#! python3 # downloadXkcd.py - Downloads every single XKCD comic. import requests, os, bs4 url = 'http://xkcd.com' # starting url os.makedirs('xkcd', exist_ok=True) # store comics in ./xkcd while not url.endswith('#'): # Download the page. print('Downloading page %s...' % url) res = requests.get(url) res.raise_for_status() soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(res.text) # Find the URL of the comic image. comicElem = soup.select('#comic img') if comicElem == []: print('Could not find comic image.') else: comicUrl = comicElem[0].get('src') # Download the image. print('Downloading image %s...' % (comicUrl)) res = requests.get(comicUrl) res.raise_for_status() # Save the image to ./xkcd imageFile = open(os.path.join('xkcd', os.path.basename(comicUrl)), 'wb') for chunk in res.iter_content(100000): imageFile.write(chunk) imageFile.close() # Get the Prev button's url. prevLink = soup.select('a[rel="prev"]')[0] url = 'http://xkcd.com' + prevLink.get('href') print('Done.')