Forgive me if this is spam or off-topic. That is not my intention at all. However, having written a program to allow me to read Inherit the Earth offline, I thought that some other people might like it.
The script can be found here (http://i80and.googlepages.com/Inherit.py).
It's a simple python (http://www.python.org) script that downloads all of the Inherit the Earth comics up to a variable set in the script. By default, it will get up to comic 83, and is configured for Windows. To change it for Linux compatibility, go to line 5:
comic = open('C:\ITE\comic' + str(i) + '.gif', 'wb')/code]
[s]and change it to[/s]
[code]comic = open('/home/[i]yourusername[/i]/ITE/' + str(i) + '.gif', 'wb')
Please note that the directory you're putting it in should already exist.
To change the number it will download up to, go to line 4:
while i <= 83:
and change it to
while i <= [i]current comic number plus 1[/i]:
It should work on any python interpreter that has the urlopen method in the urllib2 library.
I hope that someone else finds this useful. Sorry if a program like this already exists. I may make enhancements later that make updating fast and automatic.
I edited this post to note that all the stricken text above is obsolete. Please see later posts to get the latest information.[/code]
The latest strip number is found at the bottom of each strip page: "This is strip #85." Maybe you could fetch the index page and extract the number to get the current strip number.
Another option would be to simply keep downloading until a HTTP GET request returns a 404 error, though this would result in a lot of 404 errors...
Ok, I made quite a few changes to this version:
- Automatically determines latest comic number. Thanks, WyrmMaster!
- Automatically determines operating system, and prompts for path if OS is not Windows
- Automatically downloads comics missing from indicated directory
- Better error-handling:
- Downloads file before creating file
- Handles HTTP errors gracefully
- Setup file created; source still available
- Chose GPL as license; if I'm not fully conforming please tell me and I'll try to fix that
The source can be found here (http://i80and.googlepages.com/Inherit-1-5.py).
The Windows setup file can be found here (http://i80and.googlepages.com/inherit-setup.exe).
I have a few other ideas, and if I find time I might look into them. Again, I hope this is useful to somebody.
Note that the uninstaller installed by the Windows installer will not uninstall downloaded comics.I edited this post to note that all the stricken text above is obsolete. Please see later posts to get the latest information.
Ok, I made a simple viewer. I made a page to support it, which can be found here (http://i80andprojects.googlepages.com/Inherit.html).
It's viewer is command-line driven, and is written in Tkinter. I have one more change in mind before I wrap this totally up. In addition to the new viewer, the installer will now remove all downloaded comics, and has an option to start the spider when you login.
If I continue working on this, one thing I would love to add would be an awesome CEGUI UI.
Once again, I hope someone finds this useful!