ComicBookMaker

Script to fetch webcomics, archive them and use them to create ebooks.

Longer explanation

Web crawlers are defined to retrieve comic information and store them into files. This can then be used to generated ebooks.

These webcrawlers are supposed to be easy to write with a minimal amount of boilerplate code whilst trying to keep some flexibility.

Under the hood, there is one class per webcrawler, each of them inherits, directly or not, from an abstract class GenericComic which handles all the common logic. Each webcrawler just needs to provide specific information (name and url) and a way to get the comics after a given one (if any) which is done by implementing the get_next_comic generator.

Other abstract classes, inheriting from GenericComic provide a convenient way to define get_next_comic. The most common is GenericNavigableComic, used for comics where next/previous strips are available using the relevant link.

The whole project relies heavily on BeautifulSoup.

Command-line interface

comicbookmaker.py takes multiple arguments.

--comic (or -c) can be used to tell which comic(s) is/are to be considered (defaults to all of them).
--action (or -a) specifies which actions are to be performed on these comics : update (default behavior), book, etc.

Contributing

Feel free to open issues/open pull requests/ask questions/give comments.

Here is the little to know before contributing :

license is MIT
all pep8 rules apply except for the length of the lines

ComicBookMaker

Install / Use

README

ComicBookMaker

Longer explanation

Command-line interface

See also

Contributing

Comics supported

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