xkcd-dl

Download ALL xkcd's which have been uploaded till date. Ever!

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XKCD-Archiver-cli

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xkcd-dl is inspired by an awesome package called youtube-dl https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/ written by Daniel Bolton(Much respect!)

How about you get to download all of the xkcd which have been uploaded till date? This does just that!

Now I don't know about you, but I just love reading xkcd's! I thought why not create something like youtube-dl but for downloading xkcd's!

And hence xkcd-dl

Feautures

  • Can download all the xkcd's uploaded till date(1603 as I am writing this!).
  • Download individual xkcd's and store them
  • Download the latest issue xkcd
  • No duplicacy in your XKCD database.
  • Stores each xckd in a seperate file named as the title of the xkcd at your home directory
  • Writes a description.txt for each xkcd. Storing meta-data like
    • date-publised
    • url value
    • a small description of that xkcd
  • written in python.

Installation

Option 1: installing through pip

pypi package link

$ pip install xkcd-dl

For python2.*. Use this instead python3 -m pip install xkcd-dl

If you are behind a proxy

$ pip --proxy [username:password@]domain_name:port install xkcd-dl

Option 2: installing from source

$ git clone https://github.com/prodicus/xkcd-dl.git
$ cd xkcd-dl/
$ python setup.py install

Demo

Usage

Each Comic is stored in it's own individual folder with a description.txt placed in it. It contains meta-data like

  • img-link
  • title
  • date-pulblished

Here's a little example for the same

xkcd_archive Structure

Usage

When running for the first time, do a xkcd-dl --update-db

$ xkcd-dl --update-db
XKCD link database updated
Stored it in 'xkcd_dict.json'. You can start downloading your XKCD's!
Run 'xkcd-dl --help' for more options
$

--download-latest

This downloads the last uploaded xkcd comic and stores under the home directory of the user with a brief description

$ xkcd-dl --download-latest
Downloading xkcd from 'http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/flashlights.png' and storing it under '/home/tasdik/xkcd_archive/1603'
$

If it has been downloaded, will not do anything

--download=XKCDNUMBER

Downloads the particular XKCDNUMBER(given that it exists and has not been downloaded already) and stores it in the home directory

$ xkcd-dl --download=143
Downloading xkcd from 'http://xkcd.com/143/' and storing it under '/home/tasdik/xkcd_archive/143'
$ xkcd-dl --download=1603
Downloading xkcd from 'http://xkcd.com/1603/' and storing it under '/home/tasdik/xkcd_archive/1603'
xkcd  number '1603' has already been downloaded!
$

--download-all

As the name suggests, will download all the xkcd's uploaded till date and store them under the home directory of the user.

$ xkcd-dl --download-all
Downloading all xkcd's Till date!!
Downloading xkcd from 'http://xkcd.com/1466' and storing it under '/home/tasdik/xkcd_archive/1466'
Downloading xkcd from 'http://xkcd.com/381' and storing it under '/home/tasdik/xkcd_archive/381'
Downloading xkcd from 'http://xkcd.com/198' and storing it under '/home/tasdik/xkcd_archive/198'
Downloading xkcd from 'http://xkcd.com/512' and storing it under '/home/tasdik/xkcd_archive/512'
Downloading xkcd from 'http://xkcd.com/842' and storing it under '/home/tasdik/xkcd_archive/842'
Downloading xkcd from 'http://xkcd.com/920' and storing it under '/home/tasdik/xkcd_archive/920'
....
....

Help menu:

$ xkcd-dl --help
Run `xkcd-dl --update-db` if running for the first time.

Usage:
  xkcd-dl --update-db
  xkcd-dl --download-latest
  xkcd-dl --download=XKCDNUMBER
  xkcd-dl --download-all
  xkcd-dl --version
  xkcd-dl (-h | --help)
Options:
  --update-db   Updates dictionary which stores all xkcd"s till date
  -h --help     Show this screen
  -v --version  Show version 
$

To-do

  • [x] add xkcd-dl --download-latest
  • [x] add xkcd-dl --download=XKCDNUMBER
  • [x] add xkcd-dl --download-all
  • [ ] add xkcd-dl --start=XKCDNUMBER --end=XKCDNUMBER [--path=/path/to/directory]
  • [ ] Remove redundant code in download_xkcd_number(), download_latest() and download_all()
  • [ ] Adding support to open a particular xkcd at the CLI itself. (Thinking of using img2txt for that)

Contributing

Feel free to contribute

  1. Fork it.
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-awesome-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added <xyz> feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-awesome-feature)
  5. Create new Pull Request

Bugs

Please report the bugs at the issue tracker

License :

MIT License http://prodicus.mit-license.org/ © Tasdik Rahman

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