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The go code is horrendous and needs to be refactored.

Scott Adams' controversy aside, you may agree or disagree with his views, but no matter what - Teknisk Ukeblad are jumping on the cancellation hype-train, and Dilbert is gone, starting March 13th 2023[1].
We will have to update Comicbot to support the new comic Dunce, and it will be a simple matter of fetching the URL in this format: https://www.tu.no/api/widgets/comics?name=dunce&date=2023-03-13

[1] I guess they had already queued up a few Dilbert cartoons, 'cause Comicbot found Dilbert today, even if it's not listed on the website.. 😆

• Need to make saving the comics opt-in, with path.
• Need an option to add date for downloading previous comics.
• Need an option to add webhook URL as a command-line option that overrides the environment variable.
• Change the default name of the webhook URL environment variable.
• Need an option to configure the name of the webhook URL environment variable.
• General command-line --help function

Changes were prematurely merged to the main branch, and its failing.

Roll back changes to main for now.

Starting today, the URL has a slight modification:
https://tu.no/?module=TekComics&service=image&id=dilbert&key=2023-01-25 has become https://tu.no/modules/?module=TekComics&service=image&id=dilbert&key=2023-01-25

Adjust the script accordingly - change the base URL to include /modules/.

Reimplement the XKCD counter function using countapi.xyz instead of kvdb.io.
https://countapi.xyz/

Write a simple guide for contributing to the project.

Comic Agilè is a Danish comic about all things DevOps. Can we make Comicbot work with it?

Initially, there is no "order" to the comics, apart from their numbering scheme (today's comic is #172) so keeping track of which one's have already been fetched and posted, could pose a challenge. But maybe we can keep state in a counter backend?
I found CountAPI which could work - provided we are able to configure it with a persistent domain name for namespace creation. We just need to know the number of the last comic we fetched... So, we would get the value first, compare it to whatever is on the front page of Comic Agilè, and if it's newer, fetch the comic, then update the count API with it's new number. Easy as pie!

Or could it be done EVEN simpler? Can we keep track of values in Github Actions?

Classic "works on my machine". Build fails with an error, cannot find a dependency... 🙄

https://github.com/tplive/comicbot/runs/3369559011?check_suite_focus=true#step:4:9

This comic would need the same structure as Comic Agilè, but XKCD has it's own API we can use! 😃

For the latest comic: https://xkcd.com/info.0.json
For any arbitrary comic: https://xkcd.com/614/info.0.json

A thought: To avoid double-posting, we need to keep track of the latest comic we have posted. Is it possible to use Github's API to set an environment variable? In that case, we need no outside dependency.

Adressa.no has a daily (?) Pondus strip

https://www.adressa.no/tegneserier/pondus

Figure out the pattern, implement in Comicbot.