DESCRIPTION
DownloadStory is an application that was put together to facilitate downloading all of a fanfiction story off of any of the biggest fanfiction websites. Once downloaded, the entire story is available even when you are offline - great for car or airplane trips, or for installing on a handheld device to read on the go. DownloadStory currently supports FanFiction.net, FanFicAuthors.net (including stories that require logging in), Portkey.org, The Wonderful World of Makebelieve (http://www.squidge.org/~peja/), SugarQuill.net, Checkmated.com, and PhoenixSong.net.
HOW IT WORKS
Once you provide the web page address of the beginning of the story (the first chapter always works, and I try to support index pages as well), then the software will download each chapter in the background, saving the files into a temporary folder created on your desktop. While this is going on you can do anything else you want. Once the software has downloaded all of the chapters, it combines all of the them together into your preference of a html or text file. Finally it takes that compiled document and puts it in a folder called "New Stories" on your desktop. From there you are welcome to use it however you wish - I personally use another application I've created to convert it into a Palm handheld document to read it on the go, which I may build into this one at some point in the future, if there is demand for it.
FUTURE UPGRADES
Support for FictionAlley.org (including Schnoogle.com), other requests?
Support for stories that require logging in at Checkmated.com
Allow option to automatically install on a Palm handheld
Triggering off of an email (such as author alerts, etc.)
Other requests?
KNOWN BUGS
None
CONTACT INFORMATION
Please email any bugs you find or feature requests you have to talix@warpmail.net - the great thing about shareware is the personal support! Also, I'm hoping that if it is useful to you you'll consider donating $5 to support future development. If you do, I'll tell you how to get rid of the startup window, and you'll have my undying gratitude. Not to mention free upgrades for life. Even if you can't spare any money, though, throw me an email if you use this often - it'd be nice just to know that anyone out there cares!
VERSION HISTORY
v1.2.2 (8/21/06)
Fixed an error when downloading stories from FanFiction.net with only one chapter
Added extra error checking when downloading pages
v1.2 (7/30/06)
Now supports SugarQuill.net, Checkmated.com, and by popular request, PhoenixSong.net
Now supports downloading stories that require logging in at FanFicAuthors.net
Now catches error pages from FanFiction.net
Fixed an issue in which certain links at FanFiction.net were returning error pages
v1.1 (7/12/06)
Now supports The Wonderful World of Makebelieve (http://www.squidge.org/~peja/) per user request
User preference: Download timeout (defaults to none)
User preference: Automatically added file name prefix (defaults to none) - version 1.0 used "HP ", since I only used this for Harry Potter stories
User preference: Output format (defaults to html, to preserve more formatting)
Added chapter URL, story title, and chapter number to the top of each chapter for easy reference
Modified to only add "HP" title prefix to those stories that used to start with "Harry Potter"
Now looks for the next chapter link for Fanfiction.net, saving time by not trying to download a non-existent chapter to figure out the story is finished
v1.0 (7/4/06)
First public release
Supports FanFiction.net, FanFicAuthors.net, and Portkey.org
