There is a webcomic called strong female protagonist that i want to persevere(in case the website is ever lost) but not sure how.
The image you see above is not a webpage of the site but rather a drop-down like menu. There is a web crawler called WFDownloader(that i am using the window’s exe file inside bottles)that can grab images and can follow links, grab images “N” number of pages down but since this a drop-down menu i am not sure it will work
There also the issue of organizing the images. WFDownloader doesn’t have options for organizing.
What i am thinking about, is somehow translating the html for the drop-down menu into separate xml file based on issues/titles, run a script to download the images, have each image named after its own hyperlink and have each issue in its own folder. Later on i can create a stitch-up version of the each issues.
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https://archive.org/details/Strong-Female-Protagonist-webcomic-online
You can download it as a 320MB zip, but maybe best to torrent it and seed for others.
The Internet Archive is a treasure.
It’s going to hurt when they annoy the wrong billionare and get sued out of existance.
Thanks you ❤️, but my country doesn’t allow any outgoing connections
What country is this if you are safe to say? I haven’t heard of anything like that before
sorry i meant uploads and port-forwarding(This is in Egypt). Tried to seed for MyAnonymouse(a private tracker for books) but couldn’t
If you’re just after the comics themselves, then look at dosage. It looks to support this web comic.
Seems like you have a good alternative that doesn’t require a script, but for tasks like this I like to recommend the book Automate the Boring Stuff with Python. It’s free to read online, and if I recall correctly has essentially exactly this task as one of the exercises.
If you view the source of the homepage, you’ll see some HTML that starts with this:
<div class="archive-dropdown-wrap"> <ul class="archive-dropdown"> <li><span class="chapter-label">Issue 1</span><ul><li><a href="https://strongfemaleprotagonist.com/issue-1/page-0/">CoverThat’s the HTML for the drop-down. Although if I were you, I’d look into taking advantage of WordPress’ JSON API, since that website uses WordPress.
For example, here’s a list of the images uploaded to the site in JSON format: https://strongfemaleprotagonist.com/wp-json/wp/v2/media?per_page=100&page=1 (Limited to 100 entries per page)
I can see the url for each image when opening when the json link(source_url:) and each image is labeled in the correct order as far as i can see but how do i grab the urls?
Maybe look into awk language compile a list of urls than pass them through curl?
jq is sort of like awk but specifically meant for JSON so it should be a lot easier.
i’m presuming that you’ve tried something like curl or wget wrapped in a for loop to iterate through each page to do this and that it didn’t work somehow.
robots.txt would probably put a stop to that
i was asking op if they used a manual approach, which wouldn’t be impacted by something like robots.txt
Haven’t used curl or wget,have yet to start using command-line(outside of solving some linux issue or organizing family photos) but open to learning.
