v1.0.7 (2011-07-13)

Just new and updated crawlers.

Crawlers

• New: fagprat
• New: gregcomic
• New: satw
• New: shortpacked
• New: stickycomics
• New: tehgladiators
• Update betty which has moved from comics.com to gocomics.com.
• Update bizarro which moved to a new site.
• Update brandondraws which is no longer published.
• Update countyoursheep after URL changes.
• Update darylcagle after change from GIF to JPEG.
• Update faktafraverden which is no longer published.
• Update fminus which has moved from comics.com to gocomics.com.
• Update getfuzzy which has moved from comics.com to gocomics.com.
• Update lookingforgroup after feed change.
• Update m as it moved from start.no to dagbladet.no.
• Update nemibt to work after site change.
• Update nerfnow which crashed when it did not find an image URL.
• Update peanuts which has moved from comics.com to gocomics.com.
• Update pearlsbeforeswine which has moved from comics.com to gocomics.com.
• Update pondusbt after URL changes.
• Update rockybt to work after site change.
• Update romanticallyapocalyptic to use web page instead of feed.
• Update roseisrose which has moved from comics.com to gocomics.com.
• Update treadingground to not crash if URL is not found.
• Update threadingground which is no longer published.
• Update yehudamoon which was broken by addition of new images.
• Update zits with new feed URL.
• Update generic GoComics.com crawler to also support larger Sunday issues.

v1.0.6 (2011-02-19)

The 1.0.6 release includes two bugfixes, five new crawlers, and many updated crawlers. Also, most crawler schedules have been updated to make the status page more useful.

Bugfixes

• comics.aggregator.lxmlparser.LxmlParser methods now returns an empty list if allow_multiple is :class:True and no value is given for default. This ensures that using the return value in for loops will not fail if no matches are found.
• comics.aggregator.crawler.CrawlerBase.get_crawler_release does no longer create empty releases if the do_crawl method returns false values, like empty lists. It previously only stopped processing if do_crawl returned None.
• Remove safe filter from title text, and explicitly use escape, even though they should be implicitly escaped. Thanks to XKCD #859.

Crawlers

• A lot of comic release schedule updates.
• New: nerfnow
• New: romanticallyapocalyptic
• New: schlockmercenary
• New: spaceavalanche
• New: treadingground
• Update butternutsquash which is no longer published.
• Update charliehorse which is no longer published.
• Update garfield to include Sunday editions.
• Update hipsterhitler to work after feed change.
• Update idiotcomics which is no longer published.
• Update inktank which is no longer published.
• Update intelsinsides which is no longer published.
• Update kiwiblitz to work after feed change.
• Update lifewithrippy which is no longer published.
• Update pcweenies to work after feed change.
• Update petpeevy which is no longer published.
• Update smbc to work after feed change.
• Update superpoop which is no longer published.
• Update thegutters to use feed instead of broken page parser.
• Update threepanelsoul to work after feed change.
• Update userfriendly to support reruns.
• Update wulffmorgenthaler to work after site change.

v1.0.5 (2010-12-29)

A couple of bug fixes, and new and updated crawlers.

Bugfixes

• Do not throw :exc:ParserError in comics.aggregator.lxmlparser when the XML document is a all-space string.
• Catch :exc:socket.error in comics.aggregator.downloader, like we already do in comics.aggregator.crawler.

Crawlers

• New: brandondraws
• New: crookedgremlins
• New: faktafraverden
• New: lunchdb
• New: orneryboy
• New: reveland
• Update foxtrot crawler to work after site change.
• Update gws to work again, and add text parsing.
• Update havet meta data.
• Update lookingforgroup to ignore non-comic releases and fetch multiple pages released on the same day.
• Update magpieluck to handle titles without a dash.
• Update questionablecontent to not check if the page contains the expected date, as that makes us lose some releases.
• Update utensokker to use RSS feed.

v1.0.4 (2010-10-23)

Yet another minor release bringing a bug fix, four new and five updated crawlers.

Bugfixes

• Catch socket.error in CrawlerBase.get_crawler_release().

