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AO3: Mark For Later, Subscribe, Download from work lists

What it does: Adds buttons for “Mark for Later”, “Subscribe” and “Download” to work blurbs while you’re browsing

Found at: GreasyFork by escctrl

It’s late, you’re browsing through your favorite tags for a short bedtime story, yet all you find are amazing-sounding epics. Mark for Later, right? Or you stumble upon a WIP that you want to read once it's completed, and want to subscribe. Or you're going through your bookmarks to download them for safekeeping.

Well, except you always have to open the work to click those buttons… Annoying.

Install ⇒ AO3: Mark For Later, Subscribe, Download from work lists

Now you have handy buttons right there in the work blurb, and can still choose which file format you want for downloading.

It doesn't know which works you've already marked for later or subscribed to, but if you're on your Marked For Later page, you'll have a "Mark as Read" button instead to quickly remove items again.

[ If this seems familiar, you're remembering correctly: this blog featured a script to add the "Mark for Later" button before. Unfortunately it and similar other scripts have stopped working after AO3 made some code changes in September 2025. You can use this as a replacement. As a bonus, unlike the predecessors, this script doesn't jump to the top of the page after you clicked a button. ]

If you use and enjoy this userscript, also consider giving its author some feedback!

#ao3 userscript #browsing & filtering

AO3 userscript: Only show primary pairing (automatically, no config needed!)

This userscript automatically hides fics where the primary pairing is not the first listed tag.

Neeve's script does the same thing, except it needed to be manually edited to make it work. I made a few edits to make it automatic if you are on a ship tag page, no code editing needed.

[INSTALL HERE] (Requires Tampermonkey or any other userscript manager)

Other features (needs manual configuration):

Add more than one preferred pairing

Show works where pairings are in the first X number of tags

On a character tag page, automatically show works that have the character in the first five tags (experimental)

Add more than one preferred character

Show works where characters are in the first X number of tags

Happy reading!

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AO3 Download Buttons

What it does: Adds a Download button to the work blurb while you’re browsing

Found at: GreasyFork by tuff via ao3commentoftheday's post

You're downloading works en masse to read offline or on an eReader, let's say as preparation for a long flight or vacation, but you always have to open the work to click the button… that's a lot of clicking around and it's easy to get lost in the tabs.

Install ⇒ ao3 download buttons

Now you have a handy Download button right there in the work blurb, and can still choose which file format you want.

If you use and enjoy this userscript, also consider giving its author some feedback!

#ao3 userscript #browsing & filtering

AO3 Rekudos Converter

What it does: When you try to leave kudos again, it automatically posts a comment instead.

Found at: Tumblr by @honestlyvan

One of the saddest things you'll see on AO3 is the message that you've hit the Kudos button before:

It's one of the reasons why hits-to-kudos ratios can be very misleading. Hits count up when the same person revisits the work over and over. But they cannot give more kudos.

For creators on AO3, even years or decades after posting something, it's beautiful to see people enjoying it enough to keep coming back to it. So... what if you could let the author know that you've just re-read the fic and still love it, but without the anxiety of figuring out what to say? What if it was still as easy as a kudo: the click of a button?

Install ⇒ AO3 Rekudos Converter

When you hit kudos on muscle memory alone, although you've already left kudos before, the script will automatically send a comment instead. You don't even have to think about it!

The messages are customizable, so you can give them your own personal (or fandom-related) touch. And you can configure several messages from which it'll pick one at random, because variety is the spice of life.

If you use and enjoy this userscript, also consider giving its author some feedback!

#ao3 userscript #reading & feedback

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AO3: Comment Formatting and Preview

What it does: Above the comment textbox, adds buttons which will insert HTML code to format text (italics, bold, underline, etc), to insert links or images, or even custom text. It also shows a preview of the comment.

Found at: GreasyFork by escctrl

Typing HTML by hand is a drag. Especially if you're just trying to get your squee on in the comments. That's something the Comment Formatting Options script addressed wonderfully, by letting you insert the HTML at the push of a button. But it hasn't been updated in years to make fixes or improvements, such as the ideas its author dusty had noted on its GreasyFork page.

Recently, a different script was published, which takes dusty's to the next level and adds several nifty features.

Install ⇒ AO3 Comment Formatting and Preview

The smaller new features are additional formatting buttons for lists and paragraphs. As before, you can highlight text within your comment and then click the button, to insert the HTML around it.

And the buttons now show reliably on Inbox messages, while replying to comments, and while editing comments.

The more noticable addition is that there's a GUI for configuration!

Go to any page that has comments, for example by opening a work, or viewing your Inbox (if you have an Ao3 account). In the top menu, there'll be a "Userscripts" option, with a "Comment Formatting Buttons" entry.

In the top section of the GUI, you can pick which of the buttons you want to see or hide, if there are some you'll never use anyways.

