chottopoco

Well folks I've been sitting on this little script for ages and finally decided to just go ahead and publish it. What does it do?

you can enter any ao3 link - for example, to your bookmarks or an author's works page - and automatically download all the works and series that are linked from that page in the format of your choice. if there are multiple pages, the script will page through results for you until there are no more fics to download

you can check your fanfic-savin' folder for unfinished fics and automatically update them if there are new chapters. you can also check for new fics in series!

if you're a dinosaur who uses Pinboard, you can back up all the Pinboard bookmarks you have that link to ao3

don't worry about crashing ao3 with this! this baby takes forever to run, guaranteed. anyway ao3 won't let me make more than one request per second even if I wanted to so it's quite safe

I've been working on this for about two years and it's finally in a state where it does everything I want and isn't breaking every two seconds, so I thought it was time to share! I hope y'all get some use out of it.

It is, as it says above, a way to automate clicking on all your bookmarks and downloading those works. Or clicking on everything in the fandom and downloading it. etc.

The key features are:

done by a fan

has obvious utility to other fans

not for profit

not spying on you and storing your data for unclear purposes

Because Dropbox is dumb and being very glitchy lately, the sync function is no longer reliable. I spent a day trying to figure out why it wasn't syncing only to find out this is now an issue among Android and iOS users alike. Given the piddly space Dropbox gives as well as these ongoing issues, I decided to jump ship. If have Scrivener and are thinking of doing the same, here's a lil guide for you.

I opted to go with Mega. Their free account comes with 20 GB. Their website says 20, but if you download the mobile and desktop app, you get a 5 GB bonus for each. I suspect it might not be a permanent bonus, likely for a year, but I'll check again in the summer of 2025. They are also more privacy-oriented and have no AI scraping (like Google).

This walkthrough is for Android. I'd imagine the steps are similar for iOS, but I can't say for sure.

1. Make a Mega account, go through all that registration stuff.

2. Download the mobile app. Log in.

3. Download the desktop app. Log in

4. Open File Explorer and make a folder wherever you'd like your files to be synced from.

5. Once the desktop app is installed, you need to look for the icon to open the program. I found it in my task bar. The little red M icon is what you need to open.

6. Go to the three dots and double click to open up options.

7. Go to settings.

8. Go to the Sync option in the Settings menu. Select Add.

9. Another dialogue box will pop up. One the 'Local Folder' line, click 'Add'.

10. Select the folder you made specifically for sync. For this walkthrough, I'm using the 'Testing' folder.

11. Once you've selected your folder, you'll be back at the previous dialogue box. Now click on 'Select' on the MEGA folder line.

12. I forgot to take a screenshot, but you'll have a new dialogue box pop up with an empty list. Select the grey box saying 'New Folder'. You can name it whatever you want but I gave it the name 'Test'. Once done, your screen should look similar to the one below. Then click 'OK'.

13. When done, your dialogue box should look like below. This is the crucial step as this is how the Mega program will help you sync with Scrivener. Make sure these folders are exactly where you want them to be and are named as you want. Once you're certain, click 'Add'

14. When done, you'll have a list that looks similar to this. The first step is done.

16. Once your subfolder is made, open up Scrivener and go to the 'Sync' option in the 'File' menu. Select 'with External Folder'.

17. In the new dialogue box, click on 'Choose' in the top option of 'Shared Folder'

18. Select the subfolder you created in your main synced folder. If you only have the one project you wish to sync, you can simply select the main folder, as shown here in the walkthrough.

19. In the 'Sync' dialogue box, go down to the 'Format' section and make sure the 'Forrmat for External Draft Files' is set to plain text and the ext (extension name) is txt. This will enable you to edit the files in the Mega app. Click 'Sync'.

!! - RTF will not work, DO NOT CHOOSE THIS OPTION

20. What Scrivener will do now is create a 'Draft' folder, with all the files for the project. If you only have the one project, you're fine. If you have multiple projects to sync, you MUST have subfolders (one for each project to sync).

21. You can confirm the sync was successful by going back to the 'Settings' in Mega. Before, there were no files in the Testing folder. Now, the project files have been uploaded.

22. If you go to the 'Draft' folder, your files should look something like this. You're now set to write on the go with your phone.

24. Click until you get to files themselves. Select the one you want to edit.

25. Click on the green 'Edit' icon in the bottom right hand corner of the screen.

26. I usually write in my phone's Notes app and then copy-paste it, so I don't have to worry about wifi and potentially losing my work. If you have steady wifi/data, then feel free to just write in the app; there is no auto-save function though. Saving only happens when you click the green check mark at the top.

And that little green down arrow will take you to the following page

So if you're on the first page and you copy-paste and think, "uh, wtf it didn't paste, where is it?", click through to the end of the pages and make sure it didn't.

To resolve this, open up the desktop app and sync. A pop-up should appear outlining the issue preventing the sync (in my case, multiple copies of different files). Do what you need to in order to resolve the syncing issue and voila, you're all good once done.

