cbanack / comic-vine-scraper

An add-on script for ComicRack that lets you copy details from Comic Vine into your comic books.

Looking to download and install the Comic Vine Scraper plugin? Click here to get started.

Project Status

I am maintaining the Comic Vine Scraper project, but I am no longer actively adding new features.

The latest release of this app is functional as of March 2024, and should remain usable for the foreseeable future. As my schedule permits, I will continue to provide minor maintenance patches and bugfixes to keep things running smoothly. I will not be adding new features, however, and I do not have time to review or maintain large pull requests.

The code here provides a solid example of how to properly use the Comic Vine API, should you happen to want to create your own project that does that. Also, if you are a relatively experienced python developer and you're interested in taking over Comic Vine Scraper, please feel free create your own fork and run with it!

For those of you who've used and supported Comic Vine Scraper over the last 15 years, you have my sincere thanks for all your efforts and kind words. Here's to 15 more!

-Cory

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Docs and Binaries

All documentation about this project, including the latest downloads and installation instructions can be found on the Comic Vine Scraper Wiki page.

Technical Details

This project is written for Windows, using IronPython and the .NET library. It displays WinForms graphics and makes heavy use of the ComicVine REST API. It is a plugin for the ComicRackCE comic book reader, which is a standalone Windows desktop application. Except during development (see below), Comic Vine Scraper does not run outside of ComicRackCE's plugin environment.

This project is currently set up to compile and run in the VS Code IDE using the Microsoft Python Extension with properly installed versions of both Python (for parsing source code in the IDE) and IronPython (for running the code using .NET assemblies). In other words, you should have ipy.exe, python.exe, and pylint.exe working on your command-line before you get started.

You should also get Java and Ant (i.e. java.exe and ant.exe) installed and running, since this project uses Ant to build, test, and run the plugin during development.

All IronPython code is currently written for Python version 2, not 3.

Pull Requests

At this point, I am not accepting large pull requests -- if you want to make major changes, please feel free to create your own fork! Comic Vine Scraper is a stable, mature project and my work on it these days is simply maintenance and bug fixing. I'm likely to accept well-written pull requests for straightforward fixes and small improvements, but please contact me before you start doing any major work.

License

This project is created and distributed under the Apache 2.0 License. This is an open source license, so you are welcome to create, build, and maintain your own fork of the codebase if you have a major enhancement that you want to add, or a wild new direction that you'd like to take the project.

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 
distributed under this License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

comic-vine-scraper's Issues

System.Net.WebException: The operation has timed out

Unexpected error on searches with too many results?


WHAT VERSION OF COMICVINESCRAPER ARE YOU USING?

1.0.10



PLEASE PROVIDE ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THAT MAY BE OF USE

Seems to only happen with large search results.  Was not an issue in prior
versions.  Possibly related to new "features" comicvine api rolled out?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 24 Feb 2010 at 3:31

Attachments:

• [star wars](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/comic-vine-scraper/issue-39/comment-0/star wars)

Series is missing from comicvine query.

DESCRIBE THE PROBLEM:

If you search for "strange", a series that exists in comicvine does NOT
show up in the series window.

http://www.comicvine.com/strange/49-29665/

See more details here:

http://comicrack.cyolito.com/user-forum/13-scripts/5238-comicvinescraper-an-impo
rtcomicvineinfo-clone?limit=6&start=114#5519

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 20 Feb 2010 at 10:55

Improved caching

The script could run an lot faster if the caching caching did more than
just the ID number for specific comic books.

One of the most useful things to cache would be the series cover images, as
this is a major point where the script slows down, and also it puts the
highest network load on ComicVine.

Suggestion was made here:

http://comicrack.cyolito.com/user-forum/13-scripts/5238-comicvinescraper-an-impo
rtcomicvineinfo-clone?limit=6&start=24#5286

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 7 Feb 2010 at 7:44

Scraper is not adding any info the files

DESCRIBE THE PROBLEM:
I am no longer getting any info added with Scraper. It hangs for a long
time on the first cover, the runs through normally until complete, but no
info is ever added.


WHAT STEPS WILL REPRODUCE THIS PROBLEM? (Please include the exact name of
the eComic book that you were trying to scrape, if possible.)
This issue is not comic-specific


WHAT VERSION OF COMICVINESCRAPER ARE YOU USING?

