Example of pulling recently released comics from comicvine

cv-calendarquery.py

import requests
import sys
from datetime import datetime, timedelta

def run_demo(api_key):
    headers = {"User-Agent": "Comic-Calendar-Client/1.0"}
    
    # Calculate date range: +/- 1 week rounded outward
    today = datetime.now()
    
    # Snap start back to Monday of last week
    raw_start = today - timedelta(days=7)
    start_snap = raw_start - timedelta(days=raw_start.weekday())
    
    # Snap end forward to Sunday of next week
    raw_end = today + timedelta(days=7)
    end_snap = raw_end + timedelta(days=(6 - raw_end.weekday()))
    
    start_str = start_snap.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
    end_str = end_snap.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
    
    print(f"Fetching range: {start_str} to {end_str}")

    # 1. Fetch ALL Issues (with Pagination)
    all_issues = []
    offset = 0
    url = "https://comicvine.gamespot.com/api/issues/"
    
    while True:
        params = {
            "api_key": api_key,
            "format": "json",
            "limit": 100,
            "offset": offset,
            "filter": f"store_date:{start_str}|{end_str}",
            "field_list": "issue_number,store_date,volume"
        }
        
        try:
            data = requests.get(url, params=params, headers=headers).json()
            results = data.get('results', [])
            all_issues.extend(results)
            
            total = data.get('number_of_total_results', 0)
            if len(all_issues) >= total or not results:
                break
            
            offset += 100
        except Exception as e:
            print(f"API Error: {e}")
            break

    # 2. Batch Fetch Publishers for unique volumes
    vol_ids = {str(i['volume']['id']) for i in all_issues if i.get('volume')}
    pub_map = {}

    if vol_ids:
        # ComicVine filter limit is usually 100 IDs; for a 2-week window, 
        # unique volumes rarely exceed this, so we process as one batch.
        v_url = "https://comicvine.gamespot.com/api/volumes/"
        v_params = {
            "api_key": api_key,
            "format": "json",
            "filter": f"id:{'|'.join(list(vol_ids)[:100])}",
            "field_list": "id,publisher"
        }
        v_data = requests.get(v_url, params=v_params, headers=headers).json()
        pub_map = {v['id']: v.get('publisher', {}).get('name', 'N/A') for v in v_data.get('results', [])}

    # 3. Output Results
    print(f"\n{'DATE':<12} | {'PUBLISHER':<15} | {'ISSUE'}")
    print("-" * 65)
    for i in all_issues:
        p_name = pub_map.get(i['volume']['id'], "N/A")
        v_name = i['volume'].get('name', 'Unknown')
        print(f"{i['store_date']:<12} | {p_name[:15]:<15} | {v_name} #{i['issue_number']}")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    if len(sys.argv) < 2:
        print("Usage: python3 calendarquery.py <API_KEY>")
    else:
        run_demo(sys.argv[1])