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Turning lines of the .json file into easily human readable files
Hello @nyuuzyou , and thanks for uploading this dataset. I know that you have been getting a lot of threats and hate, which is why as an author who has published on AO3 I wanted to let you know that I fully support you.
Anyway, I am looking for guidance on how to turn the JSON of each line of the files in the dataset into readable text
For example, pastebin d0t c0m / 5jQPRzuR (a link to a short fic) is technically readable but is just a jumble of a paragraph. How do I turn it into a nice readable searchable file, preferably markdown?
Any (helpful) input from the community would be great.
Thanks, MindlessForMinerva.
Hello,
Thank you for your words of support. I may be a little late, but I have prepared an answer to your question.
Here is a python code that can mass convert this dataset files to markdown: https://gist.github.com/nyuuzyou/b2f83669ad80a22e435728245ebcdf9f.
And also a web version for individual lines: https://ao3-converter.replit.app
Thank you. Is there any way to preserve paragraphs when using the markdown converter?
Aren't they preserved?
A few are but most are not.
"Dean nodded and pulled away from Sammy. He examined his brother carefully for any signs of pain. When none came, he breathed out a sigh of relief. He pushed the door open hard, because it was slightly mangled, and crawled out. He then turned to Sammy, and, grabbing his arm, pulled him gently from the wreckage. Some people came rushing over to them, talking about how they'd already called the cops and were they okay and Dean just tuned them out and held on tightly to Sammy, unwilling to let go of him for a moment."
becomes
"Dean nodded and pulled away from Sammy.
He examined his brother carefully for any signs of pain.
When none came, he breathed out a sigh of relief.
He pushed the door open hard, because it was slightly mangled, and crawled out.
He then turned to Sammy, and, grabbing his arm, pulled him gently from the wreckage.
Some people came rushing over to them, talking about how they'd already called the cops and were they okay and Dean just tuned them out and held on tightly to Sammy, unwilling to let go of him for a moment."
for example.
Stop stealing and take shit down
@nyuuzyou We're begging you, PLEASE delete that dataset. I'm not a hater of AI, but please don't try to take something like this from us. This community is built on the love and trust of so many creators and writers who pour their hearts out into their work. These are not like traditional academic works, you're involuntarily putting a piece of yourself into your writing, into the things you love so much. AO3 isn’t just a website for us, it's a community and we lvoe and care deeply about what we do.Please, please, PLEASE understand that this isn't just about rules. It may be okay for you, you may argue about all the technical details you knowand I respect those, but I'm asking you, PLEASE also respect our work. We've done nothing to you, I don't wish any harm on you, but please... AO3 means a lot to us, past all the tech and rules and everything. So please don't take that away. Please.
This isn’t about just what’s online or what’s publicly available. I know that you can easily bring up the argument that if it’s out there on the internet, it’s fair game. But our stories, our data—we invest so much time, energy, and emotion into these works and we do it with the hope and tears (yes, literal tears) that that wish will be respected. Please understand that this is really not just a technical issue—it’s personal. It's deeply personal to so many of us, millions of us. PLEASE think of the people and the work behind those stories and arts. So I’m asking you, please, to respect that and remove the dataset. Don't do the lawful thing, please do the right thing instead. Please. This is a community that means so much to so many of us, so please please take that dataset down. I wish I can meet you or really talk to you in some way perhaps, but this is the best thing I can do and I truly wish and hope that you'll see it. 🙏
@reyusty i do not understand why you think something here is threatening ao3 or its community? it's a backup of your work so that it may not be forgotten and so that both humans and machines may read and remember it. like pls explain because i'm genuinely curious how that threatens a community?
Hi there @hikitoxin , thank you for your question. I’m hoping it’s a genuine question, hence I’ll try my best to answer. The big issue here is consent. AO3 users choose to share their work on a very specific platform, under very specific terms. I did not and do not consent my work to be crossposted across multiple sites, nor do I want it to be read by machines. And please don’t refer to it as a backup. it’s an unauthorized copy that the creator has no control over anymore. A backup also tries to respectupdates, deletions, and corrections. A scraped copy doesn’t do any of that since it freezes the work in time and blatantly ignores someone’s rights to change or remove something.
And look, it’s well and okay for you to use works where people are giving you consent over them. Feel free to do that, but please also give a choice to the people who do not want this.
I’ll try to explain through an analogy and hopefully that also helps - It’s like you’re inviting people into your living room to read a story you’ve pinned on your wall.They’re welcome to come in, sit down, and enjoy it (and talk to you if they want) because you chose to open your door for them and set the terms.
But scraping without consent is like someone sneaking into your house, silencing the alarms, photographing everything you put up, and then pasting it on billboards across town. This could be places you never frequented before ankd it can even include places where people might mock or misuse your work.
It doesn’t matter if you or they say “I’m just trying to help people appreciate it!” Consent was still broken, and that changes everything. It’s a violation of personal boundaries. And you can argue that ‘it’s the internet, public use is fair use’ and etc, but that’s not what the community was founded on. And it’s only those who don’t understand that do this because otherwise, it indeed is a vile thing for the rest of us.
If I didn’t ask for a backup, it’s not a backup; it’s theft for me.I already have my own backups btw. I don’t want someone else deciding, without my consent, to “preserve” my work for me.
Offering an unasked-for “service” imo doesn’t make it generous, it makes it invasive if it strips me of control over where, how, and by whom my work is accessed. You know? Imo, consent isn’t optional because intent is supposedly ‘good’, which btw I don’t really see that’s the case here. Good intentions are also correlated with listening to the tears of millions of people. It may be just data for you, it was something very personal for us. Hope that helps.
Never so sure how people can be so grossly heartless to genuine and (imo) politely worded (to the best of my ability) requests.
But I’d very much rather not, @therapper. Try asking someone in your family instead, should you be so fortunate to have one, rather than be a perverted monster online and harass people pleading to the point of genuine hurt/tears. Thank you.