1.0.12
1.0.11

PLEASE PROVIDE ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THAT MAY BE OF USE

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 1 Mar 2010 at 12:15

Make titles search case-insensitive

Hi, this is a very easy one, I think...

Consider a series (say '99 bottles') with 99 issues in it... unfortunately, 
some comics are parsed by ComicRack as '99 Bottles' and others as '99 
bottles'. Now I select them all, and launch the script, select the series, 
the script downloads data and starts updating but whenever it finds 'bottles' 
instead of 'Bottles' it launches the series selection again... 

If the script could recognize '99 bottles' and '99 Bottles' as the same 
series then this would be made in one go!

Thanks

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 23 Feb 2010 at 2:46

Wrong window icon.

DESCRIBE THE PROBLEM:

This icon in the window that displays the user's eComic is the default
ironpython icon.  It should be the ComicVineScraper icon, or else no icon
at all, like all the other windows.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 7 Feb 2010 at 10:12

Script does not grab the proper alternate storyline name/arc information.

DESCRIBE THE PROBLEM:

The script seems to miss the alternate storyline name/arc information for
comic books that have it.  

WHAT STEPS WILL REPRODUCE THIS PROBLEM? (Please include the exact name of
the eComic book that you were trying to scrape, if possible.)
1. Try scraping "The Uncanny X-men" #376.
2. Note that there should be some addition story arc info (its there on
comicvine.)

WHAT VERSION OF COMICVINESCRAPER ARE YOU USING?
1.0.8


PLEASE PROVIDE ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THAT MAY BE OF USE

A quick glance at the script output suggests that there is some kind of a
problem with the way the script forms its query to the comicvine
database...it looks like the database is returning *no* alternate title/arc
information, not that we are mishandling that info once we get it.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 20 Feb 2010 at 4:17

Trim scraped texts

DESCRIBE THE PROBLEM:

the editors of ComicRack always trim strings. So if the scraper adds strings 
with spaces at the end, opening an eComic in an editor, making no change and 
hitting OK leads to a modification of the file (displays update star, writes 
stuff to zip files etc.)

WHAT VERSION OF COMICVINESCRAPER ARE YOU USING?

1.0.1

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 6 Feb 2010 at 12:58

Save window positions

It would be nice if Comic Vine Scraper automatically saved your previous
window positions (and possibly sizes, too).   

Most users will almost unconsciously move the script windows around to get
them set up how they like them.   It's almost like setting an unintentional
user preference for window positions.   The script should remember that
preference.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 12 Feb 2010 at 5:25

Duplicate entry in the ComicRack package manager

DESCRIBE THE PROBLEM:
The ComicRack package manager created a folder named "Comic Vine Scraper" 
to store the script in. However the script created a folder named 
"ComicVineScraper" to store the cache files. This extra folder creates a 
duplicate entry in the ComicRack package manger.

WHAT STEPS WILL REPRODUCE THIS PROBLEM? (Please include the exact name of
the eComic book that you were trying to scrape, if possible.)
1. Installing Comic Vine Scraper with the package manager

WHAT VERSION OF COMICVINESCRAPER ARE YOU USING?
1.01

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 5 Feb 2010 at 3:52

Notes and Tags should append data when possible

The "Tag" and "Notes" fields in scraped comic books do not come from the
Comic Vine database, therefore there is never any ComicVine metadata to
"sync" to when updating these fields.   Furthermore, these fields often
contain data that the user has entered.

Therefore, when updating these values, we should append the CVDB identifier
to the existing data when possible, rather than overwrite the old data
completely.

See here:

http://comicrack.cyolito.com/user-forum/13-scripts/5238-comicvinescraper-an-impo
rtcomicvineinfo-clone?limit=6&start=180#5657

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 27 Feb 2010 at 6:40

Unexpected error occurred: scrape cancelled

DESCRIBE THE PROBLEM:
An "Unexpected error occurred: scrape cancelled" error sometimes osccurs,
usually when scraping comics with large number of issues, like those in
continuity from, say, 1950s or 1960s. However, this is not always reproducible.


WHAT STEPS WILL REPRODUCE THIS PROBLEM? (Please include the exact name of
the eComic book that you were trying to scrape, if possible.)
1. The Amazing Spider-man
2. Uncle Scrooge
3.


WHAT VERSION OF COMICVINESCRAPER ARE YOU USING?

1.0.6

PLEASE PROVIDE ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THAT MAY BE OF USE

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 19 Feb 2010 at 1:56

Attachments:

• unexpected

Support for Anime-Vice database.

