Post #1966311

2026-05-04 15:24 UTC

Hey smart critters Im a bit lost Ive been tasked with archiving a bunch of fanfics from ao3 (about 2500), now I got them all downloaded (they are. HTML files to keep formatting, by request) but for various reasons (friend who asked me is not good at tech), I want to be able to search through them by title and/or tag, in an easy way that is offline. What direction could I go to do that? Ive been stuck on a pseudo recreation of the site but that would require an online component either for the database or the JavaScript

Replies (4)

@FandaSin@social.linux.pizza 2026-05-04 15:30

@drakocxjo@dragonchat.org I would probably use something similar to "SearchMyFiles" (https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/search_my_files.html). But I'm lazy and I'm kinda skilled at IT, so it might not be the best way.

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@Binder@petrous.vislae.town 2026-05-04 15:33

@drakocxjo@dragonchat.org It's likely to be excessive for your needs but the cool kids who want to index html tend to use Lucene in one form or another: https://lucene.apache.org

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@Rhew@gulp.cafe 2026-05-04 17:00

@drakocxjo@dragonchat.org Perhaps HTML to markdown?

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@pandro@fedi.imowl.net 2026-05-04 17:55

@drakocxjo@dragonchat.org If you don't want any extra program you could just pack title + tags into the file name and search by that. Another incredibly low-tech offline version would be creating an index, like a txt with : on each line and letting them use ctrl+F to find what they want. Similar for each tag. Not really super user-friendly though but it'd be useable for non-tech ppl Just gets annoying when you need to add/remove/update the indices.

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