comic-get - your source of online comics

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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!

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.

http://wnd.katei.fi/src/comic-get