Because Dropbox is dumb and being very glitchy lately, the sync function is no longer reliable. I spent a day trying to figure out why it wasn't syncing only to find out this is now an issue among Android and iOS users alike. Given the piddly space Dropbox gives as well as these ongoing issues, I decided to jump ship. If have Scrivener and are thinking of doing the same, here's a lil guide for you.

I opted to go with Mega. Their free account comes with 20 GB. Their website says 20, but if you download the mobile and desktop app, you get a 5 GB bonus for each. I suspect it might not be a permanent bonus, likely for a year, but I'll check again in the summer of 2025. They are also more privacy-oriented and have no AI scraping (like Google).

This walkthrough is for Android. I'd imagine the steps are similar for iOS, but I can't say for sure.

1. Make a Mega account, go through all that registration stuff.

2. Download the mobile app. Log in.

3. Download the desktop app. Log in

4. Open File Explorer and make a folder wherever you'd like your files to be synced from.

5. Once the desktop app is installed, you need to look for the icon to open the program. I found it in my task bar. The little red M icon is what you need to open.

6. Go to the three dots and double click to open up options.

7. Go to settings.

8. Go to the Sync option in the Settings menu. Select Add.

9. Another dialogue box will pop up. One the 'Local Folder' line, click 'Add'.

10. Select the folder you made specifically for sync. For this walkthrough, I'm using the 'Testing' folder.

11. Once you've selected your folder, you'll be back at the previous dialogue box. Now click on 'Select' on the MEGA folder line.

12. I forgot to take a screenshot, but you'll have a new dialogue box pop up with an empty list. Select the grey box saying 'New Folder'. You can name it whatever you want but I gave it the name 'Test'. Once done, your screen should look similar to the one below. Then click 'OK'.

13. When done, your dialogue box should look like below. This is the crucial step as this is how the Mega program will help you sync with Scrivener. Make sure these folders are exactly where you want them to be and are named as you want. Once you're certain, click 'Add'

14. When done, you'll have a list that looks similar to this. The first step is done.

16. Once your subfolder is made, open up Scrivener and go to the 'Sync' option in the 'File' menu. Select 'with External Folder'.

17. In the new dialogue box, click on 'Choose' in the top option of 'Shared Folder'

18. Select the subfolder you created in your main synced folder. If you only have the one project you wish to sync, you can simply select the main folder, as shown here in the walkthrough.

19. In the 'Sync' dialogue box, go down to the 'Format' section and make sure the 'Forrmat for External Draft Files' is set to plain text and the ext (extension name) is txt. This will enable you to edit the files in the Mega app. Click 'Sync'.

!! - RTF will not work, DO NOT CHOOSE THIS OPTION

20. What Scrivener will do now is create a 'Draft' folder, with all the files for the project. If you only have the one project, you're fine. If you have multiple projects to sync, you MUST have subfolders (one for each project to sync).

21. You can confirm the sync was successful by going back to the 'Settings' in Mega. Before, there were no files in the Testing folder. Now, the project files have been uploaded.

22. If you go to the 'Draft' folder, your files should look something like this. You're now set to write on the go with your phone.

24. Click until you get to files themselves. Select the one you want to edit.

25. Click on the green 'Edit' icon in the bottom right hand corner of the screen.

26. I usually write in my phone's Notes app and then copy-paste it, so I don't have to worry about wifi and potentially losing my work. If you have steady wifi/data, then feel free to just write in the app; there is no auto-save function though. Saving only happens when you click the green check mark at the top.

And that little green down arrow will take you to the following page

So if you're on the first page and you copy-paste and think, "uh, wtf it didn't paste, where is it?", click through to the end of the pages and make sure it didn't.

Because Dropbox is dumb and being very glitchy lately, the sync function is no longer reliable. I spent a day trying to figure out why it wasn't syncing only to find out this is now an issue among Android and iOS users alike. Given the piddly space Dropbox gives as well as these ongoing issues, I decided to jump ship. If have Scrivener and are thinking of doing the same, here's a lil guide for you.

I opted to go with Mega. Their free account comes with 20 GB. Their website says 20, but if you download the mobile and desktop app, you get a 5 GB bonus for each. I suspect it might not be a permanent bonus, likely for a year, but I'll check again in the summer of 2025. They are also more privacy-oriented and have no AI scraping (like Google).

This walkthrough is for Android. I'd imagine the steps are similar for iOS, but I can't say for sure.

1. Make a Mega account, go through all that registration stuff.

2. Download the mobile app. Log in.

3. Download the desktop app. Log in

4. Open File Explorer and make a folder wherever you'd like your files to be synced from.

5. Once the desktop app is installed, you need to look for the icon to open the program. I found it in my task bar. The little red M icon is what you need to open.

6. Go to the three dots and double click to open up options.

7. Go to settings.

8. Go to the Sync option in the Settings menu. Select Add.

9. Another dialogue box will pop up. One the 'Local Folder' line, click 'Add'.

10. Select the folder you made specifically for sync. For this walkthrough, I'm using the 'Testing' folder.

11. Once you've selected your folder, you'll be back at the previous dialogue box. Now click on 'Select' on the MEGA folder line.

