5 July 2012
PhD Comics Downloader
If you like PhD Comics, try this.
Put the following Unix/Linux Bash script into a file named "phdcomics-download.sh".
#! /bin/sh curl http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=[${1-1}-${2-1420}] 2> /dev/null | \ perl -wnl -e 'print $1 if m|(http://.*?/phd[^/]*?\.gif)|' | \ xargs -n 1 wget -nc -nd -P comics
Make it executable
chmod +x phdcomics-download.shand execute it.
./phdcomics-download.shWait a while and see what is inside the newly created directory
comics
.
Optionally, you can put two numbers after the script to download only a range of the stripes, like this.
./phdcomics-download.sh 1 1420 # 1420 is the latest one as of today
Enjoy, and thank the authors.