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Old 08-14-2010, 07:23 PM   #2446
Starson17
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Originally Posted by soothsayer View Post
is there anyway to do this more simply?
That was one way to scrape the image from a page that has that image. It's more or less guaranteed to have the image you want. If you don't want to scrape it, what do you want to do? Do you just want to build the URL from the current date? Will the current date produce a valid URL in all cases?

When I want to do something like build the URL, I usually scrape the text for the year/month/day off of the pages I'm scraping to build the ebook. Do you already have the year/month/day text you need to construct the URL?
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