12. I forgot to take a screenshot, but you'll have a new dialogue box pop up with an empty list. Select the grey box saying 'New Folder'. You can name it whatever you want but I gave it the name 'Test'. Once done, your screen should look similar to the one below. Then click 'OK'.

13. When done, your dialogue box should look like below. This is the crucial step as this is how the Mega program will help you sync with Scrivener. Make sure these folders are exactly where you want them to be and are named as you want. Once you're certain, click 'Add'

14. When done, you'll have a list that looks similar to this. The first step is done.

16. Once your subfolder is made, open up Scrivener and go to the 'Sync' option in the 'File' menu. Select 'with External Folder'.

17. In the new dialogue box, click on 'Choose' in the top option of 'Shared Folder'

18. Select the subfolder you created in your main synced folder. If you only have the one project you wish to sync, you can simply select the main folder, as shown here in the walkthrough.

19. In the 'Sync' dialogue box, go down to the 'Format' section and make sure the 'Forrmat for External Draft Files' is set to plain text and the ext (extension name) is txt. This will enable you to edit the files in the Mega app. Click 'Sync'.

!! - RTF will not work, DO NOT CHOOSE THIS OPTION

20. What Scrivener will do now is create a 'Draft' folder, with all the files for the project. If you only have the one project, you're fine. If you have multiple projects to sync, you MUST have subfolders (one for each project to sync).

21. You can confirm the sync was successful by going back to the 'Settings' in Mega. Before, there were no files in the Testing folder. Now, the project files have been uploaded.

22. If you go to the 'Draft' folder, your files should look something like this. You're now set to write on the go with your phone.

24. Click until you get to files themselves. Select the one you want to edit.

25. Click on the green 'Edit' icon in the bottom right hand corner of the screen.

26. I usually write in my phone's Notes app and then copy-paste it, so I don't have to worry about wifi and potentially losing my work. If you have steady wifi/data, then feel free to just write in the app; there is no auto-save function though. Saving only happens when you click the green check mark at the top.

Because Dropbox is dumb and being very glitchy lately, the sync function is no longer reliable. I spent a day trying to figure out why it wasn't syncing only to find out this is now an issue among Android and iOS users alike. Given the piddly space Dropbox gives as well as these ongoing issues, I decided to jump ship. If have Scrivener and are thinking of doing the same, here's a lil guide for you.

I opted to go with Mega. Their free account comes with 20 GB. Their website says 20, but if you download the mobile and desktop app, you get a 5 GB bonus for each. I suspect it might not be a permanent bonus, likely for a year, but I'll check again in the summer of 2025. They are also more privacy-oriented and have no AI scraping (like Google).

This walkthrough is for Android. I'd imagine the steps are similar for iOS, but I can't say for sure.

1. Make a Mega account, go through all that registration stuff.

2. Download the mobile app. Log in.

3. Download the desktop app. Log in

4. Open File Explorer and make a folder wherever you'd like your files to be synced from.

5. Once the desktop app is installed, you need to look for the icon to open the program. I found it in my task bar. The little red M icon is what you need to open.

6. Go to the three dots and double click to open up options.

7. Go to settings.

8. Go to the Sync option in the Settings menu. Select Add.

9. Another dialogue box will pop up. One the 'Local Folder' line, click 'Add'.

10. Select the folder you made specifically for sync. For this walkthrough, I'm using the 'Testing' folder.

11. Once you've selected your folder, you'll be back at the previous dialogue box. Now click on 'Select' on the MEGA folder line.

12. I forgot to take a screenshot, but you'll have a new dialogue box pop up with an empty list. Select the grey box saying 'New Folder'. You can name it whatever you want but I gave it the name 'Test'. Once done, your screen should look similar to the one below. Then click 'OK'.

13. When done, your dialogue box should look like below. This is the crucial step as this is how the Mega program will help you sync with Scrivener. Make sure these folders are exactly where you want them to be and are named as you want. Once you're certain, click 'Add'

14. When done, you'll have a list that looks similar to this. The first step is done.

16. Once your subfolder is made, open up Scrivener and go to the 'Sync' option in the 'File' menu. Select 'with External Folder'.

17. In the new dialogue box, click on 'Choose' in the top option of 'Shared Folder'

18. Select the subfolder you created in your main synced folder. If you only have the one project you wish to sync, you can simply select the main folder, as shown here in the walkthrough.

19. In the 'Sync' dialogue box, go down to the 'Format' section and make sure the 'Forrmat for External Draft Files' is set to plain text and the ext (extension name) is txt. This will enable you to edit the files in the Mega app. Click 'Sync'.

!! - RTF will not work, DO NOT CHOOSE THIS OPTION

20. What Scrivener will do now is create a 'Draft' folder, with all the files for the project. If you only have the one project, you're fine. If you have multiple projects to sync, you MUST have subfolders (one for each project to sync).

21. You can confirm the sync was successful by going back to the 'Settings' in Mega. Before, there were no files in the Testing folder. Now, the project files have been uploaded.

22. If you go to the 'Draft' folder, your files should look something like this. You're now set to write on the go with your phone.