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FanFiction.Net
A veteran fanfiction site whose collections date from the era before AO3. There is no API and the site sits behind Cloudflare, so it is presented as a link to its search form. Worth checking for older fan works from that earlier period. Flagged as degraded: you may need to pass a verification challenge to get in.
No programmatic check, opens the archive’s own search.
Why it’s useful & how it works
FanFiction.Net holds a deep back-catalogue of fan fiction stretching back to its founding in 1998, predating AO3 by a decade, and remains significant for older works in major fandoms such as Harry Potter, Naruto, and anime series. It covers fan fiction, poetry, and screenplays across books, games, TV, and anime categories. There is no API and the site sits behind Cloudflare verification, so Echo links you to its search form and you run your search there.
What’s inside
FanFiction.Net hosts millions of stories across dozens of languages and more than 12 million registered accounts, built up over more than 25 years of continuous operation. The anime and manga section alone contains hundreds of thousands of individual works.
What we measured
Our own probes, not the archive’s own claims. Re-run periodically; every reading below is dated.
Reachability
- Direct request
- Cloudflare challenge HTTP 403 266 ms (just a moment)
- Through a datacenter proxy
- Cloudflare challenge HTTP 403 1.5 s (just a moment)
Benchmark coverage
Found 0 of 2 test items (0%) in the Niche text cluster. Median response 66 ms.
By how well known the item is: 0/1 well-known, 0/1 mid .
Reachability measured 2026-08-22. Benchmark run 2026-08-22.
Access
May require solving a captcha before it responds.