On the surface, it seems like it would be pretty easy to extend the scraper
so that it supports the "Anime Vice" database, which would allow people to
use the script with their manga collections.

The api seems like it would be identical to the comic vine api that we
already use, since anime vice is a sister site to comic vine.   

Unfortunately, anime vice does not yet allow web access to their database
the way comic vine does.  So this feature will have to wait until the anime
vice database is available over the web.  :(

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 7 Feb 2010 at 8:41

Skip month / year data scrape overwrite if ComicVine returns value of "0"

Many times a file will already have the date & month value stored in the
filename.  if comic rack has teh data and comicvine does not, the scrape
will often return a value of "0" which corresponds to ComicVine's non-data.
 it would be nice that if comicvine is going to return a zero, that we
preserve the existing data as "0" is more wrong than anything in the filename.

In instances where comicvine returns a different value, we should use the
comicvine data for consistency.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 23 Feb 2010 at 4:21

Error in saving config

DESCRIBE THE PROBLEM:

In the config dialog, if all the options are unchecked except "overwrite
existing values" and the config is saved, next time the dialog box
automatically unchecks every option except "convert imprints to
publisher/imprint type".

WHAT STEPS WILL REPRODUCE THIS PROBLEM? (Please include the exact name of
the eComic book that you were trying to scrape, if possible.)

the bug is not comic-specific


WHAT VERSION OF COMICVINESCRAPER ARE YOU USING?

1.0.9

PLEASE PROVIDE ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THAT MAY BE OF USE

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 21 Feb 2010 at 4:12

Give option to rename issue for comicvine search if search returns no results

If Comicvine doesn't find a match on a name search, I would like instead of
the script telling you that it can't find it. that it prompts you to alter
the name so it can search again..have this logic repeat until you hit skip.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 9 Feb 2010 at 5:50

Scraper not scraping creator info.

DESCRIBE THE PROBLEM:

ComicScraper not pulling in penciller & inker on series even though it is
listed on CV website.  The rest of the scrape works fine however, no error.

I have two theories:

1) The listing doesn't have a writer..so maybe that's the issue

or

2) Both pencils and inks are by John Byrne and maybe the script doesn't
like when a creator has multiple tasks



WHAT VERSION OF COMICVINESCRAPER ARE YOU USING?

1.0.12



PLEASE PROVIDE ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THAT MAY BE OF USE

Series in Question OMAC: One Man Army Corps V1991

http://www.comicvine.com/omac-one-man-army-corps-/37-35067/

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 1 Mar 2010 at 9:16

New Issues/Series covers display methodology

Perhaps a better way to do this process is to scrap both the Display Series
& Display Issues options altogether and change it to an option that is a
"Cover match validation".

If you choose this option the script will run as normal, but before you
accept the value for a particular issue you will be presented with a cover
pulled from comicvine and can either choose to accept the match or cycle
back and search again.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 9 Feb 2010 at 5:53

Settings / Cache in wrong folder

DESCRIBE THE PROBLEM:

2nd folder in scripts directory named "ComicVineScraper"

WHAT STEPS WILL REPRODUCE THIS PROBLEM? (Please include the exact name of
the eComic book that you were trying to scrape, if possible.)
1. Install ComicVineScraper with the ComicRack package installer.
2. Do some Scraping
3. Open the scripts folder and/or ComicRack package manager and you see a 
second folder named "ComicVineScraper"

WHAT VERSION OF COMICVINESCRAPER ARE YOU USING?

1.0.1

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 7 Feb 2010 at 11:03

• Merged into: #2

No progress bar before Series Dialog

There is an annoying gap between when you choose a series with the Series
dialog, and when the Issue dialog appear.  Quite a lot of downloading can
happen at this time, so a progress bar of some sort at this point would be
helpful!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 10 Feb 2010 at 4:30

Ignore previous tags and scrapes

It would be useful to have a setting that would allow you to ignore
previous tags and scrapes when scraping a comic.  This would be especially
helpful if you accidentally scrape a comic (or series of comics) using the
wrong series.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 7 Feb 2010 at 8:31

Pull volume data from title

Currently comicvine scraper populates the volume field in Comic Rack with a
value on comicvine.com that corresponds to the start year for a particular
comic:

i.e:  Superman V1939,  Fantastic Four V1961

Some users of ComicRack would rather have the volume field populated with
Vol. 1 Vol. 2, etc.

