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The Phantom - Help please ? 3 years, 2 months ago #6603

wilsonk
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Have been following the various web comic versions that are being created with interest.

I've been trying the get the following working for The Phantom, one of my long standing comic favorites.

It seems to me it should be very similar to the ones developed on comic.com ... but, can't figure it out.

Here I've used the Toronto Star as the source site, however same is available from a number of smaller newspaper sites.

As always, appreciate any help.

Cheers,
Kevin

<Images>
	<Image Url="?http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/comics?feature_id=Phantom&amp;feature_date=2010-03-01">
      <Parts>
		<Part>'(http://content\.comicskingdom\.net/Phantom/Phantom\.\d*?_med.gif'</Part>
		<Part>Link_Next: '(?&lt ;link&gt ;/entertainment/comics\?feature_id=Phantom&amp ;feature_date=\d*?-\d*?-\d*?)'</Part>
      </Parts>
    </Image>
  </Images>
</WebComic>

Last Edit: 3 years, 2 months ago by 600WPMPO.

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Re:The Phantom - Help please ? 3 years, 2 months ago #6608

600WPMPO
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I have been trying for quite sometime, but have not yet been successful in making it work. Here is the latest code I (unsuccessfully) tried:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<WebComic xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <Images>
    <Image Url="?http://www.oregonlive.com/comics-kingdom/?feature_id=Phantom&amp;feature_date=2010-03-25">
      <Parts>
        <Part>src="(?&lt;link&gt;http://.content\.comicskingdom\.net/Phantom/.Phantom.\d*?\_large.gif)" border="\d*?" alt=</Part>
		<Part>Link_Next: '(?&lt;link&gt;/?feature_id=Phantom&amp;feature_date=\d*?-\d*?-\d*?)'</Part>
      </Parts>
    </Image>
  </Images>
</WebComic>

I'll keep on trying. However, lets hope some of the official developers gets a little time for this.

Let me call one of my superheroes!! Stonepaw, where are you ? we need you... please help

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Edit: 3 hours later and no luck. Another failed attempt:

  <Images>
    <Image Url="?http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/comics?feature_id=Phantom&amp;feature_date=2010-03-01">
      <Parts>
        <Part>src="(?&lt;link&gt;http://content\.comicskingdom\.net/ Phantom/Phantom\.\d*?_med.gif)" border="\d*?" alt=</Part>
        <Part>Link_Next: '(?&lt;link&gt;/Phantom.\d*?-\d*?-\d*?/)'</Part>
      </Parts>
    </Image>
  </Images>

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Last Edit: 3 years, 2 months ago by 600WPMPO.

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Re:The Phantom - Help please ? 3 years, 2 months ago #6613

Stonepaw OFFLINE Moderator Posts: 820 Karma: 151	Here I am I took a look at the website and it doesn't look like it's possible. The site generates the comics automatically with javascript so it is impossible to scrape the links using RegEx as the links are not actually in the source of the page. Sorry
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Re:The Phantom - Help please ? 3 years, 2 months ago #6614

600WPMPO OFFLINE Moderator Posts: 3475 Karma: 151	oooh.. that hurt thanks though for responding to our distress call.. @wilsonk : sorry dude, if stoney say no, then maybe we should abort the Phantom
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Re:The Phantom - Help please ? 3 years, 2 months ago #6616

Stonepaw OFFLINE Moderator Posts: 820 Karma: 151	Unless you can find another site that displays them differently....
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Re:The Phantom - Help please ? 3 years, 2 months ago #6646

wilsonk OFFLINE Fresh Boarder Posts: 2 Karma: 0	Thanks so much for the effort team... awesome help! Will keep hunting around the net ... you never know what can be found. Cheers, Kevin
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Re:The Phantom - Help please ? 3 years, 2 months ago #6770

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Stonepaw wrote:

I took a look at the website and it doesn't look like it's possible. The site generates the comics automatically with javascript so it is impossible to scrape the links using RegEx as the links are not actually in the source of the page.

cYo wrote:

* CHANGE: BrowseScraper now supports multiple levels

Hey Stonepaw, now that we have 0.9.120 up, will it be possible to make the Phantom webcomic, or even better, a template for comicskingdom.net ?

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Re:The Phantom - Help please ? 3 years, 2 months ago #6780

Stonepaw OFFLINE Moderator Posts: 820 Karma: 151	I'll take another look.
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Re:The Phantom - Help please ? 2 years, 1 month ago #14344

Helmic OFFLINE Expert Boarder (Don't be) That guy Posts: 145 Karma: 49	Sorry for the necro, but what does that patch note mean? I can use a regex to search another regex result? If so, what other functionality isn't shown on the wiki page?
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