Skiski

Hi,

I've tried using the API today to add the new comics I've bought to my collection but the site seems to be down. Are you doing something to the API? Or has my IP been ban? I've made my own comic book collection manager in python, and I haven't used it since a month or so.

So I don't know why my IP would be blocked.

I've waited a couple of hours before writing, but I just want to know, if it is possible, how long the API will be down.

Thanks.Edit: Ok, it's back and everything seems to work.

I've not much time to spend on it now, but sometime, i'll try to do a proper windows release.

Maybe if you launch it from a terminal, and tell me what the error messages are, i'll be able to fix it.

Thanks for your comment anyway.

Hi,

I've already talked about my comics manager made in python using the comicvine api. As requested by another user, I'm releasing the sources.

I've tested under linux and python 2.7. I don't know how it may work under windows.

It's in french but if you don't understand how to use it, let me know.

It's there:

http://stockage.janviercommelemois.fr/stockage/comics-manager/comics-manager.tar.gz

I hope it will be useful.

To launch it you need to execute gui.py.

Ok, thanks. I've edited a few comics, either by looking at the cover if the date was on it (Tom strong for example) or by using other sources when the date for the other issues were similar. But if there is a doubt, I don't touch it.

@aztek_the_lost: The problem is that sometimes, dates on CV are inaccurate. I'm using the CV api for a software I'm programming to manage my collection of comics. I use the cover dates to sort the comics in a same volume since sometimes there is some strange renumbering or for the 1/2 issues.

When the dates are inaccurate, the sorting is quite strange. For example, for Deadpool Max, I get this: 1-8,10,9,11-12

It is because, the cover dates in the database are:

#8: July 2011 ; #9: Aug 2011 ; #10: July 27 2011 ; #11: Oct 2011

The date for issue 10 is probably wrong.

Hence I'm looking for a way to find the correct date to update the database.

Hi,

I've noticed a few incorrect cover date in the database. Most of my comics are in boxes at my dad's house, hence I cannot look at them to find the correct cover date. I've found a website (http://www.comicbookdb.com) that provides such dates but I don't know how reliable those dates are.

I was wondering if it was possible to use the diamond code but it seems that it is highly unreliable, since some comics that are solicited in 2 consecutive months are shipped with covers dates a few months apart...

So, is there a reliable way to find those dates without the comics ?

Thanks

I've got the same problem with firefox on fedora 13. And the API isn't working either.

Hi,
 
After a few month without working on it, I've decided to finish my manager. It is now "usable". It is written in Python using wxPython. I use the ComicVine API to obtain the informations.    

It's perfectly clear.
 
I may use this solution because I've discovered that the issues in a volume are not necessary in chronological order. For my application, to avoid to download every details of every issue, I only download the informations of the first 10, then if I need I go to the 10 following, and so on. But if they are not in chronological order, it's less interesting...
 
Having the number of the issues in the volume page would be so useful for everyone.
 

I have the same problem.
 
For the moment, I do exactly as you and I save the obtained data, so I don't have to query multiple times for the same issue. But it is not a very nice solution.