[Jaco2k]

Hi all,

There is one Comics plugin available but it seems to be quite broken and doesn't work at all (at least for me) under Linux

Could someone come up with a new one?

Cheers,
J

[micster]

Could you be more specific? What does it need to do?

[Jaco2k]

Could you be more specific? What does it need to do?

Well something simple would suffice that you can add comic strips to and browse them (E.g. By comic, daily, etc.)

this one is flash, unfortunately, so I don't think it can be fetched:
http://www.garfield.com/comics/todayscomic.html

but for instance:
http://www.explosm.net/comics/1626/
http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/

People can maybe add more fave comics requests in here - it should maybe provide an easy way to add more comic strips to it.

This site looks like a good reference - maybe it could somehow be parsed?
http://www.gocomics.com/features/#entertainment

[Voinage]

Each website has a different structure, getting the jpg`s via scraping will be different for each site.

So you cannot just add a site for parsing.

It`s quite a simple process for comics and images though.

[Jaco2k]

Each website has a different structure, getting the jpg`s via scraping will be different for each site.

So you cannot just add a site for parsing.

It`s quite a simple process for comics and images though.

On my previous post, the last link, seems like a site that actually collects the comics from other sites and reformats them for displaying - maybe taking the code links from that site would work (yeah, I know nothing about coding so this might be a totally dumb idea...)

[ijourneaux]

The Comics plugin that was community developed for SnapStreams BeyondMedia might provide a good starting point. The last time it was updated was in Feb 2007 and it still works correctly so the scraper should be pretty stable.

The reason I originally looked at XBMC was because BeyondMedia is nolonger really supported.

Here is the link the the thread on the Comics plug-in

http://forums.snapstream.com/vb/beyond-m...pdate.html

I would like to help but not sure where to start

[Jaco2k]

The Comics plugin that was community developed for SnapStreams BeyondMedia might provide a good starting point. The last time it was updated was in Feb 2007 and it still works correctly so the scraper should be pretty stable.

The reason I originally looked at XBMC was because BeyondMedia is nolonger really supported.

Here is the link the the thread on the Comics plug-in

http://forums.snapstream.com/vb/beyond-m...pdate.html

I would like to help but not sure where to start

THAT would be EXACTLY what I had in mind, but of course I know not much about programming and cannot help in any way. But from what I saw, that would be perfect - interface and everything...

Anyone? Pretty please? With sugar on top??

[Jaco2k]

tiny, weenie, little, shy *bump*

[LittleBear1981]

I too would appreciate a daily comics plugin or script.
perhaps we could scrape these sites. comics.com offers signup for customized comics and rss feeds.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...ng/comics/
http://comics.com/

[Dan Dare]

I'll have a look if no one else wants to take it - might be worth the effort, maybe have one plugin to include more sites or one per site, we'll see...

I would also add http://xkcd.com/

[LittleBear1981]

I would love to have a plugin that i can add as a source to xbmc to display daily comic strips.. perhaps from http://darkgate.net/comic/

just a thought
thanks

[VictorV]

I guess the best alternative would be a independent plugin, so that sources and expression was read from a xml file or something. That would make the plugin more flexible and one would not need to fix the script all the time.

Seems like most comics can be found with a url similar to "http://www.mycomic.com/020209.jpg", so a xml with entries like:

Code:

<comic>
<title>My Comic</title>
<url>http://www.mycomic.com/$DAY$MONTH$YEAR.jpg</url>
</comic>

will cover many (most?) of them.

[Dan Dare]

Although a good idea, that may not work... e.g.

first comic here has an "id" of 15...
http://www.explosm.net/comics/15/

and the comic image is ...
http://www.explosm.net/db/files/Comics/k...ce0001.jpg

[Jaco2k]

Although a good idea, that may not work... e.g.

first comic here has an "id" of 15...
http://www.explosm.net/comics/15/

and the comic image is ...
http://www.explosm.net/db/files/Comics/k...ce0001.jpg

What about the other site posted on this thread? Would it be easier to parse that one?

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edit:
I mean this one: http://darkgate.net/comic/

[Dan Dare]

Haven't looked at the HTML code in detail, but it may not be as complicated, I'll see if I can get something started...