Currently ComiVine occasionally will call the title of a Series in such a
way that the Volume is included in the name.  

ie:  Daredevil Vol. 2

http://www.comicvine.com/daredevil-vol-2/49-6209/


Users are requesting that in these instances have the scraper populate the
volume field with the Vol. 2 info that resides in the title field and
ignore the start date (in the example of daredevil vol 2 this is 1998).

I think this should be a toogle option in the config, since some users
prefer using the start date as the volume as the script currently works.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 9 Feb 2010 at 5:59

Unexpected Error when Scraping Comics with non-integer Issue number.

DESCRIBE THE PROBLEM:

If you scrape a comic book that has a non-integer Issue number, like "Issue
0.5", the script crashes with the unexpected error dialog.

WHAT STEPS WILL REPRODUCE THIS PROBLEM? (Please include the exact name of
the eComic book that you were trying to scrape, if possible.)

1. Scrape "Wizard Magazine"
2. When you get to the "Issues" dialog, it crashes, because it contains
issues 200.50.  (??)



WHAT VERSION OF COMICVINESCRAPER ARE YOU USING?
1.0.8

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 20 Feb 2010 at 8:55

Add option to ignore blank values from ComicVine

Add an option (tied to the "Overwrite existing data" option) that stops the
scraper from overwriting existing non-blank comic book data with blank data
from comicvine.

Something like this:

http://comicrack.cyolito.com/user-forum/13-scripts/5238-comicvinescraper-an-impo
rtcomicvineinfo-clone?limit=6&start=156#5583

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 23 Feb 2010 at 9:03

Incorrect issue counts in series dialog

Hi,

I've noticed some series are listed with the incorrect number of issues. For 
example Warlock (2009) is listed as having 9 issues, while on comicvine 
(http://www.comicvine.com/warlord/49-7570/) 11 issues are present, and 
correctly downloaded from the script, thus I could update my #11 info.

perezmu!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 28 Feb 2010 at 6:52

Scraper unexpected error on comics with invalid images at Comicvine

DESCRIBE THE PROBLEM:

Unexpected error on scrape involving issues within a series where the image
at CV is invalid


WHAT VERSION OF COMICVINESCRAPER ARE YOU USING?

1.0.10


PLEASE PROVIDE ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THAT MAY BE OF USE

http://www.comicvine.com/golden-age-men-of-mystery/49-5822/

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 25 Feb 2010 at 2:51

Attachments:

• [golden-age men of mystery](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/comic-vine-scraper/issue-41/comment-0/golden-age men of mystery)

Exception Error: Non-attributable issue within Series

DESCRIBE THE PROBLEM:

Turok, Son of Stone (Gold Key) crashes due to an issue I believe that they
have cataloged without any attributes other than a cover.




WHAT VERSION OF COMICVINESCRAPER ARE YOU USING?

 1.0.11


PLEASE PROVIDE ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THAT MAY BE OF USE

Series:
http://www.comicvine.com/turok-son-of-stone/49-2101/

Offending issue:
http://www.comicvine.com/turok-son-of-stone-/37-139604/

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 26 Feb 2010 at 6:03

Attachments:

• turok

Commas in ComicVine data

DESCRIBE THE PROBLEM:

ComicVine data can contain commas in people's names (i.e. John Ramito, Jr.)
 But ComicRack has 8 metadata fields that treat commas as separators:

characters, writer, penciller, inker, colorist, letterer, cover artist, and
editor.

So when "John Ramito, Jr" is added to one of those fields, ComicRack
interprets it as TWO entries, "John Ramito" and "Jr".   The only way to
solve this problem (without changing ComicRack or ComicVine) is to strip
out all commas from all data that is being put into any of those fields.

So, "John Ramito, Jr" will be stored as "John Ramito Jr" instead.

WHAT VERSION OF COMICVINESCRAPER ARE YOU USING?

This problem exists in all version of CVS prior to and including 1.0.11.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 28 Feb 2010 at 9:15

Script should report what it did when it finishes.

Right now, the scraper will quietly skip over comic books that it has a
problem with (e.g. ones that can't be found on the comicvine database.)

It would be better if the script finished with a little report of what it
actually did.  So instead of ending with a dialog reading:

"The scrape completed successfully."

it would be way better if it finished with something like:

"Scraped new details for 12 comics.
 Details were not available for 3 comics."

