xkcd_searchtool

a search engine for XKCD

What is it?

• This tool can crawling the comic transcripts from XKCD.com
• Users can search a comic using key words written in a transcript and Get the most 5 relevant comic urls so they can use it to get to the comic they want.

How to use it?

You should use this tool in your command line.

There will be two kinds of args you need to care about.

• -u true (or false) : default is true, it's used for control the tool of updating index or not.
• -kw (string): you need to type in your keywords for searching.(separited with space, need to be surround with "" )

Example in my PC

You can download the exe in Release Page.

PS C:\Users\wgg96\Desktop> .\xkcd_searchtool.exe -kw="sheep"
start to update index
update finished
start to search
Search Result:
1: https://xkcd.com/571/info.0.json
print finished bye~

You can go to web browser to search the url and get what you want ~~

Have fun with it~