A way to save stories offline

[MidbossMan]

Hey all! I've been really enjoying being a part of this site and writing here has been very addictive. I'm hoping for its continued prosperity!

One thing that's been on my mind, though: could we get some feature to either export a story to a format that can be saved offline, or otherwise, to view all the story writing together on one page (or a number of long pages) so that it can be copied and saved?

It might not be an easy thing to implement, but it would provide the advantages of:
1) Being able to preserve a story without jumping pages a ton of times, in the event that something should happen to the site.
2) Allowing people to read offline if they either can't get internet access or otherwise need to stay off the site (blockers, monitored traffic, that kind of thing).

To be clear, it would be enough to be able to get all of it in one document or on a page together (or multiple page, just not broken onto hundreds of different webpages). That's not the ideal way to read it, obviously, but a much easier way to save it all. The best way would be if it can export as a text or word file, but I wouldn't be picky about how you choose to do it.

Thanks to all staff and writers for providing me a great place to write and read!

 

[Durzan]

This has my vote.

 

[SeriousBrainDamage]

Sounds tricky enough to accomplish.

 

[hardddick433]

hoping i can semi-revive this thread because of a particular story being deleted soon, I would much like to keep a number of the 3000+ chapters

 

[uppitygracie]

I like the idea of a story export. I currently save the last draft of my chapters on my computer. If I make a final edit before hitting publish, I try to remember to copy/paste it back over the draft. It'd be nice if my backup fails to have an easy way to do this though

 

[Hvast]

I am still trying to find a way to do this, anyone have ideas? Someone in another thread suggested a website copier program. You can theoretically save the story map page with a depth of one page in terms of links from that page. I can't get it to work on this site though. I can get it to work on other sites, so I think there is a special challenge with CHYOA for some reason. Anyone get this to work?

You need to be logged in to view a story tree. So it won't work
if you just point a website downloader to it. You need to make it log in.

 

[Hvast]

You can load login credentials to common web downloader programs though, and it still doesn't work. Still looking for a solution here if anyone has ideas.

This will NOT work with a form based authentification. Those are for a small subset of authentification methods

You need an actual login link. And I don't mean https://chyoa.com/auth/login I mean the one that browser actually goes to when you push that login button after filling in login\password (perhaps, PERHAPS, some website downloaders will work if you point them directly at https://chyoa.com/auth/login and use their login\pasword feature but I wouldn't count on this)

You need to do something like this - http://httrack.kauler.com/help/CatchURL_tutorial

PS. Don't forget to exclude https://chyoa.com/auth/logout because web downloader will happily go there and log you out

PPS. I wouldn't use login password of my actual account and create one for this purpose. Just to be safe. You can always ask to delete this account if inflating chyoa's database worries you.

 

[Zingiber]

Upvote a story fetcher.

 

[TheLowKing]

You can load login credentials to common web downloader programs though, and it still doesn't work. Still looking for a solution here if anyone has ideas.

I don't know if you're still interested in this, but CHYOA authentication is entirely cookie-based. Just provide the cookies you have in your browser session to whatever program you use, and you're good to go.