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XKCD Comics Scraper

Downloads comic images from xkcd.com — either every comic in bulk, or a single comic by number — saving them to a local xkcd folder.

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XKCD Comics Scraper

Downloads comic images from xkcd.com — either every comic in bulk, or a single comic by number — saving them to a local xkcd folder.

Example

Choose your option:
1.Download all images	2.Download Specific image
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Enter any comic number between 1-2990: 42
Download image http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/geeks_and_nerds.png
Finished

To download every comic, choose option 1. The script traverses pages backwards from the latest, printing each URL as it downloads into the xkcd/ folder.

How to run on localhost

pip install requests beautifulsoup4 lxml
python comicXCD_scraper.py

Dependencies

requests
beautifulsoup4 (bs4)
lxml