get-gocomics

#!/bin/bash

# A quick script to snag comics from gocomics.com, put them on imgur, and
# format bbcode for posting them on the Something Awful Forums.

# *** YOU WILL NEED TO GET THE IMGUR UPLOAD SCRIPT FROM https://github.com/tremby/imgur.sh
# AND PUT IT IN THE SAME DIRECTORY ***

# Today's date:
DATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d`
DATESLASH=`date +%Y/%m/%d`
# To give a specific date other than today, customize and un-comment these lines:
DATE='2022-01-01'
DATESLASH='2021/01/01'

for COMICNAME in bignate lil-abner barneyandclyde; do

        RAWOUTPUT=`wget -q -O - "https://www.gocomics.com/${COMICNAME}/${DATESLASH}"`
        FILENAME=`echo "$RAWOUTPUT" | grep '"og:image"' | awk -F '"' '{print $4}'`
        wget -q -O "${DATE}-${COMICNAME}.gif" "$FILENAME"
        DISPLAYNAME=`echo "$RAWOUTPUT" | grep '"og:title"' | awk -F '"' '{print $4}' | sed "s/&amp;/\&/g" | sed "s/&#x27;/'/g" | sed "s/&#39;/'/g" | awk -F ' by ' '{for (i=1;i<NF;i++){if (i>1){printf(" by ")} printf("%s",$i)}}'`
        echo "[b]${DISPLAYNAME}[/b]"
        ./imgur.sh "${DATE}-${COMICNAME}.gif" 2>/dev/null | awk '{printf("[img]%s[/img]\n",$0)}'
        echo

done