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Dilbert download all comics
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from bs4 import BeautifulSoup | |
import requests | |
import shutil | |
import os | |
def download_comic(year, month, day): | |
url = f'http://dilbert.com/strip/{year}-{month:02}-{day:02}' | |
print(f'Looking {url}') | |
try: | |
response = requests.get(url) | |
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, "html.parser") | |
comic_title = soup.find_all("a", class_="comic-title-link") | |
# If you try to access an URL that doesn't exist it will redirect to the main page, so url will be different to the comic-title-link | |
if comic_title[0]["href"] == url: | |
print(f'Downloading {year}-{month:02}-{day:02}') | |
images = soup.find_all("img", class_="img-responsive img-comic") | |
# Get the extension | |
extension = requests.get(images[0]["src"]).headers['content-type'].split('/')[-1] | |
response = requests.get(images[0]["src"], stream=True) | |
with open("comics/" + str(f'{year}-{month:02}-{day:02}_dilbert.{extension}'), 'wb') as f: | |
shutil.copyfileobj(response.raw, f) | |
# Sometimes it happens | |
except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: | |
print("Error. Trying again...") | |
download_comic(year, month, day) | |
ENDING_YEAR = 2017 | |
year = 1991 | |
month = 6 | |
day = 21 | |
if not os.path.exists("comics/"): | |
os.makedirs("comics/") | |
while year != ENDING_YEAR: | |
if month > 12: | |
year += 1 | |
month = 1 | |
if day > 31: | |
month += 1 | |
day = 1 | |
download_comic(year, month, day) | |
day += 1 |
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