Can we have a way to back up our long as hell novels?

[rajillustration]

Hey guys, I know that there are ways to download all your uploaded content from sites like Instagram, tumblr, or twitter, it would be really nice if we could do that for this site as well, because a bunch of us have quite a bit archived on here, and it can so easily get accidentally lost.

Also, I got like a 180,000+ worth of words on here that is different than my word document I wrote it in because I've gone in and edited out so many typos on tapas, and I'd love to be able to just download the whole thing.

If this already exists and I'm being a fool, just let me know.

[rajillustration]

*waving at the void *

[surenlicious]

First off all, let me say I LOVE the fact I'm not the only one writing a big ass novel. Gimme all those words baby.

Second, my arse would also love to learn if there is an option like that

[rajillustration]

Large novel writers unite!

[mrtoontastic]

Oh god, I'd love that, because I don't think my Google Drive or Dropbox can hold anymore files...

[mrtoontastic]

Large Novelist SQUAD UP

[marbl]

If you write on something like google docs, you can download the text files onto your computer and zip the file. Text files can be compressed to fairly small sizes and you can re-upload that into a cloud storage. This will save on storage space, but won't do anything about the edits made on Tapas.

Unfortunately, I don't know of a way to get your text off of Tapas automatically. The only way that I could see this actually somewhat automated is either through autohotkey scripting or a custom browser extension ):

[thecrystalrook]

you should consider your backup solution before you upload as well. Use a 3-2-1 solution if possible:

Keep 3 backups on at least 2 different mediums (SD card, CD/DVD/Blu-ray, tape etc) with 1 of them off-site.

[rajillustration]

Oh yeah, I have a backup of the original--it's just that the Tapas one is now quite different. Just what happen when you spend time rewriting posts after you upload them.

Like this is a thing on a bunch of other blog-style sites where you can just download your archive with one click. I wonder if it can be implemented on Tapas as well, because it would be really nice. And like, that's easier said than done--I don't know what's going on under the hud and so maybe it's impossible--but it would be so nice to be able to just have my archive without having to go into editing every episode, since for obvious reasons you can't just copy paste your text.

[marbl]

I found a script on Github that downloads novels in epub format, but when testing on my own novels, it doesn't return any text so still not much progress. (won't link but you can search for it)

[rajillustration]

hm, well that's probably a copyright protection thing that tapas does to make sure rando's can't download our whole novel. It'd just be nice if I could do it myself, ah well.