DailyDilbert

[lavolp3]

I know there is a dailyxkcd module which of course works great in the mirror since it is b/w by nature.

Would there also be a possibility to build a Daily Dilbert.
Here in Germany I’d also be interested in a Daily Nichtlustig.

Was thinking about catching the daily picture somehow and including it into an iframe. But I’m not good at this and someone surely knows a more elegant way :-)

Looking forward to your ideas!

[kjb085]

I’m currently working on a DailyDilbert module. I threw together a web scraper for it already, it’s just a matter of putting together the actual module component of it. I was trying to think if there was a simple way to build a web scraping module to make it agnostic of the web site, but the only solutions I could come up with are more time intensive than I wish to spend on this. That being said, but you could probably modify the code to accommodate the other comic site you’re looking for once I publish MMM-DailyDilbert.

[lavolp3]

Great news!

Thanks, I’m looking forward to it!
A website agnostic module may not be worth the work. I was only looking for DailyDilbert, dailyxkcd already exists.

[Loengard]

I know this topic is quite old, but I was trying to change the Dilbert module to work with the Garfield daily comic (see https://garfield.com/comic or RSS at https://www.comicsrss.com/preview/garfield). But I can’t for the life of me figure out how to do this (complete newbie).

Any ideas or suggestions?

[Maximillium]

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[Maximillium]

Hi! Is there anyone that could tell me how to shrink the size of the DailyDilbert comic?

[lavolp3]

@maximillium I did it like this but had to search for a while as well.

You can put this in your custom.css and use whatever value you prefer

.MMM-DailyDilbert #dilbert-content {
  width: 900px;
}

A tip if you’re interested:
If you open the mirror in your browser (I’m using chrome mirror_ip:8080) and open the developer’s console with F12 you can see all the css involved (in the “styles” tab). Then you can right-click on the image and press “investigate” or whatever it’s called in english and you can see all the css affecting this picture. You can even toggle properties on/off live. Just discovered all the possibilites with this function working on this problem.

[Loengard]

Hi there - in the hope someone could point me in the right direction, any ideas on how to create a module for the daily Garfield comic?

[lavolp3]

@loengard What you would need basically is a scraping function.
One of my (too many) projects currently is to create a module like MMM-WebScraper.
However, I think it should be possible to take MMM-DailyXKCD or MMM-DailyDilbert as a start. There is a scraper included somehow, haven’t looked at the code yet.

Then you could change the basic url to the Garfield comic.

I’ll check it out as well.

[lavolp3]

@loengard Well it’s done. The changes were quite easy :-)
Try it out, it is very rough and there are several things still called “Dilbert” :-).

https://github.com/lavolp3/MMM-DailyDilbert

I think it would make sense to eventually create a “ComicStrip” module and let the user choose between Dilbert, Garfield, xkcd and what else can be created. @kjb085 was already mentioning a website agnostic module.

But I’d like to leave the decision to @andrecarlucci (or is it @kjb085?) and/or @Blastitt who have put much more work into it.