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October 31, 2011 09:25
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A small script to store XKCD comics in PDF format
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| import sys, urllib2,json | |
| Base = 'http://xkcd.com/' | |
| Tail = 'info.0.json' | |
| def main(): | |
| n = int(sys.argv[1]) | |
| k = int(sys.argv[2]) | |
| out = open("out3.html","w") | |
| out.write("<html><body>\n") | |
| for i in range(n,k+1): | |
| url = '%s%d/%s' % (Base, i, Tail) | |
| print url | |
| f = urllib2.urlopen(url) | |
| a = f.readline() | |
| f.close() | |
| d = json.loads(a) | |
| out.write("<hr/>\n") | |
| out.write(d['title'] + "<br/>\n") | |
| out.write("<img src=\"%d.%s\"/> <br/>\n"%(i,d['img'][-3:])) | |
| out.write(d['alt'].replace("\n","<br/>") + "</br>\n") | |
| u = urllib2.urlopen(d['img']) | |
| localFile = open('%d.%s'%(i,d['img'][-3:]), 'wb') | |
| localFile.write(u.read()) | |
| localFile.close() | |
| out.flush() | |
| out.write("</body></html>\n"); | |
| out.close() | |
| if __name__ == '__main__': | |
| main() |
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