proof of concept

app/main/views.py

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+import os
+from flask import render_template, session, redirect, url_for, flash, request, current_app
+from . import main
+from .forms import Ripper
+from .. import db
+from flask_login import current_user, login_required
+from ..panelrip import ripper, zipper
+
+
+accepted_methods = ['GET', 'POST']
+headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64)'}
+
+
+def download_comic_files(soup):
+    # create list for comic file links
+    comic_files = []
+
+    # set the image_folder name to the title of the comic
+    image_folder = os.path.join(current_app.config['STASH_FOLDER'], ripper.get_title(soup))
+    print(image_folder)
+
+    # append each comic link found in the bs4 response to the comic file list
+    for link in ripper.get_img_links(soup):
+        comic_files.append(link)
+
+    # download the completed comic list
+    ripper.download_img_links(comic_files, soup, current_app.config['STASH_FOLDER'])
+
+    # create a comic archive from all images in image_folder
+    zipper.create_comic_archive(ripper.get_title(soup), image_folder)
+
+
+@main.route('/', methods=accepted_methods)
+def index():
+    form = Ripper()
+
+    if form.validate_on_submit():
+        soup = ripper.get_soup_obj(form.search.data, headers)
+        download_comic_files(soup)
+        return render_template('success.html')
+
+    return render_template('index.html', form=form)