaresolverr proxy and browser cache should still work, but the mirror sites are reported to not work now.

See:
https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFa...ent-4693800855
https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFa...ive-of-our-own

[DNSB]

That would indicate that you requested an Internet connected teapot to brew coffee.

See Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (RFC2324) for more information and 418 I'm a teapot.

You can also take a look at google.com/teapot.

[Elaine T]

Originally Posted by booster-t

Ok ... here's a new one for me. Version 4.5.8 of the plugin ... worked yesterday ...

Stephen

FWIW I just cleared my Ao3 specific data, logged out, and logged back in and now I have successfully used FFF to download new and update stories at last (for today). Ao3 can be so flaky it might be a coincidence, but easy enough to try.

[disastrous]

Originally Posted by booster-t

Ok ... here's a new one for me. Version 4.5.8 of the plugin ... worked yesterday ...

Stephen

I had the same issue earlier today, but I tried again 10 minutes ago without changing anything and it worked just fine. Might be worth trying again!

[xAcex]

Hi! I've been consistently getting a 403 URL forbidden error when trying to update any ao3 fics, I did try updating to the latest test version but the issue still occurs so I think it was unrelated. The problem occurs no matter what update mode I select

I do have the personal ini set to my browser_cache_path, and the user name and password are set up too. Other settings are as follows:

[archiveofourown.org]
is_adult:true
open_pages_in_browser:true
use_view_full_work:true
use_browser_cache:true
use_archiveofourown_gay:true

I'm not sure what else to try if anyone has recommendations for what to look at/change, thank you!

[JimmXinu]

AO3 is being weird again. Past experience suggests it will calm down again after a while.

As I said just a bit ago:

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Weird server error (/ possibly blocking?) thing.

Flaresolverr proxy and browser cache should still work, but the mirror sites are reported to not work now.

See:
https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFa...ent-4693800855
https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFa...ive-of-our-own

From the various reports, IMO, we're seeing random server issues. So I doubt very much any one "solution" is going to work for everyone. Because random.

[applegaa]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

New Test Version Posted

2026-06-11
- adapter_literotica: More patch from dbhmw for #1360

I just opened Issue #1372 regarding incorrect series URLs. It doesn't break every series, but apparently some cannot be accessed by putting the series id in the URL.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2026-06-14
- base_xenforo2forum_adapter: Change \n\n in forum tags to ' ' like 'Worm\n\n(Wildbow (Author))'
- base_otw_adapter: Better reporting of get token failure #1370
- fetcher_flaresolverr_proxy: Strip wrapper HTML from JSON responses. See #1370
- adapter_literotica: Fix for single story description from dbhmw #1360

[JohnnyBook]

literotica.com seems to have stopped working.

Every time I try to download a story I get a message saying:
"None of the URLs/stories given can be/need to be downloaded.

And the log shows:

Status Title Author Comment
Error Unknown Unknown list index out of range

[applegaa]

Originally Posted by JohnnyBook

literotica.com seems to have stopped working.

Every time I try to download a story I get a message saying:
"None of the URLs/stories given can be/need to be downloaded.

And the log shows:

Status Title Author Comment
Error Unknown Unknown list index out of range

I haven't updated to the latest test version, so I'm still running 4.58.8, but the site seems to be working for me. I haven't found any that have new chapters, but I'm getting the normal "already contains x chapters" message for each one.

If you have a specific URL, you can PM me with it and I'll test it with mine.

[Chirishman]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

New Test Version Posted

2026-06-14
- base_xenforo2forum_adapter: Change \n\n in forum tags to ' ' like 'Worm\n\n(Wildbow (Author))'
- base_otw_adapter: Better reporting of get token failure #1370
- fetcher_flaresolverr_proxy: Strip wrapper HTML from JSON responses. See #1370
- adapter_literotica: Fix for single story description from dbhmw #1360

Flaresolverr fix is working for individual stories but while AO3 Series Anthologies downloaded with the new test version through Flaresolverr are downloaded successfully all resulting ebooks have the title "Archive of Our Own Anthology" and series is recorded as "Archive Of Our Own Anthology [0]"

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2026-06-15
- base_otw_adapter: Fix Series name masked using flaresolverr #1370

The HTML returned via flaresolverr contains the 'terms & conditions' and 'processing where' checkboxes that AO3 requires for new users.

Not sure why only with flaresolverr, but a more directed selector fixes it.

[huff_qq27]

Originally Posted by JohnnyBook

literotica.com seems to have stopped working.

Every time I try to download a story I get a message saying:
"None of the URLs/stories given can be/need to be downloaded.

And the log shows:

Status Title Author Comment
Error Unknown Unknown list index out of range

I'm having the exact same issue. I tried downloading four stories earlier today, and the first one went fine, but the next three all failed with this same error message. I tried again a few times throughout the day and got the same issue every time.


The first one still works though, and the only difference between that one and the other three ones (e.g. https://www.literotica.com/series/se/465393977 or https://www.literotica.com/s/reina-in-a-strange-land) is that it only has one chapter, whereas the other three all have more than one.


Both the "series url" (literotica.com/series/se/xxxx) and "first chapter url" (literotica.com/s/blablabla) give the same error.


I've been using fanficfare through calibre for a while now on various sites, including literotica, and never had issues before. I noticed it had an update pending so I updated it and restarted calibre, but that didn't fix it.


I tried other random fics, and confirmed that all the ones I tried with one chapter work, and the ones with two or more don't.

[applegaa]

Originally Posted by huff_qq27

I'm having the exact same issue. I tried downloading four stories earlier today, and the first one went fine, but the next three all failed with this same error message. I tried again a few times throughout the day and got the same issue every time.


The first one still works though, and the only difference between that one and the other three ones (e.g. /se/465393977 or /s/reina-in-a-strange-land) is that it only has one chapter, whereas the other three all have more than one.


Both the "series url" and "first chapter url" give the same error.


I've been using fanficfare through calibre for a while now on various sites, including literotica, and never had issues before. I noticed it had an update pending so I updated it and restarted calibre, but that didn't fix it.


I tried other random fics, and confirmed that all the ones I tried with one chapter work, and the ones with two or more don't.

I just tried that link with version 4.58.8 and it downloaded just fine. Which version are you running?