Datasets:
Source code, I guess
FYI - The source code for the tool used to create this dataset is now available on Codeberg:
https://github.com/nyuuzyou/otwarchive-downloader
(Note: This was one of my first serious Go projects, so the code quality is... It just works!)
This seems really useful! I had some questions about it:
Is there a concern that many people using this at once could overwhelm the OTW?
This code doesn't require an AO3 account, so it should only find public works. Some people here have claimed registered users only works were found in the dataset. How could that have happened? Is there an error in AO3's download feature?
It is unlikely that the script will be used by multiple people at the same time, but even if it is, the work will already be in the Cloudflare cache and the request will never reach the AO3 backend.
I haven't checked this and I don't know, also these are single posts and I don't exclude that these people could be wrong, because also some people say that they didn't find their restricted works. In any case, this is a serious security issue and these questions should be addressed directly to the otwarchive developers.
