Comics webpage on App Engine

[GregoryBurton]

Make my own comics webpage that matches what I liked about Yahoo comics. Features:

• Display all comics chronologically
  • Load by scrolling
• Select specific comic and display all days of that comic Tasks:
• [ ] Desktop bulk loading
  • [ ] A python function to fetch a webpage and parse the day's image link
  • [ ] A desktop python script to load all image links for a comic from GoComics
  • I plan to run a script from my desktop to grab every image link into a csv file
• [ ] App Engine
  • [ ] Be able to post a csv file of bulk loaded image links. It will post the csv and input the data into a gql database
  • [ ] Be able to get a json of image links. Query includes date range. Client can filter out the comic id. Don't need the server to worry about that since it won't reduce the response size much.
  • [ ] Use App Engine's cron service to download comics from GoComics every night.
  • Parse the image link using the desktop function
  • Add to database using function from POST
• [ ] Client
  • [ ] Get current date and query server for link information
  • [ ] Identify unique comics in response and create ability to select All, or individual comic, for display
  • [ ] Display images
  • [ ] Link to load additional images

[GregoryBurton]

Example gocomics image loading: wget http://www.gocomics.com/fminus/2016/01/11 grep -nr feature_item fminus

class="feature_item" is where the image link lives.

[GregoryBurton]

Chron jobs: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/cron?hl=en GQL stuff: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/gqlreference?hl=en