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I've been receiving comics via email for months. Unfortunately, both comics.com and ucomics.com are moving to a subscription model, where I think you can get a single comic by email for free, or sign up (and pay!) to get more. I figured I'd have to head to the web regularly now, something that I don't generally do!
Luckily, about three weeks ago, I stumbled upon Tapestry, by David Thomson. David has put together some Python scripts that scrape the pages of various comic sites and assemble a feed with the individual comics in them. I actually tried my hand at a couple of these scripts, but not knowing Python, David had to help me out (eventually they made it onto the list, but I can't take any credit).
What's more is that David is very accommodating at adding new requests. You don't even have to try your hand at the Python scripts - he'll do the work for you!
This is a great service - and if you make use of it, remember that David has to pay the bills for offering it to you! Not only does he put the scripts together to handle the feeds, but he is hosting them - all at no cost. So if you enjoy the service he provides, get him a book! There are more than 400 on the list - surely you can find something!
Comments (4)
Shucks - thanks for the nice write up!
Posted by dwlt on August 12, 2003 9:44 AM
Only problem is that, for those using W2000 and Msxml2.XMLHTTP, Tapestry uses <guid isPermaLink="false"> in their RSS and that dont compute nor play well with Msxml2.XMLHTTP.......
Posted by dewaldsr on February 2, 2004 10:39 PM
Thanks for the info - but I think there are a lot of feeds you'll find (such as my feeds) that use the same setting for the guid. Most Movable Type systems are likely to have the same thing, since that's what is done by the default template.
I don't think you can really blame Tapestry for that - this is definitely an MS issue. If having problems, you may want to try out another aggregator - such as Bloglines.
Posted by Chad Everett on February 3, 2004 5:21 AM
Comic Alert is another great source for comics in RSS feeds. They have a HUGE selection available and you can customize your own feed with all your favorites.
Posted by Ravis on June 17, 2004 5:26 AM