What's new in DownloadStory 2.0
Jul 20, 2015
- Completely rewritten using the LabVIEW programming language to allow more features and future improvements!
- All new graphical user interface
- Now supports multiple downloads at once, along with pausing and resuming downloads
- Fixed compatibility with the latest operating system versions
- Thank you for those who have patiently waited for an update!
- Unfortunately, due to completely rewriting the program, I had to drop support for most websites; the ones that DS2 supports are as follows:
- Fanfiction.net
- Ficwad.com
- Sugarquill.net
New in DownloadStory 1.5.2 (Apr 8, 2013)
- Fixed compatibility with new FanFiction.net story formatting
New in DownloadStory 1.5.1 (Dec 27, 2011)
- Now supports http://www.ashwinder.sycophanthex.com/
- Now supports http://www.thepetulantpoetess.com/
- Now supports http://www.witchfics.org/
- Now supports http://www.obscurusbooks.org/
- Improved parsing of FicWad stories to avoid infinite downloads on stories with self-referencing Next links
New in DownloadStory 1.5 (Dec 6, 2010)
- Now allows entering another story when done, rather than always quitting
- Now checks for new versions on startup
- Now supports archive.skyehawke.com - paid request
- Added stripping of extraneous text before and after the story for all supported sites
- Fixed a bug which made some stories black-on-black in HTML format, making them very hard to read
- Fixed support for restricted stories at Checkmated.com
- Fixed problem with Portkey.org taking forever to finish
- Fixed problem with Sabrina Online downloading infinite copies of chapter 53
- FanFicAuthors.net now provides whole story downloads in various formats including ePub, therefore DownloadStory now just refers to user to those
- Kinsfire.net is no longer supported, as Kinsfire has an account on FanFicAuthors.net
- Vastly improved registration process
- Added much more logging to aid in debugging errors
New in DownloadStory 1.4.1 (Nov 9, 2009)
- Bug fix for the annoying "corrupted preferences" warning.
New in DownloadStory 1.4 (Sep 14, 2009)
- This update is a direct result of a paid feature request:
- Now correctly displays smart quotes, apostrophes, etc., on FanFiction.net
- Now displays the correct story title in Stanza
- Now supports crvboy.org
- Updated to support new type of chapter links at checkmated.com
- Added additional error catching
New in DownloadStory 1.3 (Jul 6, 2009)
- A user bug report prompted me to post an update to this application!
- Now supports automatic separation of chapters when using Stanza
- Now writes error text file to desktop if error, and success text file that gets deleted if success dialog box is acknowledged
- Now supports Fictionalley.org (Schnoogle.com, etc.), Sink Into Your Eyes (http://www.siye.co.uk), Ficwad (http://www.ficwad.com), and Kinsfire.net
- Now supports Sabrina Online the Story (http://www.chrisfoxx.com/), and Zig Zag the Story (http://www.zzstudios.com/)
- Now actually deletes temp files instead of placing them in trash
- Now strips out excessive pull-down menu items from fanfiction.net pages
- Now only puts About DownloadStory prefix in front of first chapter, instead of every chapter
- Fixed a couple bugs that resulted when the preferences file was corrupted