Fanfiction Downloader and freeform tags.

[sketchme]

Does anyone here use the FFDL plugin for Calibre?

If so, how do you manage the Freeform tags? Any tips/advice?

I've been using FFDL for some weeks now, and I've accumulated about 200 AO3 fics. I've left the freeform tags alone but I now have over 500 tags, and that could keep on increasing. So I'm thinking I should try to manage them a bit. But how?

It's not as simple as Fandom tags. Where you can tidy things up with replace_metadata. The freeform tags are huge, you'd be doing the job of the wranglers.

I wish FFDL could get hold of the canonical tags for a fic. It would make things more workable. Does anyone know if AO3 attaches those tags to a story?

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[samjohnsson]

I wish FFDL could get hold of the canonical tags for a fic. It would make things more workable. Does anyone know if AO3 attaches those tags to a story?

Unfortunately, no - that's handled entirely in the database. In theory, they could technologically be added as hidden metadata; however, current practice is that Tags are Content, so unless something breaks the ToS, they're sacrosanct.

[sketchme]

Yeah, I was hoping it was at least hidden metadata. :( But then I've often thought the work of the wranglers should be brought out into the light. The canonical tags could be a OTW project in its own right. An urban dictionary type thing for fanfiction.

I mean, it really is a dictionary that the wranglers are compiling. It's an enormous task. It seems a bit of a waste that it's just in the background to support freeform tags.

Imagine if you could then install the dictionary on devices or apps like calibre.