At the bottom, you can add your own custom buttons. Follow the step-by-step guide in the GUI. One thing to remember when you pick the icon is that this only works with Font Awesome v4 (which has a limited set of icons available), not with the new v5. So make sure to stay on the v4 page when you pick something.

When you chose an icon, copy its four-letter Unicode into the first field in the script GUI. Then it shows up on your custom button.

The other obvious new feature is that you'll have a Preview field, which'll show how the comment will look like once it's been posted.

... And as far as I can tell, it works nicely on mobile devices. \o/

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AO3: Reorder Tags with Drag & Drop

What it does: lets you reorder tags when posting a new work, by giving them a handle to drag them around

Found at: GreasyFork by escctrl

Oft-bemoaned, the order that you enter your tags is the order they stay in. Forever. Had a typo in a tag? Have fun starting over!

Install ⇒ AO3 Reorder Tags with Drag & Drop

The script works on desktop and mobile, and turns all the tags into little cards. They have a handle (the "burger menu" aka three stacked vertical lines), which you can grab with your mouse/tap and hold to drag them around into the order you like. Kinda like on tumblr XD

If tags have a red stripes background and no handle, then those were previously saved and are frozen in place. Apparently AO3 does something weird once a draft was was saved, and even this script can't resort them.

But! If you check out the info on GreasyFork, the script still tries to make the steps to remove and re-add those tags (to make them sortable as well) more convenient.

If you use and enjoy this userscript, also consider giving its author some feedback!

#ao3 userscript #posting & editing

AO3 Primary Relationships

What it does: Hides works where your chosen relationship isn't the first one tagged

Found at: tumblr by @brennansdice

Let's say you're fan of a rarepair, or even a medium-sized ship in a fandom that's just dominated by another ship. It can get tedious going through works which are tagged with yours, but only as a background thing.

First option of course is to use AO3's filters. Browse your ship's tag, and in the Sort and Filter form, enter "otp:true" in the "Search within results" field.

What remains are all works which were tagged ONLY with your relationship. But that would also hide everything where other background ships are tagged.

Based on the assumption that most creators will put the main ship as the first relationship tag on their work, a couple of scripts emerged.

Install ⇒ Ao3 Only Show Primary Pairing

This script requires some configuration by you: In the code (line#16), enter the various formats that people have tagged your desired ship. You can also enter multiple ships here!

While the script is active, any work where the first relationship tag doesn't match anything in the list you gave it, will be hidden.

Install ⇒ AO3 First Relationship Tag Filter

This script takes a different approach. There's no need to touch the code, and it will assume if you're browsing a particular relationship tag, that it should filter for works where this relationship is tagged first.

Note that you'll have to enable the script on the tag you're browsing, through a new menu item:

It tries to guess variations of the tag you're browsing (for example: A/B, B/A, A/B (Fandom), A (Fandom)/B, etc) to recognize if a work is still listing your ship first. But it will reach its limits if your fandom likes to use shipnames (like IronFrost for Tony Stark/Loki).

Both scripts don't hide the work completely. They only collapse the work blurb, and you can choose to see it anyways:

The second script also lists the first relationship tag in the collapsed blurb—you'll quickly recognize if the script hid something you want to see, and press the "Show Work" button.

Obviously, the first script requires you to create and maintain that list manually, but gives you a lot of flexibility what tags are in use in the fandom. The second is more versatile if you're fandom-hopping.

If you use and enjoy this userscript, also consider giving its author some feedback!

#ao3 userscript #browsing & filtering

AO3 Primary Relationships

What it does: Hides works where your chosen relationship isn't the first one tagged

Found at: tumblr by @brennansdice

First option of course is to use AO3's filters. Browse your ship's tag, and in the Sort and Filter form, enter "otp:true" in the "Search within results" field.

What remains are all works which were tagged ONLY with your relationship. But that would also hide everything where other background ships are tagged.

Based on the assumption that most creators will put the main ship as the first relationship tag on their work, a couple of scripts emerged.

Install ⇒ Ao3 Only Show Primary Pairing

This script requires some configuration by you: In the code (line#16), enter the various formats that people have tagged your desired ship. You can also enter multiple ships here!

While the script is active, any work where the first relationship tag doesn't match anything in the list you gave it, will be hidden.

Install ⇒ AO3 First Relationship Tag Filter

Note that you'll have to enable the script on the tag you're browsing, through a new menu item:

Both scripts don't hide the work completely. They only collapse the work blurb, and you can choose to see it anyways:

The second script also lists the first relationship tag in the collapsed blurb—you'll quickly recognize if the script hid something you want to see, and press the "Show Work" button.

If you use and enjoy this userscript, also consider giving its author some feedback!

#ao3 userscript #browsing & filtering

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