Garfield!!

A long time ago, I discovered that Jim Davis, the author of Garfield comics, syndicates his stuff with uComics. An interesting, and probably well-known, fact is that uComics actually stores the images from a particular cartoon in a fairly friendly directory structure! At least, they do with Garfield comics. So I was able to do some back-door hacks and write a simple little script that would in essence harvest Garfield comics directly from uComics.

Apart from being able to download a year's worth at a time (any more would probably kill my computer and the web host), I also was able to create a script that would grab today's Garfield comic and display it with general navigation buttons to yesterday..or really any day since it was first begun in 1978.

Anyhow, I have been hosting this script on both my personal web server and on Brinkster. Today, I 'upgraded' my script, cloning it to a new page which is embed-friendly:

The fun of an embed page is that I can put the proper code into any webpage that accepts HTML and this will display these comics inline!

So, to embed Garfield on YOUR website/blog, simple paste the following into anything that accepts HTML (on Blogger, this is an HTML/Javascript widget).

<iframe src="http://ppsstudios.brinkster.net/TodaysGarfield_Simple.asp" frameborder=0 width=100% height=240px>Your browser does not support iframe.</iframe>


If all goes well, you should see a floating box with the comic and a few links displayed right on your page (such as the one in the footer below)!
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2 comments:

  1. UnknownTuesday, June 14, 2011

    Interesting. I just managed to hack Calvin and Hobbes too! Now to write a script for -that- :P

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  2. UnknownTuesday, June 14, 2011

    Hmm. It seems that Calvin and Hobbes only makes their comics available through the past month. Ah well. I managed to get a script working for that. I just wished enough were available so that I could get them all without waiting 10 years per round.

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