XKCD Scraper

Let's download all the XKCD comics and their titles! Why not use a browser plugin? Because you are a geek (or just want to look cool among your friends 😆)!!!

Dependencies

Requests Python Module
Get it by doing

pip install requests

Setup Instructions

Why are you even reading this (unless you are somebody new to Python)???
Make sure you have all the dependencies resolved before proceeding.

git clone https://github.com/hashhar/xkcd-scraper.git
python xkcd-scraper.py --your-arguments

Command Line Options

Unfortunately, you will need to provide command line parameters everytime you run the script (because I am a bad, bad man 😈)

-o directory, --output-dir directory
Changes the output directory to directory.
The default output directory is the current working directory.
N
This will fetch the comic number N from xkcd where N is an integer or a set of integers greater than or equal to 0.
Use 0 to fetch the latest comic.
-r M N, --range M N
Fetches comics within the range M to N.
-r 3 30, --range 3 30 will fetch the comics from 3 to 30.
-a, --all
Fetches all the comics from the first one to the latest.
-x N, --random N
Fetches N pseudo-random (because, well, the world is not fair) comics. You can specify how many you want to fetch as -x 10, --random 30. This will fetch 30 random comics.
-t, --title
Appends the title of the comic to the filename of the downloaded comic

Comments

I am still working on it so feel free to contribute code and file issues and feature requests.

Food For Thought

Is there anything that is totally random? - StackExchange
Randomness vs Unpredictability - Wikipedia
Can we sure that randomeness exists? - Quora

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