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.')