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[Various authors] Literotica to epub

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So I have a custom written archiver software for literotica that makes it very easy for me to import stories in bulk from the site. I already have imported majority of authors with at least 1 story in any category other than gay and a rating of 3 or more. Thats more than 700k stories and tens of thousands of authors. Just about 11.5gb of compressed text.

Anyway, I recently implemented a feature that allows me to export all authors stories in a single epub that I can read when away from my homelab.

If there is interest I can export your favorite authors for you. Just post their username.

I've attached some of the classics here for you to see the format. Illustrated storeis are supported, you can check Stormbringer's file.

I will not be sharing my code for the archiver so don't ask.
 

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Thanks for the offer. Another way to get all of a Literotica author's work is by using Calibre and the FanFicFare plug in. The books come individually in epub format. If the stories are not finished, running the plugin later will update them.
 
Not sure why the emphasis on "I won't share" the code, but you do you. Another way to download Literotica stories, even on mobile, is by installing the Firefox browser, adding the tampermonkey script manager, creating a greasyfork account, signing in, and adding this script:


I've been using it for years, download in HTML, works great in moon+ reader. He recently added the ability to download stories in epub format, but I haven't tried it yet.

Nice collection, and I'm happy you have a program that helps you save Literotica stories. Too many authors take down their stuff for various reasons, recently because of Literotica's increasing ration of lunacy over AI. So saving good stories is a net benefit.

Edit: um...what is the point of downloading an author's stories into an epub files when the contents aren't even ordered in any sensible manner? Like... The writerAnnabelle epub has HfHM chapters 1-2 then Iceman's Wrath ch 01 then HfHM chapters 2-5 then Iceman's Wrath ch 02...

Wat? The only way to make sense of it is to rename the epub file to a zip, strip out the component html files, and reorder them.

I'm still happy you have something to save stories, but I'll stick to my userscript method, if the alternative is having to do a whole bunch of work to fix the files, y'know?
 
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Stories within the epub are ordered by publishing date, that is the only sensible manner that works for (almost) all authors. I tried to stick series together but it's a fools errand, literotica data integrity is all kinds of broken and even authors themselves dont bother with maintaining series or sticking to chapter naming consistency.

Feel free to stick to what works for you. I needed full author compilations and no other method works good enough for that.
If you want perfection, you'll have to manually fix literotica's and authors mistakes. I can't do that for thousands of authors, I'm offering an easy export of their data as is.
Btw easy way to reorder chapters is to use proper epub editor like sigil and modify entries in opf. No need to muck around with renaming or extracting html.
 
Not sure why the emphasis on "I won't share" the code, but you do you. Another way to download Literotica stories, even on mobile, is by installing the Firefox browser, adding the tampermonkey script manager, creating a greasyfork account, signing in, and adding this script:


I've been using it for years, download in HTML, works great in moon+ reader. He recently added the ability to download stories in epub format, but I haven't tried it yet.

Nice collection, and I'm happy you have a program that helps you save Literotica stories. Too many authors take down their stuff for various reasons, recently because of Literotica's increasing ration of lunacy over AI. So saving good stories is a net benefit.

Edit: um...what is the point of downloading an author's stories into an epub files when the contents aren't even ordered in any sensible manner? Like... The writerAnnabelle epub has HfHM chapters 1-2 then Iceman's Wrath ch 01 then HfHM chapters 2-5 then Iceman's Wrath ch 02...

Wat? The only way to make sense of it is to rename the epub file to a zip, strip out the component html files, and reorder them.

I'm still happy you have something to save stories, but I'll stick to my userscript method, if the alternative is having to do a whole bunch of work to fix the files, y'know?
I use Chrome an the EpububPressX plugin to save web pages as epubs. I use that for sites that aren't supported by FanFareFic (e.g. Lush Stories, Stories Online, etc.) If there is cover art, it lets you input the URL and it will generate a cover for the epub using that image.

Yes, FFF gets issues from time to time when literotica changes something on the site, but the creator of FFF does a pretty good job of fixing that stuff relatively quickly.

Links to the forum to post bugs and get the latest beta that may have a fix is in this thread.

 
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