That way, at least you'd know that information couldn't be found for some
of the comics you just tried to scrape.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 20 Feb 2010 at 2:22

Clicking X does not cancel script

From:
http://comicrack.cyolito.com/user-forum/13-scripts/5238-comicvinescraper-an-impo
rtcomicvineinfo-clone?limit=6&start=24#5286

DESCRIBE THE PROBLEM:

If I click any [x] on the windows, the script should terminates and not
continue to run in the background.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 5 Feb 2010 at 11:02

Add back button to g return to series select.

Please enter a description of your proposed enhancement here.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 12 Feb 2010 at 2:49

• Merged into: #5

Keyboard shortcut

Is there a way to get a keyboard shortcut added in?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 12 Feb 2010 at 12:27

Load images on a need-to-show basis in the Series dialog

The "Issue Choosing" dialog loads cover images as they are needed, rather
than pre-loading them all before displaying the dialog.

The "Series Choosing" dialog doesn't, but I don't see why I couldn't.  That
would probably make the script in general seem much snappier, and it would
require less resources from Comic Vine.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 8 Feb 2010 at 4:23

Increase size of cover image.

Add a way to change the default size of the cover pulled from my file.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 12 Feb 2010 at 2:46

Add "editor" hook

From:

http://comicrack.cyolito.com/user-forum/13-scripts/5238-comicvinescraper-an-impo
rtcomicvineinfo-clone?limit=6&start=90#5403

-------------

An easy request for the short term. It would be cool if you could change the

#@Hook Books

in comicvine.py to

#@Hook Books, Editor

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 10 Feb 2010 at 7:45

name 'ComicVineScraper' is not defined

DESCRIBE THE PROBLEM:



WHAT STEPS WILL REPRODUCE THIS PROBLEM? (Please include the exact name of
the eComic book that you were trying to scrape, if possible.)
1. Trying to scrape any book
2. As soon as I click on ComicVineScraper from contextual menu, or from
GetInfo window, the error immediately appears.
3.


WHAT VERSION OF COMICVINESCRAPER ARE YOU USING?

1.0.10

PLEASE PROVIDE ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THAT MAY BE OF USE

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 24 Feb 2010 at 6:55

Rows are unnecessarily resizable

Please enter a description of your proposed enhancement here.

The tables in the "Series" and "Issues" windows have resizable rows.   This
serves no useful purpose, and it makes it harder to select individual rows
with the mouse (since you end up resizing a row instead of selecting it if
you click too close to it's top or bottom edge.

We should consider disabling the resizability of rows in these tables.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 18 Feb 2010 at 5:18

Pressing enter on series or issue selection screen - unwanted behavior

DESCRIBE THE PROBLEM:
Pressing the enter key on the issue or series selection window moves the 
selection to the next row instead of continuing the script.

WHAT STEPS WILL REPRODUCE THIS PROBLEM? (Please include the exact name of
the eComic book that you were trying to scrape, if possible.)

Scrape any eComic that shows multiple issues or series.

WHAT VERSION OF COMICVINESCRAPER ARE YOU USING?
1.0.4

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 10 Feb 2010 at 4:25

Scrape crashes if bad CVDB tag

DESCRIBE THE PROBLEM:

When you scrape a comic book that has been scraped before, the scraper
reads the comicvine ID for that comic out of the "Notes" and "Tags" fields
in that comic book.

But if the id in those fields is wrong (i.e. an invalid number) then the
script crashes.  (This can only happen if the user goes in and changes the
number by hand after a scrape, but still...)

Instead, the script should simply revert to its normal behaviour for an
untagged comic book if that ID ever happens to be invalid.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 27 Feb 2010 at 6:50

• Merged into: #58

Scraper hangs when SERIES thumbnail is not selected.

This bug report is from the ComicRack forums:

http://comicrack.cyolito.com/user-forum/13-scripts/5238-comicvinescraper-an-impo
rtcomicvineinfo-clone?limit=6&start=18#5283

--------

Okay time for a bug (which I also have with perezemu's script).


If I use the specify series name and rename a title that I know won't be
recognized such as:

197606 Warlock

and I delete out the date stuff from the front, if I don't also have the
show SERIES thumbnail option selected in the config the script loses focus
and hangs both the script and comicvine itself.

If I have the series thumbnail option selected the script properly goes to
download the covers for the various series and I can go on my merry way.

