Post by Doghouse Reilly on May 17, 2024 10:54:25 GMT -5
This probably doesn't exist, but it costs me nothing to ask...
I just moved my comic inventory from a collection of text files to a database (which I then use to create web pages. it's so much easier using the database), which means, among other things, it's easier to add fields, and it's easier to do batch updates. So I added writer, penciler, inker, and date fields. I've been going through the GCD and manually populating these new fields for my collection. At the rate I'm going, it'll take about six months. This isn't a big deal, but before I waste any more time, I'm trying to see if there is an easier way.
Does anybody know of a public comics database which would be easy (or not too hard) to query programatically? I'm looking for ease in both being able to send a query, and in getting back results that aren't a nightmare to parse. I might try building queries for GCD which can be appended to the URL as the ".../searchNew/?q=" part, but it doesn't look like it would be easy to build one that can return a single comic, and even if it did, I think parsing the returned page would be a headache.
I just moved my comic inventory from a collection of text files to a database (which I then use to create web pages. it's so much easier using the database), which means, among other things, it's easier to add fields, and it's easier to do batch updates. So I added writer, penciler, inker, and date fields. I've been going through the GCD and manually populating these new fields for my collection. At the rate I'm going, it'll take about six months. This isn't a big deal, but before I waste any more time, I'm trying to see if there is an easier way.
Does anybody know of a public comics database which would be easy (or not too hard) to query programatically? I'm looking for ease in both being able to send a query, and in getting back results that aren't a nightmare to parse. I might try building queries for GCD which can be appended to the URL as the ".../searchNew/?q=" part, but it doesn't look like it would be easy to build one that can return a single comic, and even if it did, I think parsing the returned page would be a headache.
