Possible fix for errors by using archiveofourown.gay mirror?

[hepalienn]

Thanks for this great utility! FanFicFare had been having the same issues with Ao3 that ao3downloader has due to Ao3 blocking auto-downloaders, but per the MR thread they've discovered that official Ao3 mirror archiveofourown.gay works. I wondered if it was a possible fix for ao3downloader to use use ao3.gay?

[nianeyna]

Interesting! I'll try to test that out when I get a chance. In the meantime you might be able to make it do that on your own just by editing the file strings.py in your script folder to replace any instances of archiveofourown.org with archiveofourown.gay. If you try that I'd be interested to hear how it goes!

[bealullaby]

Hello! A bit late, but an issue arises when using AO3.gay as a source via strings.py, especially when the app checks for unfinished works. The links they search for are (HTTP) AO3.org links.

It's because you have to edit the strings.py file yourself and change all the links you find in the file that say .org to .gay. Otherwise, when you use it to find unfinished works it will keep using .org links and it won't work.

The only .org link left is the string that appears when you select the ignore list option aka. IGNORELIST_INFO_INITIALIZED in my scripts.py, though.

Have you changed all 3 links on the #region ao3 scrapping section to archiveofourown.gay? I think those are the only ones that need to be changed, at least that's what I have on mine. And whenever I search for unfinished works on my folder, it still uses .gay domain to update incomplete fics that have been updated recently.

[RowanSkie]

Hello! A bit late, but an issue arises when using AO3.gay as a source via strings.py, especially when the app checks for unfinished works. The links they search for are (HTTP) AO3.org links.

It's because you have to edit the strings.py file yourself and change all the links you find in the file that say .org to .gay. Otherwise, when you use it to find unfinished works it will keep using .org links and it won't work.

The only .org link left is the string that appears when you select the ignore list option aka. IGNORELIST_INFO_INITIALIZED in my scripts.py, though.

Have you changed all 3 links on the #region ao3 scrapping section to archiveofourown.gay? I think those are the only ones that need to be changed, at least that's what I have on mine. And whenever I search for unfinished works on my folder, it still uses .gay domain to update incomplete fics that have been updated recently.

Yeah, I did. I still have no idea why it goes for .org links.

[nianeyna]

It's possible that downloaded files that were originally scraped using .gay will work whereas those scraped using .org will not. I'd have to investigate further to be sure of that theory though.

[bealullaby]

It's possible that downloaded files that were originally scraped using .gay will work whereas those scraped using .org will not. I'd have to investigate further to be sure of that theory though.

Oh yeah that might be it because the works i check i had re-scraped using .gay.

[RowanSkie]

It's possible that downloaded files that were originally scraped using .gay will work whereas those scraped using .org will not. I'd have to investigate further to be sure of that theory though.

That... doesn't work out. I downloaded a fic from AO3.gay and they gave an HTTP AO3.org link for their origin link.

[bealullaby]

Thanks for this great utility! FanFicFare had been having the same issues with Ao3 that ao3downloader has due to Ao3 blocking auto-downloaders, but per the MR thread they've discovered that official Ao3 mirror archiveofourown.gay works. I wondered if it was a possible fix for ao3downloader to use use ao3.gay?

Thanks for this! I've been having issues downloading as well, followed your suggestion with the site and edited the strings.py file...now it downloads without any issues!

[nianeyna]

FYI to anyone tracking this discussion - the new install instructions have made this workaround much more problematic as I no longer recommend or support running ao3downloader from source. This means that (unless you know what you're doing - it's not by any means impossible, I'm just not going to provide instructions for it) you can't edit source files such as strings.py before running the script. To that end, I'm going to convert this discussion to an issue to officially support setting alternate base urls using the ini file. Please track that issue (#241) if you would like to be notified when the feature is live.

That said! according to my Sources (tm) the normal archiveofourown.org url should currently be working a bit better than previous, so hopefully this workaround won't be needed at least for the moment.