# Install fanficfare with Homebrew, Nix, zypper Download fanfiction and original stories as e-books. Version 4.60.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-08-02. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#fanficfare. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:fanficfare ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install fanficfare ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#fanficfare ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/fa/fanficfare/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install fanficfare ``` Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: fanficfare from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:fanficfare - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Version:** 4.60.0 - **Source summary:** Download fanfiction and original stories as e-books - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Last updated:** 2026-08-02T15:09:43Z - **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00 ## Executables - fanficfare (alias) ## Install behavior - Bottle: not available ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-08-03 - Package-manager version: 4.60.0 ## Project history and usage FanFicFare is a Python command-line tool and calibre plugin for downloading fanfiction and original stories from supported websites and turning them into e-books. It can also update existing EPUB files with newly published chapters. ### Project history The project is the renamed and relocated successor to FanFictionDownLoader, also known as FFDL or fanficdownloader. Its current GitHub repository dates to 2015, while compatibility paths and documentation still preserve the earlier name. FanFicFare was distributed in CLI, calibre-plugin, and web-service forms. The maintainer shut down the legacy hosted web service in November 2019, leaving the locally run CLI and calibre plugin as the maintained delivery models. ### Adoption history The official README describes support for more than 100 story sites and a roughly monthly release cadence. The supplied package metadata records distribution through Homebrew, Nix, and openSUSE's Zypper in addition to the project's official PyPI and calibre-plugin channels. ### How it is used CLI users pass story URLs to `fanficfare`, choose an output format such as EPUB, HTML, MOBI, or text, and customize download, metadata, image, and site behavior through layered INI settings. The calibre plugin adds library integration, metadata updates, and incremental EPUB updates. ### Why package nerds care FanFicFare is notable as a long-lived, adapter-driven content downloader whose package has retained command-line compatibility and legacy configuration lookup paths across a project rename. Its combination of PyPI, calibre, and operating-system package distribution makes it useful to readers who automate e-book libraries. ### Timeline - 2015: The current FanFicFare GitHub repository was created; official documentation describes the project as the renamed successor to FanFictionDownLoader. - 2019: The legacy hosted web service shut down on November 30; the CLI and calibre plugin remained. - 2026: FanFicFare 4.59.0 was released on July 1. ### Related projects - FanFictionDownLoader was FanFicFare's earlier project name and remains visible in a backward-compatible configuration path. - calibre provides the e-book library environment used by FanFicFare's most feature-rich plugin edition. ### Sources - - - - - - source_facts.package-manager ## Security Notes No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for fanficfare. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL. ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Unix: ./personal.ini, ~/.fanficfare/personal.ini, $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fanficfare/personal.ini, ~/.fanficdownloader/personal.ini ## Credential files - Unix: ./personal.ini, ~/.fanficfare/personal.ini, $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fanficfare/personal.ini, ~/.fanficdownloader/personal.ini ## Other Package-Manager Records - Nix - fanficfare: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/fa/fanficfare/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - zypper - fanficfare - 4.60.0-1.1: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: fanficfare from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Tool for making eBooks from stories on fanfiction and other web sites | https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFare ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/fanficfare.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/fanficfare.yml) ## Sources - pkg.so package database - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph