Exchange Apps

[karanguni]

I code apps for fandom exchanges because the AO3 interface is atrocious.

Automagic App Generator

Exchanges can generate their own apps automatically via https://autoao3app.fandom.tools.

If you want to search for requests across all exchanges, use https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/everything.

Fun stats from the aggregated database: overall numbers and top 100 fandoms by requests

Bugs?

Please leave a comment here, stating which app/exchange, what the bug is, and steps I can take to reproduce it. It helps if you leave me your browser type, but I don't necessarily need it. Thanks! :)

Requests

If your exchange operates in a way that needs more features in the app, please leave a request here detailing what that might mean!

I currently only code standalone apps for Yuletide. If you are a mod who needs non-app code, feel free to DM me here or on Discord.

Caveats

Apologies in advance if I am slow in responding: I generally am not fandom active except around the Yuletide season. Thanks for understanding!

Known Issues

Nothing major at the moment.

---

Announcements

Due to AO3 rate limiting changes as of 24 Feb 2025, scraping might be unsuccessful more often, but should still work eventually.

Comments

[westiec]

Hi! Non-urgent feature suggestion — would it be possible to add either a filter or sort by # of tags used in a request? Looking through big exchanges with lots of tags (cough*battleship*cough) and it would be nice to be able to easily find people requesting their One Very Favorite Kink for gifting purposes.

As always, thank you SO much for building and maintaining the app; it really does make life better. <3

[karanguni]

Hi! Do you mean more than what's available in the Search All Requests page? Or do you mean "find the number of times someone has requested X"...?

[shadaras]

For Battleship, some people used Creator's Choice of Fandom to be like "I want absolutely anything for this one freeform tag (e.g., Watersports)" and other people were like "why yes I will put hundreds of tags in my optional tags section! go wild! :D" and it'd be cool to be able to sort the "Search All Requests" page by Number of Freeform/Optional Tags Requested (Ascending) to find the people who are just so into this one freeform that they're down for anything including it.

[karanguni]

Got it! I'll have a think on this one but I'll try to make it happen for battleship even if I can't figure out a way to shim it into the app design right away

[westiec]

Yes, what Shadaras said! Thank you!