I enjoy web comics and wanted to have the full archive of xkcd.com in my archive, so here is the script I used to grab the images.. Just thought I would share incase anyone else is interested in it as well..
on mouseUp
constant xkcd = "http://xkcd.com/"
constant ImageUrlForHotLinking = "Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding): "
local tData
local tRemotePath
local tLocalPath
answer folder "Select a folder to save the images to:" as sheet
if (it <> EMPTY) then
put it into tLocalPath
repeat with i = 1 to 1255
put URL (xkcd & i & SLASH) into tData
local tLineOffset
put lineOffset(ImageUrlForHotLinking, tData) into tLineOffset
put line tLineOffset of tData into tRemotePath
replace ImageUrlForHotLinking with EMPTY in tRemotePath
local tFileName
set the itemDelimiter to SLASH
put i & " - " & item -1 of tRemotePath into tFileName
put URL tRemotePath into URL ("binfile:" & tLocalPath & SLASH & tFileName)
end repeat
end if
end mouseUp
yeah, there is that option, but a hard drive takes up a certain amount of physical space regardless of the content on the drive, whereas physical books require an increasing amount of physical space as you acquire more, plus bringing along a collection of all the web comics I enjoy, is easier with a portable drive than 100 books
I keep a piece of paper, folded in half, beside the laptop, so I simulate the thrilling experience of flipping pages, as well as getting the realistic battle action sounds associated with said action
