About FiMFetch
FiMFetch is an archive of MLP:FiM Fan Fiction Works.
Originally born out of my personal frustration with the limitations of the search engine on FimFiction.net,
I now have a growing list of features this project provides:
- Archive of active and past works of fiction
- Scour multiple fan fiction platforms for MLP fictions
- Easy-to-use grainular search features
- Random daily fictions
- Improved mobile reader formatting
- Multiple mobile reader formats
- User bookshelves and bookshelf story reviews
- An OPDS browsing service for compatible eReaders
- Story tracking
- Printings Tracking
- Audiobook Downloads
Now on Facebook!
What are Stars?
Unique to this archive, each story can be rated collectively!
Most fiction websites allow users to 'upvote' or 'like' fictions, even fewer allow 'dislike.'
Why not try something new?
Part of the starring system is that each vote is tallied and averaged to give a composite rating - the more people that like the fiction, the more stable the rating!
This is a bit of a new concept, so we will have to see where it goes.
What are the Content Ratings?
FiMFiction only allows defining three different content ratings: Everyone, Teen, and Mature.
At first, this seemed 'good enough' to me, but as I recall the various fics I've read, I realized that there is a significant gap that is missing.
For instance, Fallout:Equestria is most certainly not in the same category as porn, and you shouldn't have to see porn to find others like it.
Therefore, even though I keep the ratings to match FiMFiction's archived away, I have introduced three additional rating tags to bridge the gap.
(Plus one automatic rating tag to assist)
Without further ado, here are my adjusted ratings defined:
- Everyone
- No Swearing, Sexual references, Cartoon Violence.
- Teen
- Light swears ok, but nothing explict, Light sexual references, Some Blood Allowed.
- Young Adult
- Bad swearwords allowed, intimate non-clop allowed, May have Graphic Violence.
- Adult
- Fiction with explicit/mature references or an actual story with cloppy content.
- Clop
- Explicit Clop. The only purpose or goal of the fiction is porn.
- Mature
- FiMFiction Default tag.
*Fics marked 'Mature' simply haven't been re-categorized. - Dubious
- This is an automatic flag: If a fiction was not rated mature, but contains 'bad' words.
(Roughly Equivalent to 'Young Adult', but not reviewed)
Many fics are going to be recategorized from 'Teen' to 'Young Adult' simply because of a 'very bad word' or two, but others because of intimate and/or suggestive romantic relations.
Even though most of the 'Dubious' fics get categorized as 'Young Adult', please don't confuse the tag as being only profanity.
Bad words are just simply the easiest thing to search for.
As of writing, there are nearly 23,000 Mature Fics and 66,000+ Teen Fics.
I do not have the time to review all of them to assign appropriate tags, but will make an effort to categorize most.
If you find a fic that you think should have its rating adjusted, please let me know! I can't do it all on my own.
On the story pages (while logged in), you can submit a revision post.
(even edit your previously submitted request, if you want)
What is OPDS?
OPDS stands for "Open Publication Distribution System," which is a fancy way of saying it's a special format for sharing books.
If you have an OPDS-compatible eReader or app, you can browse fimfetch directly!
https://fimfetch.net/opds
If you want to enable viewing mature fictions, add the mature flag to the url like this:
https://fimfetch.net/opds?mature
Also, if you have a user login, you can access your bookshelves and default search options (including mature preferences) using your user key!
You're not logged in right now, but if you were, you'd be able to see your user key here or in your library.
When using a personal key to access the service, all searches are filtered using your personal search defaults, and any fictions downloaded are added to your private mobile library.
Don't share this link with anyone you don't trust, and likewise don't use links from other people you don't trust.
Tested with a number of android eReaders, but there's a chance that something might not work right. Please feel free to contact me about it!
FBReader:
More about Download Formats
Fimfetch generates multiple formats for your reading pleasure, including text files and original html for oldschool colectors
in addition to epub and mobi for mobile readers and a tidied-up html for cached viewing.
