Python 3 script for downloading the featured image from the homepage of Kanobu. After running the script the current directory will contain the individual panels and the merged image. Dependencies: - Beautiful Soup 4 (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/beautifulsoup4/) - Pillow (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow)

kanobu_featured.py

# Copyright (c) 2013 Michael Bikovitsky

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import urllib.request as request    # For downloading html and images
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup       # For parsing HTML

from posixpath import basename      # For saving the downloaded images

# For setting the modification time
import os
from datetime import datetime, timezone
import calendar

# For image manipulation
from PIL import Image
import io

import sys      # For exiting in case of errors

# Helper for dealing with months
months = dict((v, k) for k, v in enumerate(calendar.month_abbr))

# Downloading the web-page
response = request.urlopen("http://kanobu.ru")
raw_page = response.read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(raw_page)

container = soup.find(class_="page-feature-top") # Finding the feature div

try:
    # Getting all the layers
    layers = container.find_all(class_="article-block--img")
except AttributeError:
    print("page-feature-top not found on page. Website is probably "
          "undergoing maintenance.\n")
    sys.exit(1)

# Getting image data
images = [layer["src"] for layer in layers]

# Downloading images
for i in range(len(images)):
    image = images[i]

    image_response = request.urlopen(image)

    time_header = image_response.getheader('Last-Modified').split()
    date = datetime(int(time_header[3]), months[time_header[2]],
                    int(time_header[1]),
                    *[int(part) for part in time_header[4].split(':')],
                    tzinfo=timezone.utc)

    image_data = image_response.read()
    with open(basename(image), mode='wb') as f:
        f.write(image_data)
    os.utime(basename(image), (date.timestamp(), date.timestamp()))

    # Storing downloaded data instead of url
    images[i] = image_data

result = Image.new("RGBA", (0, 0))
for img in images:
    to_copy = Image.open(io.BytesIO(img))
    to_copy = to_copy.convert("RGBA")

    # Resizing if necessary
    if result.size[0] < to_copy.size[0]:
        temp = Image.new("RGBA", (to_copy.size[0], result.size[1]))
        temp.paste(result, (0, 0))
        result = temp
    if result.size[1] < to_copy.size[1]:
        temp = Image.new("RGBA", (result.size[0], to_copy.size[1]))
        temp.paste(result, (0, 0))
        result = temp

    result.paste(to_copy, (0, 0), to_copy)

result.save("Full.png")