GrabCartoons
GrabCartoons is yet another comic-grabbing utility. It is modular, and it is very easy to write modules for new comics. To avoid depriving the comic Web sites from their hits, grabcartoons does not download a copy of the images, but only generates a page with links to them.
| Licenses | BSD Original |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | OS Independent |
| Implementation | Perl |
Recent releases
- 08 Dec 2008 14:51
Changes: This release adds the capability to define templates, which define how to fetch any comics from a given site. This release also adds the StartRegex and EndRegex fields to comic definitions, and expanded SubstOnRegexResult to allow for multiple and global substitutions. This release also adds an option to fetch random comics (--random). Additionally, this release includes many module updates and fixes, and one new module for "Savage Chickens" (http://savagechickens.com/).
- 27 Jul 2008 07:11
Changes: This release adds 16 new user-contributed modules. It also fixes the "User Friendly" module to get the large version of the comic. For module developers, a SubstOnRegexResult parameter was added for performing replace operations on captured strings.
- 20 Jul 2008 23:48
Changes: This release addresses many changes in existing modules, and adds modules for Ctrl+Alt+Del and Get Fuzzy.
- 24 Aug 2007 00:41
Changes: Modules can now capture and display extra image attributes (for example, a caption that appears when you hover the mouse over the image) and individual titles for each episode, for those comics that have them. Also, the output now uses CSS for defining its appearance, and should be strict-HTML compliant. Finally, several modules have been updated.
- 04 May 2007 00:52
Changes: The format for comic modules has been completely rewritten. It is now much easier to write new modules.