One key feature I knew for sure I wanted in this project was to automatically generate and have available for download mobi files,
which is the file format that Kindle E-Readers use.
E-Ink Readers are awesome, by the way.
My personal favorite feature of the content generators I wrote, however, are the Epub files before the mobi are generated.
I have worked to iron out xml syntax errors and formatting tags in order to allow fics to be read on stringy ereaders (I'm looking at you, Apple!),
have changed how the title page works vs fimfiction's format including putting the title, author, rating tags, wordcount, and description on the title page,
and have also added a bit of fancy magic that embeds externally linked images directly into the file!
Now you don't need your reader to be connected to the internet to enjoy graphics!
Archive Stats
253,239 Deleted Stories Indexed
382,520 Stories From FimFiction.net
44,963 Stories From FanFiction.net
2,287 Stories From ArchiveOfOurOwn.org
147,545 Stories marked as complete
122,597 FimFiction.net Stories with over 75% approval
15,419 Stories with more dislikes than likes
163,447 Teen rated stories
163,024 Everyone rated stories
73,133 Mature rated stories
11,979 Dubious rated stories
9,670 Clop rated stories
8,137 Adult rated stories
381 Young Adult rated stories
91,989 Adventure tagged stories
84,883 Romance tagged stories
76,634 Comedy tagged stories
76,315 Slice of Life tagged stories
65,043 Dark tagged stories
47,013 Sex tagged stories
44,920 Sad tagged stories
39,807 Gore tagged stories
38,763 Random tagged stories
27,243 Tragedy tagged stories
23,322 Alternate Universe tagged stories
22,746 Drama tagged stories
20,109 Human tagged stories
15,638 Violence tagged stories
15,398 Crossover tagged stories
14,671 Profanity tagged stories
11,854 Death tagged stories
9,889 Mystery tagged stories
8,674 Sci-Fi tagged stories
7,183 Thriller tagged stories
6,444 Horror tagged stories
5,217 Anthro tagged stories
2,646 Self Harm tagged stories
2,631 Equestria Girls tagged stories
950 2nd Person tagged stories
1,290,778 Chapters Indexed
3,782,949,059 Combined Words
To read all of these stories, it would take you:
49 Years, 4 Months, 7 Days
7,568 Fic-Of-The-Day Eligible Stories (3455 Used)
267,259,918 Combined Words
To read all of these stories, it would take you:
3 Years, 5 Months, 24 Days
Fiction Data Cached on Server:
4,471,730 files
18.1 GB of Plain Text
96 GB of HTML
36.6 GB of EPub
76.2 GB of Kindle MOBI
92.7 GB of Image Thumbnails
41.7 GB of Other Data Files
361.3 GB Total
I love numbers, don't you?
Time to read numbers are based on an average reading speed of 250 words per minute, and 14 hours per day.
(need to sleep sometime)
Image Credits
Donations / Support
One of the problems with running a website - especially a complex website like this one - is that they're not free.
FiMFetch costs on average about $60 a month to maintain both the primary and backup servers, and is only that cheap because of the generosity of Sour_Sweet.
I have considered putting advertisements on the site, but I do not want to rely on ads to keep this site running.
I personally despise seeing ads when I'm not actually shopping, and I imagine you won't want to see random google or amazon ads while trying to read about the latest sizzling ship, cutesy slice of life, epic adventure, or any other fic you're into.
I can't well keep doing this all on my own. With a little help, we can keep this ad-free and bustling with our favorite pastel technicolor equines!
I have a Patreon!
- Have your name added in this section!
- Plug your own website!
- Choose a theme for the site!
- Influence new additions and features!
Ongoing Supporters:
- Sour_Sweet
- m16
- (Anonymous)
- Araiya
- Currot
- m_a_whyson
- Facinus
- Aurora Star
- Wireball
- (Anonymous)
- randomfastreader
- Dog Wizard
- (Anonymous)
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- Phoen1x
More help from:
- byte[]
- (Anonymous)
- Andrew Fournier
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- GameWiz
- Marc Vaarties
- Marc von Gabain
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- Yinzer
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