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« on: September 13, 2010, 05:47:59 PM » |
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Hi All
Today I have spent some time looking for a tool which would allow me to download all xkcd episodes and… found nothing suitable (lot of wget related scripts).
So I have decided to quickly code small downloading tool for such purpose. Here it is attached.
Note that it requires newest .NET framework.
For now it downloads all episodes from 1st to 792nd. If someone likes it I may provide basic parameters support.
P.S. It also writes strips titles into descript.ion file (usable in Total Commander's comments view).
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 xkcd.zip (24.17 KB - downloaded 106 times.)
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Надо было учиться, а не камни в школу бросать...-- f0dder is my personal hero 
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mouser
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« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2010, 06:02:31 PM » |
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Cool! Maybe someone wants to make a MultiPhotoQuotes screensaver image pack for it? |
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CWuestefeld
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« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2010, 12:04:00 PM » |
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That's cool. I've got a suggestion:
Store the image's ALT text into file as well. Sometimes this is as funny as the comic itself.
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fenixproductions
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« Reply #3 on: September 14, 2010, 01:58:29 PM » |
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Store the image's ALT text into file as well. Sometimes this is as funny as the comic itself.
Both texts (title and alt) are stored inside descript.ion file but I am working on writing it within image. Unfortunately, it will take time I suffer the lack of. |
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Надо было учиться, а не камни в школу бросать...-- f0dder is my personal hero
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f0dder
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« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2010, 10:15:21 AM » |
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Alt text is definitely important, a lot of the strips get their main comic value from it If you go about modifying the image, you should probably put source URL ( http://xkcd.com/xxxx, not the http://imgs.xkcd.com one) there as well. |
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 - carpe noctem |
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Curt
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« Reply #6 on: September 16, 2010, 05:53:22 AM » |
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Your xkcd downloader works really well :-) I was able to import>Copy the xkcd/app directory's images into Comical without any problems. Comical will itself "merely" search for and download updates to collections, not download entire collections.  |
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Remember what you said, because in a day or two, I'll have a witty and blistering retort! You'll be devastated THEN!
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Tuxman
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« Reply #7 on: September 16, 2010, 08:23:06 PM » |
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found nothing suitable (lot of wget related scripts). As some of us here  also have wget.exe, maybe you could provide some of those wget-related scripts, so we could mash up something on our own? |
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Tuxman
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« Reply #9 on: September 18, 2010, 07:48:27 AM » |
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Depends on what software you already have.  |
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I bet when Cheetahs race and one of them cheats, the other one goes "Man, you're such a Cheetah!" and they laugh & eat a zebra or whatever. - @VeryGrumpyCat |
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