Woofy

I am trying to get calvin and hobbes to work. The tricky thing is that gocomics in their infinite wisdom, has high res photos for some of the comics (like 35%) but not all. I figured, well why not try to get it to work with both. I noticed that Woofy uses Boo interpreter for the def file parsing. So I attempted something:

comic "Calvin and Hobbes"
start_at "http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2007/01/01"

for page in visit("""<a href="(?<content>[^"]*)" class="next">Next feature</a>"""):
    foo = download("""class="strip".*?src="(?<content>http://assets.amuniversal.com/[^"]*?)(\?width=900.0|)" """)
    if len(array(foo)) > 1:
        foo = array(array(foo)[1])

What I was hoping was that if there was more than one image found, to only return the second one. It seems this isn't the case as Woofy just grabs both images on the page that match the regex.

Just wondering if I was doing something wrong.

You should use the match keyword - see the xkcd definition for an example. Basically it returns an IEnumerable<object> (a string[] underneath) containing the matched strings.

I need some help with that too, can't manage to download only the high resolution version when available, the low resolution version is always downloaded as well.

Can anyone help me with the syntax? This is what I have so far, which isn't working. Basically, when it finds the extra_link, it should only download this one, not the first download link.

comic "Incidental Comics (gocomics)"
start_at "URL/incidentalcomics/2011/10/03"

for page in visit("""<a hXrXef="(?<content>.*?)" class="next">Next feature</a>"""):
    title("""<title> (?<content>.*?)\n""")

    download("""src="(?<content>URL/.*?)" width=""")

    extra_link = match("""class="strip" src="(?<content>URL/.*?)\?width=900.0" """) as (string)
    if extra_link != null:
        download("""class="strip" src="(?<content>URL/.*?)\?width=900.0" """)

(Had to remove the live URLs, since I'm not allowed to post those on Wikidot.)

Won't it work if you write it like this (removing the first download statement)?

comic "Incidental Comics (gocomics)"
start_at "URL/incidentalcomics/2011/10/03"
 
for page in visit("""<a hXrXef="(?<content>.*?)" class="next">Next feature</a>"""):
    title("""<title> (?<content>.*?)\n""")
 
    extra_link = match("""class="strip" src="(?<content>URL/.*?)\?width=900.0" """) as (string)
    if extra_link != null:
        download("""class="strip" src="(?<content>URL/.*?)\?width=900.0" """)
    else:
        download("""src="(?<content>URL/.*?)" width=""")

Vladi, you are a champion! That works very well indeed, for most all Gocomics stuff - thank you very much.