Flash Jabberwocky

[swestrup]

I know I have at least one FOAF who collects Jabberwocks, so here is a translation of the famous poem into Flash ActionScript!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Wed, 18 Aug 2004 17:20:00 EDT (-0400)
Even if you weren't terribly impressed with them, would they
still meet my minimum requirements of downloading the contents
of a website unattended and refraining from crashing (Windows 98)
until they've done that? Which would be the best, or least
objectionable of the one or two that you tried? It would be
nice to have that URL matching feature, if possible. And of
course freeware would be nice.
-Jim

[swestrup]

I've used the HTTrack Website Copier built into Spiderzilla (a website downloader that you can load as a mozilla plugin) and another called, IIRC 'black widow' or something similar. Both would meet your criteria.

As for freeware, both are, as is everything on sourceforge.

[(Anonymous)]

Sat, 21 Aug 2004 20:31:00 EDT (-0400)
I tried one called weblech, which I found at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/weblech/, and it was pretty cool.
There are some bugs somewhere, and it doesn't download my website
(http://www.geocities.com/jameswi.geo) completely before
stopping, so it doesn't quite meet my minimum requirements. It's
still pretty cool though, and looked like it would have
downloaded the whole crfh site (it was busily downloading the
comics when I finally stopped it). I found some interesting
content that I wouldn't have found myself. On my site it didn't
find and download my
http://www.geocities.com/jameswi.geo/FandSF/PAnderson/PAnderson.htm
pages, even though they are linked. It might have been a bug with
the search level, although I set it to 0 (infinite depth) -- or
maybe a problem with case sensitivity. It's an older project,
dated June 2002. I didn't get the promised GUI with the download.
It didn't stop when I pressed any key, as advertised. Sometimes I
had to help it along by pressing Enter at startup, and by
manually creating the local directory to which it copies files;
once it tried to create this itself but failed to mark it as a
folder and then couldn't download any content after that. It has
an innovative "interesting URL" field you can set, but I was
disappointed with the inherent limitations of setting the include
string for desired URLs to be downloaded -- it seems that if I
specify the comics' image URL pattern, it won't go to the
containing HTML page in the first place, and if I specify the
HTML page URL pattern, that won't match the image URL pattern.
The "interesting URL" field didn't seem to have much affect;
maybe I could have tried putting only my pattern in there and
deleting the others.

If I have more time I can try something else, like one of those
dedicated comics spiders you mentioned.
-Jim