Importing GCD Data

Note: GCD is now using a new schema.
The following directions won’t work for the newest data dumps. New instructions will be forthcoming.

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GCDCollector uses comic data from the Grand Comic Book Database (GCD). Unfortunately, the GCD does not currently provide programmatic access to the database. They do, however, provide the raw data. The data-dumps are available here: http://dev.comics.org/data/.

To create the offline database that is used by GCDCollector:

1. Download the most recent full-2.zip data-dump (from here) and unzip it.
2. Download the pre-compiled SQLite binaries, and unzip to the same directory.
3. Install Perl, if you don’t already have it.
4. Run the following command: perl full-2.pl | sqlite3 comix.db

The resulting database should be just under 50 MB. Copy this file to the GCDCollector installation folder.