It seems having that extra pop-up where the download covers occurs keeps
comicvine from choking.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 5 Feb 2010 at 5:03

Memory Leak

From:
http://comicrack.cyolito.com/user-forum/13-scripts/5238-comicvinescraper-an-impo
rtcomicvineinfo-clone?limit=6&start=24#5286

DESCRIBE THE PROBLEM:

Please dispose cover images with a call to .Dispose(). I ran the script
some time and had a memory consumption of 1.8 GB - god bless 64 bit

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 5 Feb 2010 at 10:51

Integrated GUI

from cYo:

My toss is:
I would like to have one integrated GUI and not all the windows popping up 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 9 Feb 2010 at 5:48

Scraper mysteriously hangs sometimes.

DESCRIBE THE PROBLEM:

ComicVineScraper occasionally freezes part way through scraping some comic
book details.


WHAT STEPS WILL REPRODUCE THIS PROBLEM? 

There is no specific example that causes this problem to occur.  It happens
more or less randomly while using ComicVineScraper normally.


WHAT VERSION OF COMICVINESCRAPER ARE YOU USING? 

1.0.1


PLEASE PROVIDE ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THAT MAY BE OF USE

This bug is probably caused by the ComicVine database getting too busy. 
Perhaps if ComicVineScraper doesn't get an response back from ComicVine in
a timely fashion, this causes it to get into a bad state, and maybe hang?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 4 Feb 2010 at 5:21

Better error message when Comic Vine site is down.

Right now, the script just gives a generic error message if you try to run
it when the comic vine website is non-responsive.  

It would be better if the script gave a more specific error message in this
situation, so that users would know that the script is not broken and they
should just try again later.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 1 Mar 2010 at 6:24

Show / Hide checkbox in Select Issue window causes fatal error

the show / hide dialog on the display issues is currently broken in 1.0.4

If you uncheck it the covers do not go away and it gives an error if you
click on any of the issues after unchecking the box. I've also had it hang
ComicRack  You also cannot save teh value for future searches due to the
hanging.

report on comcvine forum:

http://comicrack.cyolito.com/user-forum/13-scripts/5238-comicvinescraper-an-impo
rtcomicvineinfo-clone?limit=6&start=72#5374

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 9 Feb 2010 at 6:33

Overwrite existing values doesn't replace with blanks

From here:
http://comicrack.cyolito.com/user-forum/13-scripts/5238-comicvinescraper-an-impo
rtcomicvineinfo-clone?limit=6&start=24#5286

DESCRIBE THE PROBLEM:

If I've checked "overwrite existing values" it would be nice to also clear
values not defined in comicvine. Otherwise you can end up with a mixture of
two datasets.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 5 Feb 2010 at 11:06

Script crashes when getting info on certain titles.

DESCRIBE THE PROBLEM:
Script crashes when trying to import info for a title. I usually just have
Characters and Summary selected.


WHAT STEPS WILL REPRODUCE THIS PROBLEM? (Please include the exact name of
the eComic book that you were trying to scrape, if possible.)
1. Power Pack (all volumes)
2.
3.


WHAT VERSION OF COMICVINESCRAPER ARE YOU USING?
1.0.9


PLEASE PROVIDE ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THAT MAY BE OF USE
No crash with 1.0.8

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 21 Feb 2010 at 2:23

Attachments:

• [New Power Pack.log](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/comic-vine-scraper/issue-33/comment-0/New Power Pack.log)

All scrapes now fail!

DESCRIBE THE PROBLEM:

Sometime on Feb 22, something changed with the data that comicvine returns
to the script.  Now all access to comicvine fails!


WHAT VERSION OF COMICVINESCRAPER ARE YOU USING?

1.0.10

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 23 Feb 2010 at 6:40

Script crashes on "Young Heroes in Love"

DESCRIBE THE PROBLEM:

The script crashes when reading this series.  See here:

http://comicrack.cyolito.com/user-forum/13-scripts/5238-comicvinescraper-an-impo
rtcomicvineinfo-clone?limit=6&start=186#5691


WHAT VERSION OF COMICVINESCRAPER ARE YOU USING?
1.0.11

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 27 Feb 2010 at 9:25

Attachments:

• [Young Heroes in Love.txt](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/comic-vine-scraper/issue-45/comment-0/Young Heroes in Love.txt)

Display number of issues in series selection

It would be nice if each series had the number of issues that comicvine has 
cataloged displayed in the series selection window. It would make it easier 
to find a wanted series if multiple series or volumes are found.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 10 Feb 2010 at 4:33