Okay so I ran into another snag. I think I fixed the first issue I had with virtualbox but now I am getting
No idea, though maybe this can help
I'm not sure what difference this would make as I've never had a BIOS change not take but maybe the guy is onto something, it apparently solved the OP of that thread's problem.
Thanks! I'll get the whole VM stuff figured out eventually but I appreciate your help and for setting up the files on onionshare. Downloading them now (going to take about five hours according to the downloader) and I will let you know when it finishes. Once again I really appreciate all the help you have given me with this. Some people will be like "Why didn't you just read them on the website itself since they are free?" and I don't know I just feel better about "having" them, so to speak. The internet is a constantly changing thing and I am worried that many of the more obscure sites I like will up and vanish one day and there will be no archives or anyone who really cares. Happy New Year to you also!
No prob, I just realized the pdf solution didn't work as well as intended, particularly on WOLFQUEST and used img2pdf instead of convert to fix it which seems to have worked much better. If you want the updated pdfs shared via onionshare let me know but otherwise here's the updated script using img2pdf instead of convert (laziest way to implement it)
#!/usr/bin/env bash
#root url
parent_url="https://elfquest.com/read/"
#Arrays for each comic on the webpage. Each index in each array relates to each other array
#lazy associative arrays
quests=("ELFQUEST" "SIEGE_AT_BLUE_MOUNTAIN" "KINGS_OF_THE_BROKEN_WHEEL" "WOLFRIDER" "DREAMTIME" "HIDDEN_YEARS" "SHARDS" "SEARCHER_AND_THE_SWORD" "THE_DISCOVERY")
#quests=( "WOLFRIDER" "DREAMTIME" "HIDDEN_YEARS" "SHARDS" "SEARCHER_AND_THE_SWORD" "THE_DISCOVERY")
#Number of issues for each comic
num_issues=( 21 8 9 1 1 29 16 1 1 )
#num_issues=( 1 1 29 16 1 1 )
directories=( "OQ" "SABM" "KOBW" "WR" "DTC" "HY" "SH" "SAS" "DISC" )
#directories=( "WR" "DTC" "HY" "SH" "SAS" "DISC" )
filenames=( "oq" "sabm" "kobw" "awr" "dtc" "hy" "sh" "sas" "disc" )
#filenames=( "awr" "dtc" "hy" "sh" "sas" "disc" )
#Lazy bools for oddball quests/comics
#Initially added to facilitate HIDDEN_YEARS which has 30 issues due to an issue #9.5
#Using an array in case this comes up again
#Using C-style 1 = true and 0 = false
#booleans=( 0 )
#bool_index=0
declare -A booleans
booleans["HY"]=0
#used for troubleshooting to help indicate arrays worked as intended
for i in ${!quests[@]}
do
echo Quest: ${quests[$i]} Issues: ${num_issues[$i]}
done
#Go through each quest/comic and then go through each issue of the comic
for i in ${!quests[@]}
do
echo ${quests[$i]}
curr_issue=1
#Go through each issue of the current comic/quest
while [ "$curr_issue" -le "${num_issues[$i]}" ]
do
#Start on page 0 which appears to always be cover page
curr_page=0
#echo "$curr_issue "
#If there's only one issue then there is no subdirectory
#Subdirectories are for each issue only
if [ ${num_issues[$i]} -eq 1 ]
then
# url="$parent_url${directories[$i]}-"
url="$parent_url${directories[$i]}/${filenames[$i]}-"
else
#Check if the current issue is < 10 and prepend with a 0 if so
if [ $curr_issue -lt 10 ]
then
url="$parent_url${directories[$i]}/${directories[$i]}0${curr_issue}/${filenames[$i]}0${curr_issue}-"
else
url="$parent_url${directories[$i]}/${directories[$i]}${curr_issue}/${filenames[$i]}${curr_issue}-"
fi
fi
#Specific check for the HIDDEN_YEARS comic edition 9.5
#NOTE - Bash does not handle floating point values (eg 9.5) and I'm not using awk or anything to work around it
#If the current issue is 9.5, the current comic is HIDDEN YEARS and the HY bool has NOT been set (so remains 0)
#Set URL accordingly and curr_isue to 9.5 (a string, not a float)
if [ $curr_issue -eq 10 -a ${directories[$i]} = "HY" -a ${booleans["HY"]} -eq 0 ]
then
url="$parent_url${directories[$i]}/${directories[$i]}09.5/${filenames[$i]}09.5-"
#Set first boolean index to 1
booleans["HY"]=1
curr_issue="9.5"
fi
#Wget each image until failure
#Susceptible to premature failure and so may not finish an issue. A few runs should be fine
#Wget options
#--no-clobber Don't overwrite existing files
#--continue Continue partial downloads
#--verbose Verbose output
#--timeout=5 Wait 5 seconds before moving on from timeout
#--directory-prefix Directory to store files in. Example - ELFQUEST/issue_1/
while wget --no-clobber --continue --verbose --timeout=5 --directory-prefix="${quests[$i]}/issue_$curr_issue/" "$url${curr_page}.jpg"
do
#increment to next page
((curr_page+=1))
#sleep for 2-9 seconds (excessive but safe in my experience)
sleep $((1 + $RANDOM % 3))
done
#NOTE - This will run on every run for better or worse. Comment it out if undesired
#Convert each issue into a pdf use ImageMagick's convert tool
#Check if convert is installed before attemping to make a pdf
#which convert > /dev/null
#Check if img2pdf is installed before attemping to make pdf
which img2pdf > /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
#If appropriate pdfs directory does not exist, create it
if [ ! -d ${quests[$i]}/pdfs ]
then
mkdir ${quests[$i]}/pdfs
fi
#If there are multiple issues then apply the issue number to the filename
#Else just use the comic name
if [ ${num_issues[$i]} -gt 1 ]
then
#convert $(ls ${quests[$i]}/issue_$curr_issue/*jpg | sort -n -t - -k 2) ${quests[$i]}/pdfs/${quests[$i]}_$curr_issue.pdf
img2pdf $(ls ${quests[$i]}/issue_$curr_issue/*jpg | sort -n -t - -k 2) -o ${quests[$i]}/pdfs/${quests[$i]}_$curr_issue.pdf
else
#convert $(ls ${quests[$i]}/issue_$curr_issue/*jpg | sort -n -t - -k 2) ${quests[$i]}/pdfs/${quests[$i]}.pdf
img2pdf $(ls ${quests[$i]}/issue_$curr_issue/*jpg | sort -n -t - -k 2) -o ${quests[$i]}/pdfs/${quests[$i]}.pdf
fi
fi
#If the current issue is 9.5, the current comic is HIDDEN YEARS and the HY bool has been set to 1
#Then set curr_issue=10
#Else increment by 1
if [ $curr_issue = "9.5" -a ${directories[$i]} = "HY" -a ${booleans["HY"]} -eq 1 ]
then
curr_issue=10
else
#increment to next issue of current comic
((curr_issue+=1))
fi
done
done
