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Looking into downloading a webcomic (programming.dev)
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There is a webcomic called strong female protagonist that i want to persevere(in case the website is ever lost) but not sure how.

The image you see above is not a webpage of the site but rather a drop-down like menu. There is a web crawler called WFDownloader(that i am using the window's exe file inside bottles)that can grab images and can follow links, grab images "N" number of pages down but since this a drop-down menu i am not sure it will work

There also the issue of organizing the images. WFDownloader doesn't have options for organizing.

What i am thinking about, is somehow translating the html for the drop-down menu into separate xml file based on issues/titles, run a script to download the images, have each image named after its own hyperlink and have each issue in its own folder. Later on i can create a stitch-up version of the each issues.

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[-] harmbugler@piefed.social 10 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

https://archive.org/details/Strong-Female-Protagonist-webcomic-online

You can download it as a 320MB zip, but maybe best to torrent it and seed for others.

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 11 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

The Internet Archive is a treasure.

It's going to hurt when they annoy the wrong person and get sued out of existance.

[-] cactus_head@programming.dev 1 points 16 hours ago

Thanks you ❤️, but my country doesn't allow any outgoing connections

[-] Harmonics041@feddit.uk 1 points 6 hours ago

What country is this if you are safe to say? I haven't heard of anything like that before

[-] LaSirena@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

If you're just after the comics themselves, then look at dosage. It looks to support this web comic.

https://github.com/webcomics/dosage/

[-] gyrfalcon@beehaw.org 1 points 15 hours ago

Seems like you have a good alternative that doesn't require a script, but for tasks like this I like to recommend the book Automate the Boring Stuff with Python. It's free to read online, and if I recall correctly has essentially exactly this task as one of the exercises.

[-] shrek_is_love@lemmy.ml 6 points 23 hours ago

If you view the source of the homepage, you'll see some HTML that starts with this:

<div class="archive-dropdown-wrap">
    <ul class="archive-dropdown">                       
        <li><span class="chapter-label">Issue 1</span><ul><li><a href="https://strongfemaleprotagonist.com/issue-1/page-0/">Cover

That's the HTML for the drop-down. Although if I were you, I'd look into taking advantage of WordPress' JSON API, since that website uses WordPress.

For example, here's a list of the images uploaded to the site in JSON format: https://strongfemaleprotagonist.com/wp-json/wp/v2/media?per_page=100&page=1 (Limited to 100 entries per page)

[-] cactus_head@programming.dev 3 points 17 hours ago

I can see the url for each image when opening when the json link(source_url:) and each image is labeled in the correct order as far as i can see but how do i grab the urls?

Maybe look into awk language compile a list of urls than pass them through curl?

[-] shrek_is_love@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 hours ago

jq is sort of like awk but specifically meant for JSON so it should be a lot easier.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 23 hours ago

i'm presuming that you've tried something like curl or wget wrapped in a for loop to iterate through each page to do this and that it didn't work somehow.

[-] ergonomic_importer@piefed.ca -1 points 22 hours ago

robots.txt would probably put a stop to that

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 19 hours ago

i was asking op if they used a manual approach, which wouldn't be impacted by something like robots.txt

[-] cactus_head@programming.dev 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Haven't used curl or wget,have yet to start using command-line(outside of solving some linux issue or organizing family photos) but open to learning.

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