Crawlers

• New: hipsterhitler
• New: marriedtothesea
• New: stuffnoonetoldme
• New: utensokker
• Update boxerhockey to use feed instead of site.
• Update bugcomic to not fail if URL is not empty, and to work after source site changes.
• Update extralife to work after source site changes.
• Update gunshow to work after source site changes.
• Update questionablecontent to use site instead of feed, since it lacks some releases.

v1.0.3 (2010-07-26)

Another minor release bringing 17 new and 11 updated crawlers.

Bugfixes

• Make crawlers handle httplib.BadStatusLine exception raised when HTTP responses are empty.
• Make crawlers convert lxml.etree._ElementUnicodeResult to unicode objects before saving to the database, to avoid DatabaseError: can't adapt errors.
• Handle MIME types like image/jpeg, image/jpeg returned by mimetools.Message.gettype.
• Use Crawler.headers for image requests, and not just page requests.

Crawlers

• New: apokalips
• New: axecop (fixes GH-8)
• New: boxerhockey
• New: bugcomic (fixes GH-11)
• New: carpediem
• New: crfh
• New: darylcagle
• New: havet (fixes GH-7)
• New: heltnils
• New: intelsinsides (fixes GH-9)
• New: misfile (fixes GH-3)
• New: notinventedhere (fixes GH-4)
• New: pondusno
• New: radiogaga
• New: scenesfromamultiverse (fixes GH-10)
• New: sheldon
• New: thegutters
• Update 8bittheater which is no longer published.
• Update brinkerhoff which is no longer published.
• Update ctrlaltdelete to work after source site changes.
• Update ctrlaltdeletesillies to work after source site changes.
• Update dieselsweetiesweb to work after source site changes.
• Update eon with new source site.
• Update lunch with new source site.
• Update sometingpositive to get all releases.
• Update supereffective to work after source site changes.
• Update vgcats to work after source site changes.
• Update yafgc to work after source site changes.

v1.0.2 (2010-04-11)

A minor release to get crawler updates out there. Two new cool but partly immature features are included, as they do not affect existing features or change the database schema.

Features

• Add status page which for each comic shows when releases are fetched compared to the comic's release schedule. Contributed by Thomas Adamcik.
• Add support for search in comic's title and text fields, using Haystack. Contributed by Thomas Adamcik.

Crawlers

• New: atheistcartoons
• New: petpeevy
• Update evilinc to work again.
• Update uvod to fetch comment too.
• Update gunshow to fetch multiple images per release.
• Update questionablecontent to work again.
• Update basicinstructions to ignore QR Code.
• Update partiallyclips with new feed URL.
• Update somethingpositive with new image URL.
• Update spikedmath to fetch multiple images per release.

v1.0.1 (2010-02-23)

This release features 17 new crawlers and three updated crawlers, most by comic's new contributor Jim Wyllie. Let's get more of those!

Features

• Add links to official sites via redirect page.
• Add comics.aggregator.crawler.GoComicsComCrawlerBase for fast gocomics.com crawler creation.
• Add headers argument to comics.aggregator.lxmlparser.LxmlParser for adding HTTP headers to requests it makes.
• Add time since last release to release-list and comic-list.

Crawlers

• New: babyblues
• New: calamitiesofnature
• New: charliehorse
• New: fminus
• New: forbetterorforworse
• New: girlgenius
• New: hijinksensue
• New: joelovescrappymovies
• New: magpieluck
• New: nonsequitur
• New: overcompensating
• New: pluggers
• New: tankmcnamara
• New: theboondocks
• New: thedreamer
• New: wondermark
• New: yehudamoon
• Update playervsplayer to not miss comics on days with blog posts.
• Update questionablecontent to include text below image.
• Update kalscartoon after target site change.
• Update butternutsquash after target site change.

v1.0.0 (2010-01-27)

A week has gone by, and here is the 1.0.0 final release. Enjoy :-)

Crawlers

• Update uvod crawler to use new feed.

v1.0.0.rc2 (2010-01-19)

Second release candidate for 1.0.0. Again, I will bump to 1.0.0 in a week if no new issues arise.

Bugfixes

• Make core/0006 migration work on the sqlite3 backend.

v1.0.0.rc1 (2010-01-17)

First release, so no list of changes. Will bump to 1.0.0 in a week if no issues arise. Please report any problems at http://github.com/jodal/comics/issues.

Development on comics as a Python/Django project started in February 2007, so this release has been almost three years in the making. Far too long, and I promise it won't be three years until the next release.