xkcd 2.4.2

Description:

xkcd 2.4.2

A Python interface to xkcd.com
By Ben Rosser, released under MIT License (see LICENSE for full text).
This is a Python library for accessing and retrieving links to comics
from the xkcd webcomic by Randall Munroe. It is NOT endorsed or made by
him, it’s an entirely independent project.
It makes use of the JSON interface to Randall’s site to retrieve comic
data. Both Python 2 and Python 3 are supported, and there are no
dependencies beyond the Python standard library, so xkcd’s footprint
should be very light.
There is support for accessing specific comics, the latest comic, or a
random comic. Comic metadata can be queried and the comics themselves
can be downloaded onto your local system. The goal is simply to provide
a relatively Pythonic wrapper around the xkcd API for any Python program
or library that wants to access information about xkcd comics, for one
reason or another.
The xkcd module, as of version 2.4.0, also supports getting information
on What If articles from whatif.xkcd.com. This information is generated
by scraping the What If archive page with a HTML parser.
Full API documentation is available
here.

Changelog:



Version 2.4.2:

Switched to using HTTPS URLs for all xkcd queries.



Version 2.4.1:

Routines that take comic/article numbers (e.g. xkcd.getComic()) now
also can take strings containing cardinal numbers.



Version 2.4.0:

Added preliminary What If support; routines for querying basic data
about What If articles now exist.
Comic.download() will create its default directory (~/Downloads) if
it does not already exist, rather than simply failing.
All prints to standard output are now wrapped in “silent” options
that now default to True (this affects xkcd.getComic and
Comic.download); if silent is set, output won’t be printed.
Significantly improved documentation for all available functions and
classes.



Version 2.3.3:

Made pypandoc conversion optional; long_description will be MD
formatted if it cannot be imported (and rST-formatted if it can).



Version 2.3.2:

Fixed distutils URL to point at TC01/python-xkcd, not TC01/xkcd.
Started using pypandoc to dynamically turn README.md into a RST
long-description.



Version 2.3:

Fixed ASCII bug in Python 2.x
Created Sphinx documentation and uploaded it to pythonhosted.org



Version 2.2:

Fixed very silly bug with xkcd.getComic()
Added a getExplanation() which returns an explainxkcd link for a
Comic().
Added support for Python 3!



Version 2.1:

Fixed bugs with Comic.download() function
Added optional parameter to Comic.download() to change name of output
file
Added more information to long_description text


Credits:

Ben Rosser [email protected]: Developer

Contributions from (github users, unless indicated otherwise):

@Kyu
Tanya Sandoval (@tsando)