Comics

[andrewducker]

I read a few online comics.

I have a reasonably fast reading speed.

I have no patience.

This does not help me to get through archives of the comics, even fairly good ones. Clicking next every 3 seconds and then waiting 20 seconds for the next 3 seconds of gratification really doesn't work for me.

Comments

[andrewducker]

Oooh - how's that work then?

[aberbotimue.livejournal.com]

was gona sufggest some form of robot to get the files, a quick google for Call_Waitings sugestion, and this is looking like the same concept..

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm

Enjoy your comics!!

[call-waiting.livejournal.com]

Fairly easily, you just look at your archive pages and note the pattern of the URL of the index page, and of the actual comic images. Then just pass those patterns to the accept list (-A) of wget along with the -r recursive flag, and it'll follow the forward and backward links on each page 'till it's got the lot.

...and I was about to say it's available through CygWin (the only way to make Windows vaguely usable) but on running the package installer, I don't see wget on the list. I'm sure curl probably has similar features, but there also does indeed seem to be a wget-for-windows, so that should be your man. :)