GitHub - grant/xkcd: A simple xkcd API

A simple xkcd API.

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examples

var xkcd = require('xkcd');

// Get the current xkcd
xkcd(function (data) {
  console.log(data);
});

// Get a specific xkcd
xkcd(532, function (data) {
  console.log(data);
});

response data example

{
  month: "5",
  num: 1369,
  link: "",
  year: "2014",
  news: "",
  safe_title: "TMI",
  transcript: "",
  alt: "'TMI' he whispered, gazing into the sea.",
  img: "http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/tmi.png",
  title: "TMI",
  day: "16"
}

fields

alt (String) Img alt text
day (String) The day # as a string
img (URL) Img URL
link (String) External links (may be empty)
month (String) Month number as a string
news (String) News
num (int) Id
safe_title (String) Safe title
title (String) Title
transcript (String) Transcript
year (String) Year

command line

This module can also be installed as a command line utility.

Global Installation

Usage

Usage: xkcd <command>

xkcd          open latest xkcd
xkcd latest   open latest xkcd
xkcd <num>    open xkcd by number
xkcd help     display this page

notes

xkcd 404 throws an error since there is no comic for this id.