Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
DailyXKCD
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Hi!
Since new comics only come out on monday, wednesday and friday i made a slight modification (ugly hack) to your node_helper.js…
On non comic days, after getting the current comic, the node_helper will examines the num value and generate a random number between 1 and said value. It will then get the random comic and return it in the payload.
socketNotificationReceived: function(notification, payload) { var self = this; console.log("Notification: " + notification + " Payload: " + payload); if(notification === "GET_COMIC"){ var comicJsonUri = payload.config.dailyJsonUrl; var comic; var rndcomic; var rndUrl; var body; var d = new Date(); var n = d.getDay(); request(comicJsonUri, function (error, response, body) { if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) { console.log(body); if ( this.n == 1 || this.n == 3 || this.n == 5 ) { self.sendSocketNotification("COMIC", JSON.parse(body)); } else { this.comic = JSON.parse(body); this.rndcomic = Math.floor((Math.random() * this.comic.num) + 1); this.rndUrl = "http://xkcd.com/" + this.rndcomic + "/info.0.json"; request(this.rndUrl, function (error, response, body) { if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) { console.log(body); self.sendSocketNotification("COMIC", JSON.parse(body)); } }); } } }); } },
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I like it! Put in a pull request if you want it in the official repo. Also maybe add a config option to turn the feature off (if someone just wants to see new comics only)?
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This is awesome! Thanks for making this!!
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Beautiful little module! I was wondering though, is it possible to adjust the size of the comic? I found it quite big for my mirror. Also, did @RedNax modification get into the module? Tried to just copy-paste it, but didn’t get it to work… (Hope I’m posting in the correct thread for this :P)
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@Nexxic In the only pull request made, the author retracted it. I’ve had a couple people say they were working on a pull request for fixing the size of the larger comics, but nothing’s come of it yet. I’m too busy at the moment, otherwise I would do it myself.
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Submitted another pull request just now…
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I modified the module, so that it vertically scrolls through the comic. This might be a good option to limit the size, but also be able to see the whole comic (usually the comics have a max. width of 800px, but can be quite high, from time to time).
It worked pretty well for this recent one. If you guys want, I can make a pull request.
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@Jopyth Yes please!
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