cauabernardino/comic_service

Comic Service

Download a new xkcd comic every hour and keeps a chosen quantity of them in the local filesystem at a time. Default is set on 2 comics.

Remarks ✔

• Made for Linux systems
• It requires that you have wget installed on your system
• Scraping is made with beautifulsoup4

How to run ⚙

• Clone this repo with

$ git clone https://github.com/cauabernardino/comic_service

• Make addservice.sh executable and run it

$ chmod +x addservice.sh

$ ./addservice.sh

• It will automatically create the target directory, install requirements and setup the comic_service.py script into the crontable to run every full hour.

  • If you want the service to run every minute, you can change the cronjob variable in addservice.sh, by commenting current one and un-commenting the other.

• The comics will be stored at /comicvault in your home directory

• Checking the syslog can be used to check the execution times of the script

$ tail -f /var/log/syslog 

• To remove the service you can use crontab -e to edit your crontable OR use crontab -r to remove it completely