A Julia package for retrieving data from the XKCD webcomic: xkcd.com.
Use the Comic struct to retrieve a comic's metadata.
The comic function retrieves the comic's data and optionally opens the image in a browser.
using XKCD
julia> Comic(552)Comic
{
"month": "3",
"num": 552,
"link": "",
"year": "2009",
"news": "",
"safe_title": "Correlation",
"transcript": "[[A man is talking to a woman]]\nMan: I used to think correlation implied causation.\nMan: Then I took a statistics class. Now I don't.\nWoman: Sounds like the class helped.\nMan: Well, maybe.\n{{Title text: Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'.}}",
"alt": "Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'.",
"img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/correlation.png",
"title": "Correlation",
"day": "6"
}
rand(Comic)