#guess this is what we've come to with so many people scraping the entire internet for data to exploit and profit off of without permission

[threshie]

Note here on 5/17/2024:

I had to click the "Edit" button after selecting all fics, then could scroll to the bottom to select showing fics only to archive registered members. 👍 This post was super helpful still, though, thank you!

How To Lock All of Your Fics At Once On Ao3

Someone has probably already done this but

For anyone looking to lock their works for only registered users over on Ao3 in light of the sudowrites scraping thing here is how you can lock all of your fics at once.

Log into Ao3 and go to your Profile, Works or Dashboard

At the top under you’re user name there are four buttons pick Edit Works

Second row of buttons on the right chose All and then hit Edit

Scroll down past all of your works and then keeps scrolling until you find Visibility  change it to Only Show to Registered User

(If a fic is over the tag limit you have to edit those down to make edit to the work.)

Hit Update All Works at the very bottom and you are done all of you fics should now have a little blue lock next to your user name on each fic.

Edit: As of 12/23/2022 Ao3 has updated their robots.txt file to disallow Common Crawl from scraping the Archive.