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DOSAGE(1) User Commands DOSAGE(1)

NAME

dosage - comic strip downloader and archiver

DESCRIPTION

usage: dosage [-h] [-v] [-n NUMSTRIPS] [-a] [-c] [-b PATH] [--baseurl PATH]

[-l] [--singlelist] [--version] [--vote] [-m] [-t] [-o {html,json,rss}] [--no-downscale] [-p PARALLEL] [--adult] [--allow-multiple] [comic ...]

A comic downloader and archiver.

positional arguments:

comic module name (including case insensitive substrings)

options:

show this help message and exit
provides verbose output, use multiple times for more verbosity
traverse and retrieve the given number of comic strips; use --all to retrieve all comic strips
traverse and retrieve all comic strips
traverse and retrieve comic strips until an existing one is found
set the path to create invidivual comic directories in, default is Comics
the base URL of your comics directory (for RSS, HTML, etc.); this should correspond to --base-path
list available comic modules
list available comic modules in a single column list
display the version number
vote for the selected comics
display help for comic modules
print timestamps for all output at any info level
sets output handlers for downloaded comics
prevent downscaling when using html or rss handler
fetch comics in parallel. Specify the number of connections
confirms that you are old enough to view adult content
allows multiple instances to run at the same time. Use if you know what you are doing.

EXAMPLES List available comics:

dosage -l

Get the latest comic of for example CalvinAndHobbes and save it in the "Comics" directory:

dosage CalvinAndHobbes

If you already have downloaded several comics and want to get the latest strips of all of them:

dosage --continue @

User plugin directory: /home/tchet/.local/share/dosage/plugins

Using Python 3.11.6 (CPython) on Linux-6.5.0-4-amd64-x86_64-with-glibc2.37 Copyright © 2004-2008 Tristan Seligmann and Jonathan Jacobs Copyright © 2012-2014 Bastian Kleineidam Copyright © 2015-2020 Tobias Gruetzmacher Copyright © 2019-2020 Daniel Ring

dosage comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Look at the file `COPYING' within this distribution. For support see https://github.com/webcomics/dosage/issues

SEE ALSO

The full documentation for dosage is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and dosage programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info dosage

should give you access to the complete manual.

December 2023 dosage 3.0