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The purpose of this community is to be a place for fans of the Archive of Our Own to come and discuss, connect, and share.

Discuss - anything that comes to mind! Features, suggestions, news, volunteer work, tagging practices, bookmarking practices. Just anything you'd like to talk about with other AO3 enthusiasts.

Connect - tell people who you are on AO3! Find new people (and old) to subscribe to.

Share - invite codes, skins, tips and tricks, user scripts.

This community was inspired in part by

deliciouslymad (

deliciouslymad), a community for fans of the social bookmarking site delicious.com. This is not a place to complain about things that are-not-yet at AO3, but to have fun conversations about what we already love, and would love to see for the site.

Above all, be awesome to each other.

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mossy_bench

I use a fair number of them but I always find it neat when I come across new ones. What are your favorite AO3 script and/or third-party tools? I think the one that I'd miss the most is the Kudos'd and Seen History script.

sylvaine

I seem to remember DW or LJ having - either natively or with an add-on - a way of adding private notes to a person's username which would pop up in the hover menu, where you could put, well, whatever comments you wanted to about the person, but which I tended to see people use for names, pronouns, usernames elsewhere, where they knew the person from, etc. Is there a tool of some kind that would let me do this on AO3? I would prefer it not be a hover menu, since those are difficult on mobile, and if they could be synced between devices in some way that would be even better, but really I'd be happy if this exists at all in any way.

Alternatively, does anyone know if this kind of thing is even technically possible to do?

juniperphoenix

I'm hoping someone can help me locate an AO3 script or add-on I heard about a while ago. It provides a hovering text box where you can draft a comment as you read. I can't remember the name of it. Does anyone know where I can find this? I checked the AO3 FAQ, but it's not among the third-party tools listed there, and my searches of DW and Tumblr haven't turned up anything. Any ideas?

arcanetrivia

1. Is there a place to submit enhancement requests, as opposed reporting problems? (I thought it would be handy if in kudos notifications the username of the person who left the kudos was a link to their profile. When people leave me reviews or kudos I like to go check out if they have written anything and/or bookmarked any fic I might like, which would be quicker if that was a link.)

2. Back on April 22 I sent a support request because I had been noticing for a while before that that I was getting what appeared to be bad hits in the RSS feed for the character tag Campbell Bain, i.e. fic that was not actually tagged Campbell Bain but tagged with various other Campbells, as though there had maybe been an inappropriate wrangle to alias characters that shouldn't have been aliased. I never received any reply (and from the look of the tag page it has not been fixed). Should I send another one? do nothing? other? (... dunno what "other" would be XD )

arcanetrivia

Before I contact Support I wondered if anyone else had noticed this: today, first noticed around 2/24/2018 12:00 PM Pacific time, I have been seeing RSS feed items with broken title links of form similar to http://unicorn_feeds_back/works/13786644, rather than the expected http://archiveofourown.org/works/13786644. In such a feed item with this "unicorn feeds back" bit, in fact all the links are broken in the same way - http://unicorn_feeds_back/users/BlutEngel/pseuds/BlutEngel, http://unicorn_feeds_back/series/953235, http://unicorn_feeds_back/tags/Harry%20Potter%20-%20J*d*%20K*d*%20Rowling/works etc. Right now I am seeing both correct and broken items in the same feed, but mostly broken ones (Severus Snape character tag feed). Anyone else getting this?

kate_nepveu

Hi all, Is there a third-party tool to mass-edit AO3 bookmarks? Specifically, to replace one bookmark tag with another? I suspect there is not, but it would be pretty great, so I thought I'd ask. Thanks!

alexwlchan

I think it’s a bit of a shared frustration that AO3 doesn’t have a public API, which makes getting data harder than it could be.

I needed to get access to AO3 data in a Python script (specifically, some scripts for auto-tagging AO3 bookmarks on Pinboard), and so I threw together a Python module that acts as a pseudo-API. This is very rough code, written in a hurry, but it works and proves the concept. It’s probably not the easiest thing to install (sorry) but the README should give you some idea of what’s available.

