Datasets:
Comment here to check which of your fics were included - SOME ARCHIVE-LOCKED FICS WERE SCRAPED
Hi writers!
After reviewing the modified dataset (the one removing all work text but leaving everything else), there ARE fics included which I and other authors know were locked before February to March 2025. Do not assume you're not included just because your fic was archive-locked. Best I can tell, this person started out logged in and scraping every fic they ran into, and eventually either logged out or got banned and started scraping only public works. They also missed some public works entirely.
If you want a lookup on your fics (based on the modified dataset which is still available), you're welcome to drop your AO3 username below for a lookup. I'll check anytime outside of my work hours. I've done a quick summarization on the data, so what I can easily get you is a list of work ID numbers and titles.
New edit: After much more review and lots of community feedback, I'm seeing a significant number of locked fics included. There is no clear criteria for which fics were included or excluded in this scrape. After reviewing the provided GitHub link, it looks like random chance as a result of an amateur coding error, with a small degree more protection for locked fics.
If you'd still like to do a check on your fics, you can look up your username here at your convenience. This is a simple data dashboard using only select metadata from the dataset to allow you to check whether your fics were included in the scrape. The dashboard does NOT contain any of your work text, only work ID, title, author, chapter count at the time of the scrape, and sometimes hit count at the time of the scrape since the dataset was not collected consistently. You can use the chapter count and hit count to help pin down when you were scraped if you like. I know from reviewing my own data that three of my fics were hit on March 9th and March 15th.
You can use the second page on this older, slower version of the tool if you need to look up a work by its work ID. This is useful for looking up orphaned or anonymous works.
Both tools return the top 2,000 fic results, so if you've published more than 2,000 fics, you are absolutely still welcome to ask me to do a custom lookup for you.
As a heads up, this dataset has been a repeated topic of conversation on 4chan, and you may be targeted by people from there if you respond to any discussion on this dataset. I recommend not responding here if you don't need to so that you don't open yourself up to that. My Tumblr is linked on both versions of the dashboard linked above, and you are welcome to communicate there to reduce the chances you'll be harassed.
please can you check under sporthb1 ? thank you so much for the service
hii, can you please check under ScreamingPotatoes? Thank you so much 💕💕💕
could you check that_onecookiehead please? thank you !!
I didn't use any accounts when I was collecting the dataset
please can you check under sporthb1 ? thank you so much for the service
Of course! Please do NOT acknowledge any fics that were missed here! (That helps the scrapers get better at it.) BUT if you're willing, I would love to hear from you by DM on Tumblr if there are any of your fics not shown here. This will help me figure out why some of the fics were skipped.
34744495 5+1 cat fic
35710732 I will never deserve thee
36662830 exposition shizzle
36663250 That’s the catitude!
37732933 No kitten- I’m smitten
37766389 Lewis 24.3.21
38047318 The spokes person
38457709 Inheritance
39776604 What Going On Here Then
41033415 Ive always wanted to say
43736139 Sliding and crashing
hii, can you please check under ScreamingPotatoes? Thank you so much 💕💕💕
Of course! Please do NOT acknowledge any fics that were missed here! (That helps the scrapers get better at it.) BUT if you're willing, I would love to hear from you by DM on Tumblr if there are any of your fics not shown here. This will help me figure out why some of the fics were skipped.
58230931 F*cking Things Up Is My
61029202 The Art of Coming Back
62374234 Alex Rider Drabbles
Thank you for checking for me.
Thank you so much for checking!!
Please do NOT acknowledge any fics that were missed here! (That helps the scrapers get better at it.)
Hi @nothankies can you search for AO3 user DrSteggy
Thank you
39821856 One Last Look
39821952 Rainy Days
39935508 Age
39941331 Sparring
40066305 Healing
41129871 The Constant
45207880 The Stranger
46523389 Legend of Zelda the
49675426 Rising Storm
52360747 The Longest Night
52804024 The Dragon at Lanayru
56005270 Crisis at Hyrule Castle
56273194 Uneasy Lies the Chosen
57873805 Biding Time
62909671 Fateful Morning
Hi, could you check AO3 user BiFelicia319 please? Finally worked up the spoons to try to see if my works have been scraped 😒
Never mind. Just found the tool through your Tumblr links
I didn't use any accounts when I was collecting the dataset
Hey, asshole! You scraped literally everything I’ve written and I wish absolutely nothing but the absolute worst possible things on you. And I mean every word. Whenever bad things happen to you, no matter how bad? Just know that I’m smiling and cheering and hoping that you suffer more. Now GET MY SHIT OUT OF YOUR SCRAPE, you useless sack of crap