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fenixproductions:
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).

mouser:
Cool!
Maybe someone wants to make a MultiPhotoQuotes screensaver image pack for it?

CWuestefeld:
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.

fenixproductions:
Store the image's ALT text into file as well. Sometimes this is as funny as the comic itself.
-CWuestefeld (September 14, 2010, 12:04 PM)
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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.

"Work in progress..."

f0dder:
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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