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Re: Python script to download all xkcds
« Reply #15 on: February 06, 2011, 12:34:17 pm »
I've released a 1.1 update to this library (and replaced the attachment in the first post).

The only change this makes: it now uses xkcd's built-in JSON interface rather than the RSS feed to get the latest comic number. This is good for two reasons:

1. It removes the third-party dependency (you now only need Python 2.x)
2. It stops the script from breaking when the RSS contains things other than comics in it (as it occasionally does).



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Re: Python script to download all xkcds
« Reply #16 on: February 07, 2011, 11:45:22 pm »
Cool to hear. Is it less intensive on their server, too? Also by different stuff do you mean for example XKCD #404?
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Re: Python script to download all xkcds
« Reply #17 on: February 09, 2011, 04:37:44 pm »
Cool to hear. Is it less intensive on their server, too? Also by different stuff do you mean for example XKCD #404?

Well, I'm not sure how more/less intensive it is on their server. I don't know how more or less intensive it is to access JSON or an RSS feed.

As for "different stuff"- no, not like 404, but sometimes they post information about their site store or other miscellaneous news in the RSS as opposed to new comics.




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