Provided by: dosage_2.15-3_all bug

NAME
       dosage - a comic strip downloader and archiver


SYNOPSIS
       dosage [options] module...


DESCRIPTION
       dosage  is  an application designed to keep a local mirror of specific web comics and other picture-based
       content, such as Picture Of The Day sites, with  a  variety  of  options  for  updating  and  maintaining
       collections.


OPTIONS
       -b PATH, --basepath=PATH
              Specifies a base path to put comic subdirectories. The default is Comics.

       --baseurl=PATH
              Specifies the base URL for output handlers. The default is a local file URI.

       -a, --all
              Traverses all available strips backwards from the current one.  This can be useful you want a full
              collection of a new comic strip, or update an existing one where files are missing.  Catchups  can
              start  at  a  specific  strip  by  using the index syntax, see the INDEX SYNTAX and SPECIAL SYNTAX
              sections for more information. This is useful when you missed some days and want only to  download
              the missing files.

       -c, --continue
              Same  as  --all,  but  stop  at  the first existing image file.  Useful for cron jobs that are not
              executed every day.

       -h, --help
              Output brief help information.

       -l, --list
              List available comic modules in multi-column fashion.

       --singlelist
              List available comic modules in single-column fashion.

       -m MODULE, --modulehelp=MODULE
              Output module-specific help for MODULE.

       -o OUTPUT, --output=OUTPUT
              OUTPUT may be any one of the following:

              html - Writes out an HTML file linking to the strips actually downloaded in the current run, named
              by date (ala dailystrips). The files can be found in the html directory of your Comics directory.

              rss  - Writes out an RSS feed detailing what strips were downloaded in the last 24 hours. The feed
              can be found in Comics/dailydose.xml.

              json - Write a JSON file with all download infos (URLs, images). Can be used with  other  scripts,
              eg. order-symlinks.py to add symbolic links.
       This option can be given multiple times.

       -t, --timestamps
              Print timestamps for all output at any level.

       -v, --verbose
              Increase the output level by one with each occurence.

       -V, --version
              Display the version number.

       --vote Vote  for the selected comics to tell others that you like them.  The sum of all votes for a comic
              will be displayed at the  comic  index  pages  at  http://wummel.github.io/dosage/comic-index.html
              module  At  least  one  valid  module  must  be specified. A list of valid modules can be found by
              passing the -l option. Multiple module arguments can be specified on  the  command  line.   Module
              names are case insensitive, and it is sufficient to specify a unique substring of the module name.


INDEX SYNTAX
       Instead  of  starting at the latest comic strip, an index lets dosage start at a certain strip. The index
       can be specified by appending a colon : and the index name after  the  module.  Multiple  comma-spearated
       indices can also be specified.

       The  index  name itself usually is the part of the comic strip URL that identifiess a strip, eg. a number
       or a date. The expected format is documented when using the --modulehelp option.


SPECIAL SYNTAX
       @      This expands to mean all the comics currently in your Comics directory. All other specified  comic
              module names will be ignored.

       @@     This expands to mean all the comics available to Dosage.

       INDEX SYNTAX can not be used with SPECIAL SYNTAX.


EXAMPLES
       Retrieve all Mega Tokyo comics:
              dosage -a megatokyo

       Retrieve the current comic of Cyanide and Happiness:
              dosage cyanideandhappiness

       Retrieve the current strip of all comics in your Comics directory:
              dosage @

       Vote for the comics in your Comics directory:
              dosage --vote @

       Retrieve the current strip of every comic that there is a module for:
              dosage @@

       Retrieve the Penny Arcade strip for a given index:
              dosage pennyarcade:2004-07-22

       Retrieve Calvin and Hobbes strips from a given index going backwards to the beginning.
              dosage -a calvinandhobbes:2012/07/22


ENVIRONMENT
       HTTP_PROXY
              dosage will use the specified HTTP proxy when downloading URL contents.


NOTES
       Should  retrieval  fail on any given strip dosage will attempt to retry. However the retry information is
       only outputted in the second and successive output levels.

       At the time of writing, a complete Dosage collection weighs in at around 3.0GB.


RETURN VALUE
       The return value greater than zero when

       •      a program error occurred.

       •      comics could not be found or downloaded

       •      the program run was aborted with Ctrl-C

       Else the return value is zero.


BUGS
       Users can report or view bugs, patches or feature suggestions at https://github.com/wummel/dosage/issues


AUTHORS
       Jonathan Jacobs, Tristan Seligmann, Bastian Kleineidam <bastian.kleineidam@web.de>


COPYRIGHT
       Copyright © 2004-2005 Tristan Seligmann and Jonathan Jacobs
       Copyright © 2012-2014 Bastian Kleineidam

                                                                                                       DOSAGE(1)