See comic subscriptions in NetNewsWire 2.0

Nov 30, '04 09:54:00AM

Contributed by: smorr

One thing I like to do with NetNewsWire 2.0 is to get my daily comics. The person who runs Tapestry has provided some feeds, but this does not include all the comics I like. Fortunately, ucomics.com provides a standard format for the location comic images for each date (see note below). So it was simple enough to write a python script which I then used as a special subscription in NNW.

To make use of it, I make a script subscription (File -> New Special Subscription -> Script...) to my ucomics.py script (make sure you make the script executable with chmod +x ucomics.py) with the argument: Name of Comic|directory|imageprefix. For example, Boondocks|boondocks|bo or Doonesbury|doonesbury|db (the image prefix can be found by going to the ucomics website and viewing a specific comic. The image prefix will be the first two to three letters of the image filename.

Note: Each comic image can be found at this generic URL:

http://images.ucomics.com/comics/Prefix/YEAR/PREFIXyymmdd.gif
where COMICDIRECTORY is the directory of the comic (eg forbetterorforworse), and PREFIX is the two or three letter abbreviation for the comic (eg fb). So 'For better or for worse' for November 28, 2004 would be found at this URL:

http://images.ucomics.com/comics/fb/2004/fb041128.gif

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