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cbanack / comic-vine-scraper

An add-on script for ComicRack that lets you copy details from Comic Vine into your comic books.
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Scrap number of covers in comicvine #360

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
The number of covers is already loaded in comicvine when you ask for 
alternative covers, but it would be great that this information would be 
scrapped as well to have a record of how many covers a comic has.

I am also asking comicrack owner to add a value for this, but in the mean time 
it could be added in any other variable already in existence...

Original issue reported on code.google.com by tbcat2...@gmail.com on 23 Feb 2014 at 5:36

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
The problem here is that finding the number of covers is SLOW.   That's why it 
doesn't even look for the number of covers unless you click "find covers".  In 
order to scrape them all, it would have to do that automatically for every 
comic as you scraper.   This would greatly slow the scraper down.

Perhaps if cYo adds a field for this, I would consider adding an advanced 
option (like SCRAPE_RATINGS) for people who don't care about having a really 
slow scraper.

Original comment by cban...@gmail.com on 23 Feb 2014 at 7:00

Xelloss-nakama commented 8 years ago

with new covers info in the summary now implemented in comicvine, this could be done quite fast now... (although most old comic info hasn't been updated yet, most new comics has this info)

benjec83 commented 6 years ago

@Xelloss-nakama I'm assuming you're Xelloss on the Comicrack Forums - having trouble posting in there, it says my account is blocked when I just created it.. anyway, you seem to know a bit about ComicRack, wondering if you have any luck with multivalue Alternative Series?