The code is a Python script to download a series of comics from https://www.gocomics.com/ for a specified date range and save them as gif files in a specified folder. As an example Garfield comics.
- The code is a script to download a series of comic strips for a specified date range and save them as gif files in a specified folder.
- The script uses the requests library to make GET requests to a website to retrieve the URLs of the comic strips and their images.
- The BeautifulSoup library is used to parse the HTML content of the website and extract the URLs of the comic strips.
- The datetime and timedelta modules are used to generate a range of dates for which the comic strips need to be downloaded.
- The script uses the threading module to download the comic strips in parallel, thus speeding up the process.
- The tqdm library is used to display a progress bar to indicate the download progress.