Woofy

Trying to make a definition for Wulffmorgenthaler.
It runs just fine in the debugger but when I try to run it for real it crashes the Woofy program.
Can anyone spot what I'm doing wrong?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<comicInfo friendlyName="Wulffmorgenthaler">
    <startUrl><![CDATA[http://www.wulffmorgenthaler.com/]]></startUrl>
    <firstIssue><![CDATA[http://www.wulffmorgenthaler.com/striphandler.ashx?stripid=27f82bea-f799-47e6-97ce-7278fa7c1422]]></firstIssue>
    <comicRegex><![CDATA[striphandler\.ashx\?stripid=[0-9\w-]*"\salt="Strip"]]></comicRegex> 
    <backButtonRegex><![CDATA[<a\shref="(?<content>/[\w]*\.aspx\?id=[0-9\w-]*)"\sid="ctl00_content_[Ss]trip1_aPrev"><img\sstyle='margin:\s5px\s10px\s0\s0;'\ssrc="pics/previous\.gif"\salt="Previous"\s/></a>]]></backButtonRegex>
</comicInfo>

IMO, you're doing two things wrong :)

First, your comicRegex is capturing too much data, causing Woofy to try saving strips with invalid filenames, which of course fails. A better comicRegex would be:

<comicRegex><![CDATA[(?<content>striphandler\.ashx\?stripid=[0-9\w-]*)"\salt="Strip"]]></comicRegex>

Note the content capture group placed around the strip's url. It instructs Woofy to only use that fragment of the regex, while ignoring the \salt="Strip" bit.

Second, this too will crash Woofy :). This is because Wulffmorgenthaler doesn't have actual filenames for each comic, displaying them using guids. So, when Woofy tries to save files with names such as "striphandler.ashx?stripid=60cccc81-011d-448e-b55f-c2bb694e5b42" it fails miserably. You should try renaming the strips using the capture and renamePattern elements - see the documentation for more details, and the xckd definition for an example.

Oh yeah, thanks. This was one of the comics I tried so I hadn't learned the capture group thing yet. Bad of me to miss that. Ah, so that's why the program crashes. Just need to rename the comics then. Thanks :)

Another possibly stupid question. If I have a capture containing an integer, how can I preform normal integer operations on that? I tried the most obvious ways (to me) but they didn't work. I want to rename a comic with the comic number, but all I have is the number of the previous comic, so I want to add 1 to it.

Unfortunately, you cannot do any integer operations on the captures.

However, if we're still talking about Wulffmorgenthaler, why don't you try to rename the strips based on their dates? I see that each page contains a date, allowing you to capture the year, month and day and combine the three captures in a rename pattern.

What do you think?

I already did that for Wulffmorgenthaler ofc. This is a different comic. I guess I can just name them by the previous comic and start at 0 instead of 1, but it was not what I was hoping for. Thanks anyways.