Saving images and content while browsing the web has been an ongoing activity for me since forever.
But for some reason, on the GoComics pages, saving any comic is extremely painful.
This bookmarklet helps in extracting the image on their site. After saving this bookmarklet, go to any GoComics page and tap on this bookmarklet.
Drag and drop the link below to your bookmarks bar to use the bookmarklet.
GoComics Extract { const linkTag = document.querySelector('link[rel="preload"][as="image"]'); if (linkTag) { const imagesrcset = linkTag.getAttribute('imagesrcset'); if (imagesrcset) { const srcsetEntries = imagesrcset.split(','); const lastEntry = srcsetEntries[srcsetEntries.length - 1].trim(); const imageUrl = lastEntry.split(' ')[0]; const link = document.createElement('a'); link.href = imageUrl; link.download = 'comic.gif'; document.body.appendChild(link); link.click(); } else { alert('No imagesrcset attribute found on the link tag!'); } } else { alert('No link tag found with rel="preload" and as="image"!'); } })();){kind=link}
You can try it on this Calvin and Hobbes strip.
Mobile users might not be able to drag and drop the link to their bookmarks bar. Instead, you can do this -
1. Copy the code by tapping the button below.
2. Create a new bookmark on your mobile browser, give it a title like 'GoComics Extract' and paste the code in the URL of the bookmark.
3. Whenever you want to extract the comic from a GoComics page, go and tap on this bookmark.