Resume support

[za3k]

Right now, when I download a comic with --all, it often fails midway for various reasons. It would be nice to have --all and -N support resuming from a specific URL, or a previous failed download, so re-running with --all doesn't traverse the entire website up to that point.

[za3k]

OK, thought about this a little more, and maybe what's wanted even more is better retry support to begin with (independent of the plugin).

[TobiX]

Currently, dosage doesn't keep any state between runs. You can manually resume from a specific comic by using the comicname:id syntax (see dosage -m xkcd for the exact index syntax per comic). Re-runnig with -a always traverses the whole comic site, without re-downloading the image files.

Resuming from an arbitrary point is on my todo list, but pretty hard with dosage's current design...

[DavidAccola]

OK, thought about this a little more, and maybe what's wanted even more is better retry support to begin with (independent of the plugin).

What plugin is this talking about? I'm having some issues with a site giving sporadic 500s, but no issue later. If there's a way to make dosage retry I'm interested.

I'm also curious to know what the most efficient way to use the comicname:id syntax to get a list of specific strips would be. (i.e. the list I've compiled of strips I got 500s on.)

[za3k]

Sorry, it's been five years since I reported this. I don't even remember what dosage is any more.

[TobiX]

@DavidAccola Please open a new issue instead of hijacking age-old issues - I'm tracking the general idea of "resuming" as issue #261 (for the record, dosage has a bit of "retrying" logic already, since it is build on python requests, but nothing on a more "global" scale)

@za3k Sorry for the noise, closing the issue.