#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# Simple program to fetch daily comic strips.
#
# Copyright (c) 2006 Marcus Libäck <marcus@terminal.se>
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use LWP::Simple;
use POSIX qw(strftime);

$comic = "foxtrot";                                                    # Name of comic strip.
$url = "http://www.foxtrot.com/";                                      # Url of the html-code.
$pattern = "(http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ft/.*(.gif|.jpg|.png))"; # Search pattern to exract file name.

$local_path = "/home/phuse/www/images/comics/".$comic."/";             # Where to save the fetched file.
$date = (strftime "%y%m%d", localtime);                                # Today's date...

# Determine the path of the strip.
if (get ($url) =~ /$pattern/) {
    $image = $&;
} else {
    die ("Unable to determine name of image");
}

# Determine the file type
if ($image =~ /(\.gif|\.jpg|\.png)/) {
    $type =  $&;
} else { 
    die ("Unable to determine file type");
}

# Fetch the image and save to file.
open (FILE, '>', $local_path.$comic.$date.$type) or die $!;
print FILE get ($image);
close (FILE);

