annoying Calibre plug-in problems

[ratcreature]

Normally I download fanfic from AO3 into Calibre with that FanFicFare plugin, because that is very convenient and imports all the meta data.

However as of the most recent update (to 2.17.1) it won't download locked content anymore. I get an error that it can't log in, even though my password hasn't changed and I can log in via browser. It also still downloads non-locked fanfic form AO3 without problem. Does anyone else have this problem?

ETA: Googling found me some recent message board posts by the FanFicFare creator, explaining that AO3 has changed its login process to disallow automated tools to download locked stories. That is inconvenient.

Comments

[tassosss]

Oh man that sucks. I manually download to iBooks so I haven't run into issues, other than the occasional miscode that prevents the download.

[ratcreature]

Yeah. Downloading via the plugin is much more convenient. I mean, I don't utilize the customization much, that allows you to tweak the epub to your preferences, but I like the default better than AO3's self-created files. Especially that it downloads embedded pictures. So that is great for Big Bangs and such.

Also it is really good at updating WIP epubs, and you can merge series into a big epub at download. And of course that I get all the tags as metadata in Calibre automatically.

And when I have read a bunch of stories at AO3 without downloading them but just wanted copies saved, with the login I could send it to my bookmarks or even my reading history and Calibre went through the twenty or so on each URL and checked whether I had saved all I read. If it doesn't get the locked I have to do all that manually.