Up until recently, I've been using Flagfic for my downloading.

And then ff.net changed something, and told the bloke running Flagfic to stop it. So I switched to FanFictionDownloader.

And that now seems to have stopped working. Yesterday it downloaded an empty page per chapter, and today it seems to be doing a mix of that and downloading a single empty page.

Anyone got any work-arounds? Or any downloaders that still work?

 

What seriously? That's fucking bad. You could probably use calibre and it's fanfic downloader plugin. I don't know if it still work though. You could also try graffer.

 

I just tested the FanFictionDownloader software and it's still working for me. I downloaded three seperate stories and converted them to epub. All the chapters were there.

Edit: I just checked the FanFictionDownloader website forum. They had problems over the past week similar to what you're describing, but they fixed it with a new version. Do you have 0.8.3? What are you converting them to?

 

Yeah, I was running .8.1, but .8.3 works fine now.

Cheers.

 

The ffNazis have updated their fucking anti- crawler script again, 8.3 of ffdownloader doesn't work any longer. Is there an update option anywhere in the app? Or do I have to manually deinstall and then reinstall the newest version?

 

As far as I can tell, manually do it, unless you have the code. Athough I'm sure you could probably find it somewhere on the fd.net forums.

 

I've switched to Calibre's FanfictionDownloader plugin, which aside from being a pain to use, does work well enough. My biggest regret with it is that it doesn't make as nice covers as Flagfic did.

 

It's an arms race between FFN and the downloader programmers, just deep pantry your fanfiction until the drama dies down to a dull roar and all this blows over.

 

The final stage is downloader working as extension of browser - as this cannot be blocked in any reasonable way.