RealLife Comics meets Apple Automator!

[DorkBoy]

I have created a set of Apple Automator workflows (script-like nonscripting scripts) that download every picture from the RealLifeComics archives.

Basically, I'm asking permission to post a link to it, as I'm not sure how much this would effect the server if everyone did it at once (a RealLifeComics super-flush).

It prettty much will dump 1 year of comics at a time, and fill your destination w/ about 100megs of data.

PLEASE??? it's SO nice to have them on your system

I would also make available a program that I threw together that can be ran and hidden at startup, which will automatically grab the daily comic and display it as your desktop.

[Mae Dean]

I"d prefer you didn't post any programs that auto-grab the current comic and display it out of context. Those kinds of things deprive me of pageviews for my advertisers. High traffic with low pageviews == bad for business.

As for the downloading to your HD thing.... I'm torn on it. It's a lot of data to be pulled from the server, again, with no pageviews to back it up. I suppose if you keep that JUST posted to the people here, I wouldn't be too terribly upset, but I also can't guarantee my host admin won't flag it and find a way to block it.

[DorkBoy]

Sounds good. I kindof thought that it wouldn't be a great thing for everyone to have, just a few people. If you need the scripts, they're very simple and I can send it to you. I'm not sure how you're backed up for originals, s it might be a good tool for you.

Your host doesn't care apparently as it worked for me.

Another thing I'm working on is some scripts that will grab my daily comics and RSS feeds and dump them to a personal portal. But now that you mention the whole advertising click-through thing, I'm thinking against it. I don't usually click through on Google Ad-Words anyways, but your banner ads are pretty catchy

[Ward5x5]

I store the comics manually each day as I read it :p. Maybe I could post those to usenet or get a torrent going, if someone wanted to get all of them but didn't want to strain the server. With Greg's permission of course.

[snafu]

[quote="Ward5x5";p="649049"] With Greg's permission of course.[/quote]
I really dont want to speak for Greg, but
[quote="Greg Dean";p="648990"][...]Those kinds of things deprive me of pageviews for my advertisers.[...]bad for business[/quote]
i dont really think he likes the idea of torrenting his masterpieces
well, he cant really do much about it, but grab your IPs and sue you all
but imho he will do some vodoo curses or something like it...

[thief90k]

Dorkboy will it work on Windows? If so can you e-mail it to me? thief90k@gmail.com

[Ward5x5]

[quote="snafu";p="649059"][quote="Ward5x5";p="649049"] With Greg's permission of course.[/quote]
I really dont want to speak for Greg, but
[quote="Greg Dean";p="648990"][...]Those kinds of things deprive me of pageviews for my advertisers.[...]bad for business[/quote]
i dont really think he likes the idea of torrenting his masterpieces
well, he cant really do much about it, but grab your IPs and sue you all
but imho he will do some vodoo curses or something like it...[/quote]

Well this is meant for people who visit the site daily and wanna get a complete archive of the comic but don't wanna abuse the servers where the comics are hosted.

Posted Tue Jul 04, 2006 7:32 pm:

btw, why was the comic for the 30th of May a gif and not a png as usual? I just noticed it scrolling through my collection.

Posted Tue Jul 04, 2006 7:35 pm:

btw², May 22nd was a jpg :s

[dmpotter]

[quote="thief90k";p="649091"]Dorkboy will it work on Windows? If so can you e-mail it to me? thief90k@gmail.com[/quote]
Hmmmm... No?

That being said, doing something like that is a very simple LWP-powered Perl script. Yay regexs!

[Ward5x5]

I think wget would work too, you could download the entire site to your HD, including comics archive.

[thief90k]

I know not what you speak of.

No, I really don't.

[elenaran]

heh did you guys kill the server with this program already?

haven't been able to get on all morning

[Ward5x5]

Server issues

[Hennet_sim]

I had somehitng like this going on like that but i just have it tell me when a new one is up but i wouold like to change it to get all of them so i can have get all of them i can make it do 5 a day so it wount be a drain on the sever if its ok.

[Deacon]

Punctuation, sir. You're a high school graduate. You don't have to be afraid of punctuation anymore.

[Blackjack]

What the fuck did he even say?