Hello,
I have recently set up a service, where you can download fanfics from fanfiction.net.
It processes even large fanfics with many hundred chapters in a reasonable time.

URL: https://fafido.de
Supported Formats: ePub, mobi, pdf, txt

I hope you can help me improve fafido, to provide you with the best service.

 

Only FF.net huh? What I'd really like to see is a service that allowed me to put the url of any text document in to download.

 

Well "any text document" is a bit vague and would be difficult for a machine.
(at least if it should be nicely formatted)

I can only expand the tool to work with more websites - any suggestions?

 

adultfanfiction.net, Fictionhunt.com, Wikipedia would be nice.

 

Download fanfiction ... from Wikipedia? :?

 

I've never seen a fanfiction on wikipedia. However it would be nice if there was a downloader that could download from wikipedia as well as other fanfiction websites.

 

There's the article on the Holocaust, after all

I think that joke might be a little too dark even for DLP.

 

The one thing that would make me switch to yours over ficsave is ArchiveOfOurOwn support. As there are no real differences between how the two sites, besides yours having PDF support which I see as redundant.

 

I have added support for ArchiveOfOurOwn!
(and some output formats)

fafido.de now supports adult-fanfiction.org, archiveofourown.org, fanfiction.net, fictionpress.com and hpfanficarchive.com!

@Clampert: Welcome to fafido.de

 

I personally don't like that your site can output text documents since this makes it much easier for people to plagiarise work. I know sites like FicSave allow this, but that doesn't mean your site should. I can't think of a single legitimate reason for someone to download a fanfic as a text file. I'm not an author though so my opinion doesn't really hold much weight but I'd be interested in knowing what fanfiction authors think about such sites.

EDIT:

I don't really have the need to download fanfiction all that often and when I do, I just use Calibre to do so, so I probably wont be using your site.

 

If it can be viewed client-side, it can be saved. Bypassing the copy protections on ff.net require nothing more than using the m.fanfiction.net instead of www.fanfiction.net. Legitimate uses include everything from archival for personal use to being offline frequently and wanting to be able to read without internet.

 

That hasn't got anything to do with what I said. It may be easy for people get around the copy protections that are in place, but that doesn't mean it should be made any easier. Other sites may offer the ability to download in a text format but that doesn't mean that every site should.

If someone wants to read fanfiction offline they would download an ePub, not a text file. Reading one hundred thousand words in Calibre would be vastly preferable to reading one hundred thousand words in Notepad.

As for archival why would that require the fanfiction be in text files?

On Topic: I did a couple of tests to see if the site really was faster than other sites (as the name says) and goddamn. FicSave to five minutes to create an ePub of Mother of Learning. FaFiDo took about thirty seconds. Good job.

 

Well that was fast. I assumed that there is some sort of difficulty with AO3 as why else would ficsave not do it. GUess I'm sticking with your site than

 

All fanfiction used to be distributed as text files. It was the default format, and for older fics it still is the only format you'll find them in [usenet, mailing list archives, forum dumps, personal websites]. It's how we preferred to read and publish them before fanfiction.net became monolithic.

If you read the early fics published on fanfiction.net, then you might've noticed that some of them are not nicely wordwrapped, but instead have a fixed line length. This is because the author just copied it from their pre-existing text files without worrying about reformatting it specifically for html/ff.net.

From memory it was usually 72 characters-per-line and in a monospaced font. It looks as ugly as sin on most websites, including ff.net, as an ebook, or on any device that tries to use proportional fonts or word-wrapping. You have to go back to text to get them to a comfortably readable state. I would assume that's where fafido.de comes in.

I doubt the desire of anyone wanting to use an ascii txt conversion to copy a contemporary fanfic. When you convert to text you lose almost all formatting, including paragraph alignment, line breaks, italics, bolding, opening-and-closing quotation marks, etc. It'd be a pretty shoddy effort if someone were to use a text file to pirate fics from the last 15 years.

 

So I've been trying out your site and it worked fine for me, just as good as ficsave.

Another feature I would like to see is tags in the ebooks. Nothing fancy maybe just the fandoms it's from, the genre, the rating and that it's fanfiction. I've been going through all the ones I've downloaded and it's taking forever to tag them in calibre.

 

I successfully implemented the tag function for FF.net, fictionpress.com, adult-fanfiction.org and hpfanficarchive.com.