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An add-on script for ComicRack that lets you copy details from Comic Vine into your comic books.
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Show series number intervals on series selection screen #105

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
There are some confusing numbering on some series. For example, Fantastic
Four v1 has 1-500ish (im not checking exact numbers, just a wild example),
then has a gap of around 80 issues, then goes from 580ish->forward.

When we're scrapping an issue, we have to remember from the top of our head
what volume is the right one (or we could check the GREAT issue list we
have now). Any chance of showing the numbering intervals in a column in the
series selection screen? For example, show "1-500,581-" for the example
above. This would make it a breeze to correctly match issue 568 when you
come across it instead of selecting volume 1 by mistake.

Even the way the series are ordered now could benefit from this. The series
with gaps are the only cases where the current "best guess" ordering fails.

Thanks,
fK

Original issue reported on code.google.com by joaomigu...@gmail.com on 4 Jun 2010 at 11:34

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I like this idea a lot, and I'd happily implement it if Comic Vine ever gets 
around
to updating their api to let me to find out the issue numbers in a series 
without
having to download the full details of each issue first!

Right now, though, their API doesn't do that, which is why the scraper has to 
do such
a lengthy load the first time you scrape any series, and also why I'm not able 
to
implement issue #56 (another one that you submitted):

http://code.google.com/p/comic-vine-scraper/issues/detail?id=56

Original comment by cban...@gmail.com on 4 Jun 2010 at 3:37

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Issue 324 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by cban...@gmail.com on 21 May 2013 at 4:58