Tapestry makes me wonder what copyright law has to say about links to a comic in an RSS feed. This guy offers feeds for a number of United Media comics, PvP Online, and others. The idea is great – I don’t hae to hit the comics sites several times a day to find out if PvP has finally updated, and I save time because I can get all my daily strips on a single page (thanks to FeedDemon‘s execllent ‘Newspaper’ feature).
Since a lot of the strips I read are missing, and he hasn’t added feeds for a while, I’ve written my own script with a MySQL backend and plugins for different types of comic pages. All I have to do now to get another comic feed is to add a little data about the strip’s URL into a database, and run the feed update once. Dead simple. All in 150 lines of python. I’m not sure if I should make them public, though – copyright questions and the load on this server kinda make me want to keep them to myself for now. Although uploading them somewhere else would of course be possible…
Ah, what the hell. I’ll make them available and see what happens. Check out the next blog entry for details.