Woofy

Hello,

I don't have any ideas how to solve this problem, but there are a few comics that use the "/comics/" page as the last instance of "Next" visited. This causes issues if you plan on using Woofy to get the latest every day because the xmp:source link is pointed at say /comics/ instead of /archive/2012/08/20 for instance.

Just food for thought really. One idea I had was making it so that you could put in the definitions file a way to tell it to "look-ahead" and if that matches the "current comic" url, then to ignore downloading it for now. It will pick it up the next day when a new comic is the current one and the archive will grab the next link properly. Just an idea really, I don't have too many others to solve this issue.

Here are some definitions this affects:

comic "Ctrl+Alt+Del"
start_at "http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20021023/"
 
for page in visit("""<a\s+href="(?<content>[^"]*?)" class="nav-next">Next</a>"""):
    foo = download("""src="(?<content>http://v.cdn.cad-comic.com/comics/[^"]*?)" """)

comic "Least I Could Do"
start_at "http://leasticoulddo.com/comic/20030210"
 
for page in visit("""<div id="nav-next"><a href="(?<content>[^"]*?)">"""):
    foo = download("""src="(?<content>http://cdn.leasticoulddo.com/comics/[^"]*?)" """)

comic "Penny Arcade"
start_at "http://penny-arcade.com/comic/1998/11/18/"
 
for page in visit("""<a class="btnNext btn" href="(?<content>[^"]*?)" title="Next">"""):
    foo = download("""src="(?<content>http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/[^"]*.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png))" """)

It's not really a big deal, but I just thought I would mention it.

Ok, so this isn't a deal at all. I just tweaked the regex on these comics and have the visit links stop at the n - 1 link (so I will be a day behind, but that's not a big deal).

Keenspot comics have the same issue. Would you share the code, how you exactly fixed that? Thanks!

Seems the original poster of this thread is long gone… and he unfortunately didn't update the definitions he posted. Is anyone else skilled enough with Regex to help with a "stop at n-1 link" definition? That would be great.