Visually yours, Solstice and Equinox

seasons_scraper.rb

require 'rubygems'; require 'mechanize'
agent = Mechanize.new

# Tor (of sci-fi and fantasy publishing fame) has been posting these great blog posts of art reminiscent of a given season. So far they've done summer, winter and spring. Run this script to get all of the art in tidy folders on your desktop.

seasons = [
  'http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/06/picturing-summer-a-solstice-celebration',
  'http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/12/picturing-winter-a-solstice-celebration',
  'http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/03/picturing-spring-an-equinox-celebration',
  'http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/09/picturing-autumn-an-equinox-celebration'
].map {|season| agent.get season}

agent.pluggable_parser.default = Mechanize::Download

seasons.each do |page|
  images = page.parser.css('img.enlarge').map {|element|  "http://www.tor.com" + element['src']}
  images.each do |url|
    puts "Found url #{url}"
    agent.get(url).save
  end
end