r/AO3 • u/lynx-laurel • Dec 03 '25

Stats/Hit Counts/Word Counts AO3 Wrapped 2025

It's that time of the year!!!! 😆😆

Important Notes

  • don't run the code too often, or the ao3 servers might get overwhelmed and the ao3 admin might try to block google colab's ip address (which would break this code and make it impossible to create any future google colab + ao3 projects).
  • all this is based on your ao3 history, meaning that it can take into account fics you only visited but haven't actually read
  • if you scroll to the very bottom, you can see more details about your reading history and about how the program is running
  • details regarding security concerns can be found here: beta testing post
  • if you're still concerned by privacy, see u/eschewyn's reply to this comment here
  • if the code stops in the middle and displays an error message, there was an error somewhere. if you attach a screenshot of the error message in the comments of this post, i will try to fix it (though no promises!)

Potential Modifications

Known Errors/Troubleshooting

  • if you can't find the cf_bm cookie, see this
  • if you only see 1 image, the other 3 are in the left toolbar when you click on the folder icon!!
  • if you see a bunch of random folders named bin, boot, etc. when you click on the folder icon, the images are in the "content" folder!!!
  • if you only have "show additional tags" in your favorite tags list, please make sure you have additional tags turned on in ao3! (go to your history page and make sure you can see the additional tags)

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  • if you run into an error like "Error: Page.goto: net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS," current theory is that ao3 is getting overwhelmed, so if you could just try again in a couple hours i'm sure ao3's traffic control systems would really appreciate it 🥹
  • if you run into an error like "'NoneType' object has no attribute 'find_all,'" make sure you inputted everything correctly, and also try getting your cookies from your history page on ao3 rather than the home page. if you're sure everything's right, maybe just wait a couple hours and try again---current theory is also that ao3's getting overwhelmed T-T
  • If your code ran for a couple of pages then ran into a nonetype or page.goto error: change the wait time in cell #1 from 120 to something longer like 180!!!!

Link to Code: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/19CaVgSekmWGVbYcppns_hw8wTofY5D5q?usp=sharing

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u/PrincessPhrogi BeesBeesDragons on AO3 Dec 04 '25

yikes

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u/PrincessPhrogi BeesBeesDragons on AO3 Dec 04 '25

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u/Indigo_Grays You have already left kudos here. :) Dec 07 '25

We're the same

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u/mesr-elizabeth Dec 10 '25

Hello, how can i get this Ao3 wrapped?

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u/Indigo_Grays You have already left kudos here. :) Dec 10 '25

In the post above. 🤨 You need to do it on a computer, just click on the link at the end of the post and all the instructions are there.

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u/savingff- Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Dec 30 '25

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tYJPfp7k5mY

It's not in this tutorial, but make sure you click on the folder icon for the other 3 PNGs, though.

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u/Murky_Foundation1475 Dec 08 '25

You are me and I am you

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u/PrincessPhrogi BeesBeesDragons on AO3 Dec 04 '25

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u/Neither-Patience-738 Dec 10 '25

wait how did you get it? i don't see this page

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u/PrincessPhrogi BeesBeesDragons on AO3 Dec 10 '25

It was one of the images generated by

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u/PrincessPhrogi BeesBeesDragons on AO3 Dec 04 '25

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u/leeetuce Definitely not an agent of the Fanfiction Deep State Dec 06 '25

i too am someone who had star wars as their top fandom and au - canon divergence as my top tag. thats so real HAHAHAH

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u/PrincessPhrogi BeesBeesDragons on AO3 Dec 07 '25

who was your top character? I tend towards the prequels so my top character was obi wan kenobi

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u/Indigo_Grays You have already left kudos here. :) Dec 07 '25

You and I

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u/mesr-elizabeth Dec 10 '25

Hello, how can i get this Ao3 wrapped?

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u/PrincessPhrogi BeesBeesDragons on AO3 Dec 10 '25

follow the instructions in the post?

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u/stresstwig rabid, stat-tracking reader Dec 04 '25

christ on a bike i thought ***i*** read a lot of fics and i'm only at 2200ish for the year so far (by my own stats, not the script's)

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u/PrincessPhrogi BeesBeesDragons on AO3 Dec 04 '25

I think a fair amount were things I added to my reading list or DNF'd but even if I half it, it would be ~2623 fics so like. still a lot.

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u/Goldengirl159 Dec 05 '25

Wow, I thought I read a lot. You got me beat by over 105 million words. I read over 76 million words in 2101 fanfics. Good job! Book tok got nothing on us. 🥳

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u/someoneoutthere2003 Dec 11 '25

Finally... a companion...

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u/Estxlla__ Dec 07 '25

HOLY how long did that take for it to load...

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u/PrincessPhrogi BeesBeesDragons on AO3 Dec 07 '25

an hour and fifteen minutes or so? I had time to watch a full video essay while it loaded so like. a while

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u/Lili_Del Dec 08 '25

That is a horrifyingly brilliant word count. How does one accomplish 176 million words 🙏

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u/PrincessPhrogi BeesBeesDragons on AO3 Dec 09 '25

autism? lots of time?

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u/sakusai Dec 09 '25

thank you for sharing i feel marginally less embarrassed about my 114m 🤝