Simple Google Docs -> AO3 posting script!
It’s been a little while since I saw one of these posts making the rounds and when I tried to look one up to share it had broken links, so I figured I’d make a quick one myself because there’s no such thing as getting the word out on this too much!
POSTING FIC TO AO3 AND TUMBLR CAN BE FORMATTING HELL IF YOU’RE TRYING TO DO IT MANUALLY. But the lovely people of AO3 put this AO3 posting script (LINK TO GDOC HERE!) in their ‘Unofficial Browser Tools’ section of their FAQ:
It’s pretty straight-forward. Follow the instructions in the FAQ, which are also numbered at the top of the sample script in the original doc you make the copy of. Once it’s a file copied to your own Google Docs you can open and edit it, pasting in whatever you wish to post to AO3. Then you just click the ‘Post to AO3′ (pictured below) menu, and the ‘ prepare for pasting into the HTML editor’ option under that, and BAM, instant HTML to post on AO3, or even just on Tumblr!
Now if you’re used to using the Rich Text editors make sure you’re switched over to the HTML ones to upload your shiny new HTML versions of your fic!
You can switch back to Rich Text to give it a look-over and make sure everything looks the way it should, or add in anything extra before posting!
I hope this was easy enough to follow! I am, admittedly, not the best at explaining things but an attempt was made. I recently came across a few friends who didn’t know this existed so I figured a friendly reminder might help a few others as well!
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