Download all the User Friendly comics!

userfriendly.sh

#!/bin/bash

#forked to download from archive.org

years="1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015"
months1="01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12"
months2="11 12"
n=1

for y in $years
do
        if [ $y = "1997" ]; then
                months=$months2
        else
                months=$months1
        fi

        for m in $months
        do
                d=1
                while [ $d -lt 31 ];
                do
                        rd=""
                        if [ $d -lt 10 ]; then
                                rd="0$d"
                        else
                                rd="$d"
                        fi

                        echo -ne Searching number $n\\r

                        url="https://web.archive.org/web/http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=${y}${m}${rd}"
                        wget $url -O tmp.html
                                image1=`cat tmp.html | grep -o "http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/.\+\.gif"`
                                image="https://web.archive.org/web/$image1"
                                if [ "$image1" != "" ]; then
                                        if [ ! -f "${n}.png" ]; then
                                                echo -ne Downloading number $n\\r
                                                wget $image -O "${n}.gif"
#                                               convert -verbose -coalesce "${n}.gif" "${n}.png"

                                                if [ -f tmp.html ]; then
                                                        rm tmp.html
                                                fi
#                                               rm *.gif
                                        fi

                                        let "n++"
                                fi
                        let "d++"
                done
        done
done

Thanks for forking and setting this up, works like a charm!

Thanks for forking and setting this up, works like a charm!

My pleasure, and thank you for the feedback.