If you ask nicely, the admin might just give you a database dump.
this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2026
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If your interest is in bulk download of erotic stories and you don't specifically care about that forum (which I assume is the case, if you just want to dump the entire thing)
like, you're looking for a training corpus to fine-tune an LLM to generate material along those lines or something in that neighborhood
I suspect that there are considerably-more-substantial archives than "hundreds".
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It looks like ftp.asstr.org is still running an anonymous-access public FTP server. They'll have years of archives from the relevant text erotica Usenet groups. You won't need to screen-scrape that; just use any client that can recursively download from an FTP server.
I'm trying to download all fics from that specific forum. Sorry I wasn't clear.