Re: command line fan fiction program?

...somehow I am guessing you did not notice that the harry Potter section, 
has  hundreds of thousands of stories  smiles.
The p option would be a fine idea, if it printed the entire 
formatted work like at archive of our own.  now it 
only  does chapter by chapter.
I doubt uget would produce more than chapter by chapter either since the 
fanfiction  links include a  /option for the chapter number.
May be more productive asking Ken to consider installing one of the 
fanfiction   downloader programs here.
Thanks for the ideas though,
Kare


On Thu, 23 Mar 2017, Tim Chase wrote:

> On March 22, 2017, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>> The goal is to read the works off line, not on the site. i. e.
>> download them.
>> Compare with archive of our own.
>> www.archiveofourown.org
>> there one has the option to download, even in lynx for example via
>> the full story choice, get the story int ext.
>
> A couple options:
>
> 1) for individual stores, you should be able to use the "p"rint
> option in lynx to print the formatted story to a local text file that
> you can then read at your later convenience.
>
> 2) you can use wget to mirror a site, slurping down everything. Or a
> subset since fanfiction.net seems to have a nice URL structure, so
> you can limit your mirroring to just, say
>
> https://www.fanfiction.net/tv/M-A-S-H/
>
> without pulling in every other TV show as well as movies, games,
> books, plays, etc.  The command might look something like
>
> wget --mirror--adjust-extension --no-parent --convert-links https://www.fanfiction.net/tv/M-A-S-H/
>
> You might also use a couple options to be nice to the host and not
> slam them with a bajillion requests, so you might add
>
>  --limit-rate=25k
>  --random-wait
>
> to wait a random interval between the downloads, and limit the
> slurping to a slower rate.
>
> Warning, this will slurp in *everything* under that URL (presuming
> you use the "--no-parent"; if you don't it will mirror the entire
> stinkin' site) possibly including comment pages.  So I'd experiment
> with one of the smaller topics to get it working and see roughly how
> much a small mirror takes.  If you have enough space and time, then
> point it to a full archive.
>
> Once you have them downloaded locally, you can use lynx to browse them
> offline (and, to a degree, even navigate among them as I believe it
> updates links or at least relative linking works)
>
> -tim
>
>
>
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