rComics
rComics is yet another script for fetching web-comics of all kinds. It is now well tested and suitable for regular use. Unlike others it's not limited to some predefined comics but can be freely configured via regular expressions. It also provides convient archiving of the fetched comics.
News
| Date | News |
|---|---|
| 2004-08-02 |
Version 0.2 released
Unfortunately I hadn't the time to add new features for three months. Albeit the script got very well tested through the time (I use it really daily and I know several others that do too). There was only one little bug concerning ends of months (all comics were fetched on the 1st of month). This is the only change but I wanted to release at last. Especially as I promote it as stable now. I guess I will start a branch with new features merging them when they prove to be stable. I'd like some feedback on wished features though. |
| 2004-04-27 | First public release |
Features
- Parallel downloads (serial are also available)
- Sets the HTTP-Referer
- Archiving
- rComics is able to chase the image through several pages
- Versatile configuration via regular expressions
Requirements
- An operating system capable of symbolic links (ie. not Windows).
- ruby (It's tested with versions 1.8.0 and later but as I don't use anything special, slightly older versions should do fine too)
Retrieving
You can download the latest version or get the bloody edge from my darcs-Mirror via:
darcs get http://repos.ularx.de/rComics
If you wonder why I've migrated from tla you might want to read my
blog-entry about it.