/* * A template for JavaScript comic plugin for WebStrips * * License: * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at * your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General * Public License for more details. * * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along * with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, * Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA * */ /* * place any global variables and support functions here ... */ var NEWEST_RE = new RegExp("[\n\t ]+[\n\t ]+[0-9\\/]+ ([^\n\t<]+)", "g"); var DATE_RE = new RegExp("(\\d\\d\\d\\d)-(\\d{1,2})-(\\d{1,2})"); var newestDate= null; function parseDate(str) { var m = str.match(DATE_RE); if (m) { d = new Date(m[1] + "/" + m[2] + "/" + m[3] + " 00:00:00"); d.setMilliseconds(0); return d; } else return new Date(); } /* * Function title(id) should return a title for the comic strip with the given id. */ function title(id) { c = parseDate(id); s = get(format("http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/%1$tY/%1$tm/%1$td", c)); p = PATTERN_RE.exec(s); if (p) { return p[2]; } return null; } /* * Function image(id) should return a URL of an image for the comic strip with the given id. */ function image(id) { c = parseDate(id); s = get(format("http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/%1$tY/%1$tm/%1$td", c)); p = PATTERN_RE.exec(s); if (p) { if (p[1].indexOf("http://") == 0) return p[1]; // TODO: I do not know if that still works ... i hope that all urls are absolute now. return "http://art.penny-arcade.com" + p[1]; } return null; } /* * Function previous(id) should return the id of a comic strip that is prior to the comic strip * with a given id or null if there is no such comic. */ function previous(id) { c = parseDate(id); s = get(format("http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/%1$tY/%1$tm/%1$td", c)); p = PREV_RE.exec(s); if (p) { return format("%1$tY-%1$tm-%1$td", parseDate(p[1] + "-" + p[2] + "-" + p[3])); } return null; } /* * Function next(id) should return the id of a comic strip that is next to the comic strip * with a given id or null if there is no such comic. */ function next(id) { // The problem here is that PennyArcade gives an url also for comics that do not exist // yet. And without this check that messes up the system. if (newestDate == null) newest(); c = parseDate(id); if (c - newestDate > -43200000) return null; s = get(format("http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/%1$tY/%1$tm/%1$td", c)); n = NEXT_RE.exec(s); if (n) { return format("%1$tY-%1$tm-%1$td", parseDate(n[1] + "-" + n[2] + "-" + n[3])); } return null; } /* * Function first() should return the id of the first comic strip or null if that information * cannot be obtained for this comic. */ function first() { s = get("http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic"); m = FIRST_RE.exec(s); if (m) { return format("%1$tY-%1$tm-%1$td", parseDate(m[1] + "-" + m[2] + "-" + m[3])); } return null; } /* * Function newest() should return the id of the most recent comic strip or null if that information * cannot be obtained for this comic. */ function newest() { s = get("http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic"); m = NEWEST_RE.exec(s); if (m) { newestDate = parseDate(m[1] + "-" + m[2] + "-" + m[3]); return format("%1$tY-%1$tm-%1$td", newestDate); } return null; } /* * if the information is present you can also implement the following functionality currently * supported by WebStrips (uncoment the functions) */ /* * Function link(id) should return an url pointing to the page where the comic strip with a * given id was retrieved from. */ function link(id) { c = parseDate(id); return format("http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/%1$tY/%1$tm/%1$td", c); } /* * Function archive(id) should process the archive data from the comic strip with the given id on * and return the possible new comics using archiveInsert(id, title) and archiveAppend(id, title) * functions that will only be allowed to call if the archive function is invoked. * * archiveInsert(id, title) - inserts the archive entry at the beginning of the newly generated archive * segment (The last call to this function will insert an entry to the start of the new segment). * * archiveAppend(id, title) - inserts the archive entry at the end of the newly generated archive * segment (The last call to this function will insert an entry to the end of the new segment and thus * to the end of archive). */ function archive(id) { s = get("http://www.penny-arcade.com/archive"); ARCHIVE_RE.lastIndex = 0; while (m = ARCHIVE_RE.exec(s)) { j = m[1] + m[2] + m[3]; archiveInsert(j, m[4]); if (j == id) break; } }