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Is there some way to download an individual threadmark for offline reading?

Discussion in 'Suggestions & Bugs' started by Tokita, Oct 9, 2020.

  1. Tokita

    Tokita Getting sticky.

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    Or, similarly, all of the threadmarks in a given thread without also including any user comments sandwiched in-between them? Just wondering.

    I suppose this could be taken as a suggestion for the forum, hence why I created it here.
     
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  2. MissileTeatime

    MissileTeatime By the power of Vaporware!

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    One threadmark? Use your browser to save the page (usually in the right-click menu), or just leave the tab open. Easy-peasy.

    All the threadmarks? Uh... Well, the above trick will work so long as there's fewer than 30 threadmarks, unless you're on mobile maybe, but I'm not sure if it remains practical past 60 threadmarks.

    I remember at least one forum I'm on frowns on scraper-download tools, but I don't remember if QQ takes a stance on them. I know they exist, there's even one I've seen recommended for literally exactly this use-case.
     
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  3. Grub

    Grub Know what you're doing yet?

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    Note that the one for SB/SV/QQ doesn't work on any forum that requires a login, such as the lewd ones here.
     
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  4. Facepalmist

    Facepalmist Well, that happened...

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    Threadmarks?

    Enter Reader Mode. Right-click (or equivalent), 'Save Page As...'. Repeat for however many pages.
     
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  5. MissileTeatime

    MissileTeatime By the power of Vaporware!

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    The one I tried worked, I just had to add my login info to the config file.

    But I don't know if we're talking about the same one; even me admitting to having used one at all ever is a significant ratcheting-down in how evasive I'm being on the topic!
     
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  6. r1ncewind

    r1ncewind Getting sticky.

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    i would also be interested in this
     
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  7. doug89

    doug89 Versed in the lewd.

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    Calibre with the plugin FanficFare.
     
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  8. alethiophile

    alethiophile Shadowed Philosopher Administrator

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    Note that FanFicFare can be configured with your username and password to access login-only threads, and QQ has no objection to people using it so long as it doesn't cause problems on the server end (unlikely).
     
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  9. MissileTeatime

    MissileTeatime By the power of Vaporware!

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    Can confirm, as this is the tool I was being evasive about above.
     
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  10. da3monh0st3d

    da3monh0st3d Эскапист

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    Fanficfare includes some added & tunable default delays during the crawling to be friendlier on the server backends and the devs are open to requests for higher delays from the administrators of supported sites. Spacebattles made such a request at some point.

    One could also just make a PR that do it outright, it'd be accepted.

    edit: fixed typos
     
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  11. Mana_Knight_Jorin

    Mana_Knight_Jorin The Mana Knight

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    Yeah. Here. https://fic.pw/
     
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  12. Tokita

    Tokita Getting sticky.

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    Threadmarks filed under the Extras category for a given story disappear when selecting Reader Mode. Do you know if this is a bug or...?
     
  13. MissileTeatime

    MissileTeatime By the power of Vaporware!

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    They disappear when clicking on the "Reader Mode" button at the top or bottom of the page? That is intended behavior. Each threadmark category has its own reader mode that only shows threadmarks from that category. To access the reader mode for a different category, open the threadmarks list for that category (with the dropdown for that category at the top or bottom of the page, or the pop-up list that appears when you click the category label on a threadmark in that category) and click on "Reader Mode" within that list.

    They disappear from Reader Mode for that category? And they're not just on a different page within reader mode? That is a bug. Please report it with a link to the thread where you're having trouble, and links to or descriptions of the threadmarks/posts that are going missing. I think convention for reporting bugs is to create a thread in the suggestions & bugs forum about it.
     
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  14. Mana_Knight_Jorin

    Mana_Knight_Jorin The Mana Knight

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  15. Lector312

    Lector312 Not too sore, are you?

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    A bit old but is there any way to download from Calibre/FanficFare with 2FA enabled?
     
  16. MissileTeatime

    MissileTeatime By the power of Vaporware!

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    That sounds to me like a FanficFare question as much as anything else. Are you also asking in appropriate FanficFare support channels?
     
  17. Lector312

    Lector312 Not too sore, are you?

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    I did. No real way to do it according to them except disabling 2FA. Thought I would ask over here to be sure
     
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  18. alethiophile

    alethiophile Shadowed Philosopher Administrator

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    QQ's 2FA is a bespoke Xenforo version that requires access to your E-mail. It's doubtful it would be worth it to the FanFicFare people to implement support for it.

    I recommend just disabling 2FA as necessary while you're downloading.
     
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