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reflog/xkcd.py

Created October 31, 2011 09:25
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A small script to store XKCD comics in PDF format
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xkcd.py
import sys, urllib2,json
Base = 'http://xkcd.com/'
Tail = 'info.0.json'
def main():
n = int(sys.argv[1])
k = int(sys.argv[2])
out = open("out3.html","w")
out.write("<html><body>\n")
for i in range(n,k+1):
url = '%s%d/%s' % (Base, i, Tail)
print url
f = urllib2.urlopen(url)
a = f.readline()
f.close()
d = json.loads(a)
out.write("<hr/>\n")
out.write(d['title'] + "<br/>\n")
out.write("<img src=\"%d.%s\"/> <br/>\n"%(i,d['img'][-3:]))
out.write(d['alt'].replace("\n","<br/>") + "</br>\n")
u = urllib2.urlopen(d['img'])
localFile = open('%d.%s'%(i,d['img'][-3:]), 'wb')
localFile.write(u.read())
localFile.close()
out.flush()
out.write("</body></html>\n");
out.close()
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
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