Potentially of extra interest: this gives you a way to get a list of all fics where you’ve left kudos. (Albeit it very slowly, if you’ve read a lot of stuff.)

On GitHub: https://github.com/alexwlchan/ao3

zaluzianskya

Here! It highlights a tag when you hover over it, which makes it a bit easier to parse individual tags in the huge sea that is tagset listboxes. Highlight and text color settings are customizable.

And another, since this is still the topmost post: This one changes the comma between tags to something more legible. The default is a large bullet, but I included some other options too.

meridian_rose

I love AO3 and I especially love the download feature so I can grab longer works and put them on my e-reader. Free bedtime reading for the win! I generally download in epub format and am overall satisfied with the results with one small caveat.

The metadata for a downloaded epub contains the fic title and the author name. However I'm in a lot of fandoms and tend to upload a lot of fic to my ereader in one go a few times a year rather than occasional updates regularly. Then I often have no idea, when I come to read some of my recently uploaded fic, which fic is which – ie which fandom, without opening several new fics until I find the one I want.

I'm currently saving an epub as fictitle-fandom-author.epub, then opening the downloaded epub in calibre, adding the fandom to the title metadata, and converting to an epub (ie making a copy of the epub with the new title) so when I look on my reader I can see the amended title.

So: Title becomes Title-Fandom and displays as
Title-Fandom (by) Fic Author on my ereader.

There has to be an easier way to do this? Could this be a possible adaptation to the download feature? Maybe an opt-in one?

zaluzianskya

I made a script! Well... actually someone else made a script and I just tweaked it at the advice of afterandalasia.

The base script is Tegan's Ao3 Crossover Savior, but this hides works with too many relationships instead. Because I freaking hate searching for one of my rarepairs and running into page upon page of Juggernaut Ship I Don’t Care For with one passing reference to My Beloved Rarepair that the author decided to tag for anyway???

You can configure the script to decide how many ships a work has to have before it's hidden. The default is 2, but you can increase it if you want. Or, if you’re bitter and jaded like me, you can decrease it to 1.

Current Mood: productive

sally_maria

I have a minor problem with links on the archive, and I was wondering if anyone else felt the same way, and if they had come up with a solution. Being a ridiculously picky person, I don't like having a mixture of bookmarks, some to stories in collections, and others that aren't. So I always have to edit the URL to get the non-collection version of a link.

Does anyone know if there is a way to automate that, either something that defaults to taking you to the non-collection version or a button that removes the collection part of the link? I know it's a minor issue, and I can carry on the way I do at the moment, but if there is a solution, I'd be very grateful.

Current Mood: frustrated

sketchme

Is the saved filters script working for anyone? This is such an invaluble script, one of the first I ever used on AO3. Though it's been a while since I browsed the site, and it's now stopped working for me.

But it seems like there's been some changes on AO3 anyway. The works page no longer has the filter, or was it always like that?

aurum

Two userscripts I made:

Kudosed and seen history
Highlight or hide works you kudosed/marked as seen.

Kudos/hits ratio
Replace hitcount with kudos/hits percentage. Sort works on the page by this ratio.

More info on their pages. Suggestions welcome :)

gossymer

Was wondering if there's a way to filter fics so we see only fics with at least X number of kudos for every chapter.

So if X=100 then

A fic with 5 chapters and 520 kudos will show but a fic with 3 chapters and 120 kudos won't.

Just went through 100+ pages of fic and it was exhausting - it would make getting into new fandoms with boatloads of fic easier.

jamethiel

Hi everyone

I was wondering if anyone knew of a script to replace a particular word with another one on AO3? (eg., rediculous with ridiculous). I've been looking with no luck thus far. Anyone got any ideas?

stepps

Hey guys, so glad to see people are still getting something out of this community!

A little while ago eosrose asked if there was a way to indicate fic they've left kudos for/commented on.

