download_dilbert.py

import urllib2
import datetime
import os.path
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
dilbert_dir = 'c:\\work\\toons\\dilbert\\'


year=2007
start_date=datetime.date(year,1,1)
one_day = datetime.timedelta(days=1)
current_date = start_date
base_url = r'http://www.dilbert.com/fast/'

while(current_date.year==year and current_date <= datetime.date.today()):
    dtfmt=current_date.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
    contents=urllib2.urlopen(base_url + dtfmt + '/').read()
    soup=BeautifulSoup(contents)
    img_loc=soup.findAll('img')[-1]['src']
    print 'downloading ', img_loc, ' as ', dtfmt, '.gif'
    img=urllib2.urlopen('http://www.dilbert.com/' + img_loc).read()
    f=open(os.path.join(dilbert_dir,dtfmt+'.gif'),'wb')
    f.write(img)
    f.close()
    current_date= current_date + one_day