miércoles, 10 de marzo de 2010

Load an entire webcomic (or part of it) at once

This will require Firefox and FlashGot.

Certain webcomics like www.sinfest.net store their images in a restricted folder, therefore we cant access them directly.
However, I noticed the images follow a naming pattern, which means a Regular Expresion should be able to find all the possible matches.
This is what i did:
1) Navigate to your webcomic, right click the strip, and click on "View image", take note on the files name and path (in this case, http://www.sinfest.net/comikaze/comics/2010-03-10.gif)
2) Navigate to the previous strip, and click on "View image" once more, take note on the name
(in this case, 2010-03-09.gif)
3) Now we need to identify a pattern, in this case, we can note the images are named [year]-[month]-[day].gif
4) Navigate to the first strip of the webcomic, so we can know from where to start.
5) Click on Tools, FlashGot, Build Gallery
6) Fill in the following:
In the first line, puth the entire path to an image, then change the year to [YearOfFirstStrip-YearOfLastStrip] (in this case: [2000-2010]). Do the same for month and days, in the end it should look like this: http://www.sinfest.net/comikaze/comics/[2000-2010]-[01-12]-[01-31].gif
7) Click on the arrow pointing downards, and change the file extension to .gif again
8) Wait for it to load and enjoy

-It is advised to load a few or one year at a time.
-Some images will never load because they simply don't exist, for example 2004-02-31.gif will never load because February will never have a 31th day.
-If you want to store the images into your hard drive, save the page as Web Page (Complete).

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