In the discussion flamebyrd explained that as AO3 doesn't display that info at all, or even that you've visited a page except for your browser's own history, so no way to use the data and make it more obvious.

I'm wondering though if there is a script for Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey that would show that the top of a fic page with the regular header info that you've left kudos/commented/bookmarked this fic? I find it really odd and a bit annoying that you have to reattempt any of these functions to find out you've already done them. And it would of cause help us to quickly recognise that we have in fact read that fic already (something I am pretty poor at, now that I don't use delicious.com or pinboard regularly).

Any help appreciated (even if it's to tell me it can't be done).

pineapplechild

I couldn't find anything to export Ao3 bookmarks to Pinboard, so I threw together a python script to do so. Some friends of mine wanted a copy, and so I threw it up on GitHub. You have to know how to run a python script, and it relies on a couple python packages, but it's pretty simple to do.
It was a little slapped together, and is not the most beautiful code in the world, but if you want to check it out and let me know how it works for you, that'd be cool. Just remember to turn off any sort of Twitter/etc crossposting or your tlist will want to murder you for spamming. :)

Find script on GitHub

flamebyrd

Hello! At the suggestion of

morbane, I've created a bookmarklet to format AO3 exchange requests nicely for use in a DW/LJ post or email. The intention is to make the process of posting pinch hits a little quicker for mods.

Find it here. I've tested in Chrome and Firefox, but not in any other browsers.

carene_waterman

I made a bookmarklet ages ago to reorder the fandom pages by number of works instead of alphabetical. I fixed it just now to work with the new AO3 html. You can find the bookamarklet at my github page

If you already use the bookmarklet, delete it and re-save it from the above link.

And remember kids, don't use someone else's presentational html classes in your scripts, because they might just get rid of them one day.

sketchme

There's an option on the "New Collection" page where the wording is a bit weird. What does this mean?

"This collection is unrevealed"

That the collection is hidden from public view?

I'm wanting to make some reading lists and I'm thinking of using collections.

Current Mood: creative

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Page Summary

stepps - Introduction, and links
mossy_bench - Favorite Scripts and Third-Party Tools?
sylvaine - tool to add comments to author/creator names?
juniperphoenix - Commenting script?
arcanetrivia - Enhancement requests, and wondering about a support request I never heard back from
arcanetrivia - (no subject)
kate_nepveu - mass edit bookmarks?
alexwlchan - A Python API for AO3 (well, ish)
zaluzianskya - New userstyle for making tagsets more legible
meridian_rose - Metadata in Downloads - Title and Author but not Fandom?
zaluzianskya - Ao3 Relationship Savior
sally_maria - Removing collection from links
sketchme - Is it working?? Saved Filters Script
aurum - Userscripts: "Kudosed and seen history" and "Kudos/hits ratio"
gossymer - Userscript/Filter for Kudos/Chapter Ratio
jamethiel - Greasemonkey script to replace a word?
stepps - Scritp to highlight/indicate bookmarked fic?
pineapplechild - Ao3 Bookmarks to Pinboard Bookmarks Python Script
flamebyrd - Pinch Hit Helper Bookmarklet
carene_waterman - Reorder Fandoms Bookmarklet
sketchme - Question about collections

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Favorite Scripts and Third-Party Tools?

tool to add comments to author/creator names?

Commenting script?

Enhancement requests, and wondering about a support request I never heard back from

(no subject)

mass edit bookmarks?

A Python API for AO3 (well, ish)

New userstyle for making tagsets more legible

Metadata in Downloads - Title and Author but not Fandom?

Ao3 Relationship Savior

Removing collection from links

Is it working?? Saved Filters Script

Userscripts: "Kudosed and seen history" and "Kudos/hits ratio"

Userscript/Filter for Kudos/Chapter Ratio

Greasemonkey script to replace a word?

Scritp to highlight/indicate bookmarked fic?

Ao3 Bookmarks to Pinboard Bookmarks Python Script

Pinch Hit Helper Bookmarklet

Reorder Fandoms Bookmarklet

Question about collections