This is a collection of scripts that will scrape popular web comic sites and will combine the links to the comic image into a single xml file that can be put into an RSS Reader like google reader.
There are two python libraries required to run this script. One that is used to help with parsing the html, and one that generates the rss xml.
Mechanize: http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/ To include in this script, either run the python setup.p install script or just manually add the mechanize/ directory in the src/ directory below so that it can be included automatically by Python
PyRSS2Gen: http://www.dalkescientific.com/Python/PyRSS2Gen.html This is a single python file that again be inclued via the setup.py script, or just manually copy the file into the src directory to be included by Python
There are two composite parts to the comic syndicator
- A scheduled task that fetches the URL of the comic for that day (the comicDownload.py script)
- A generated RSS feed that can be subscribed to by a syndication reader, like Google Reader. All the feeds are viewable from the feeds.py page