Fimfarchive 20171203 released!

Eighteenth release with 160109 stories.

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The complete archive.
Name: fimfarchive-20171203.zip
Size: 5.1 GB
Torrent: Takiri
Direct: Sweden
Magnet: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:da2261cd1e21350977aeaea1a2d1c289243f9d6f
MD5: 1437199d8bfb1e501669798e6b356388

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Now with metadata from APIv2, thus breaking backward compatibility. Author's notes have also been added to all currently available stories. No patch will be released since 70% of all stories have been modified.

Comments

[Fluttercheer]

Now with metadata from APIv2, thus breaking backward compatibility

What does this mean exactly?

[Fimfarchive]

4740899

It means that the index now contains more information about stories, such as character tags. People who have written programs relying on the index may have to modify them before they will work with this release. The README contains an example of what the index currently looks like.

This is nothing you need to worry about unless you're a programmer.

[Chinchillax]

You're the best, man!

[Fluttercheer]

4740907

Does it change anything for me as an archivist of the fics? Anything that isn't there anymore, any records that are lost?

[Fimfarchive]

4740910

Aww, thanks!

[Fimfarchive]

4740912

Nope, if anything it just makes the archive more complete!

[Posted]

As always, thank you so much for continuing to create this.

[Fimfarchive]

4740939

No problem, it's my pleasure!

(This gives me a chance to play with snakes.)

[Fluttercheer]

4740915

Awesome, thanks for improving the archive!

[Midnight Sapphire]

Thanks for this!

[Bad Horse]

I'm just curious how you got the link to the API documentation, since I pestered knighty about it, and joined the Discord chat group for it, and the fimfiction group for it, and still never found a single @#$! link to it.

[Fimfarchive]

4741109

You're welcome!

[Fimfarchive]

4741208

I got it from here: https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/747920/fimfiction-api

[Inrix]

Always love these man <3 You're the best!

Seeding with gigabit for those who use the torrent :).

[Fimfarchive]

4741481

Whee!

[Midnight Sapphire]

I was wondering if any one could point me to a software that could convert the index.json to .csv?

[Fimfarchive]

4741650

These don't contain all the information, but I hope they are useful regardless!

Open document spreadsheet: http://jocketf.se/files/fimfarchive/fimfarchive-20171203-index.ods
Comma-separated values: http://jocketf.se/files/fimfarchive/fimfarchive-20171203-index.csv

[Midnight Sapphire]

4744404
Thanks

[Fimfarchive]

4744417

I don't have a nice program to give you though since I just used parts from the Fimfarchive code to slap one together. If you'd like, I can just keep creating CSV exports for you after each release.

[Midnight Sapphire]

4744423
If it isn't to much work.

[Fimfarchive]

4744427

It's not.

[Midnight Sapphire]

4744431
Ok thank you so much!