Introduction
Do you get your daily fix of comic strips online? Do you visit gazillion webpages to read them? Tired of all that hassle? Choose comfort. Choose ease-of-use. Choose tranquillity. Choose differently. Choose comic-get. comic-get is a command line utility for automatic fetching of online comics, and a tribute to all-famous apt-get.
Features
comic-get uses rulefiles, sort of packages, to figure where and how to get the comics. End users only need to install certain package, such as “mutts”, and tell comic-get up fetch the newest comic strip for installed packages. In the likely case desired comic does not yet have a rulefile, user can write one him- or herself, and set up a repository for others to use!
- Easy to use:
comic-get searchto find comics,comic-get installto install comics,comic-get upgradeto get the newest comics - Can be run from cron to get comics daily, automatically
- Closely resembles apt-get
Requirements
Written in Perl, comic-get can be run on virtually any modern operating system.
Because rulefiles commonly convert images to pre-defined file format, convert
from ImageMagick is essential.
Documentation
Documentation of comic-get in included in the distribution package as
DocBook XML-file and PDF. There also exists occasionally updated
online version, created with docbook2html.
Download
bzip2-compressed tar-balls of checked out Subversion repository exist.