Update mkbinder

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/mkbinder.py b/mkbinder.py
index 5bd332d..f8c64d5 100755
--- a/mkbinder.py
+++ b/mkbinder.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ from datetime import date
 # CLI arguments
 parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
 parser.add_argument('--backend', '-b', dest = 'backend', help = 'change the download backend; default: pdfkit', default = 'pdfkit', choices = ['pdfkit', 'weasyprint'])
+parser.add_argument('--force', '-f', dest = 'force', help = 'force download all links instead of only the ones that need to be updated; default: False', default = False, choices = [False, True])
 args = parser.parse_args()
 
 
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ for filename in os.listdir("Links"):
     
     try:
         os.mkdir(filename[:-4])
-    except:
+    except: # I love bad error handling
         pass
     
     try:
@@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ for filename in os.listdir("Links"):
             old_date = date.fromisoformat("1970-01-01")
         
         
-        if new_date > old_date:
+        if new_date > old_date or args.force:
             print("Downloading: " + link[:-1])
             print("Edit date: " + str(new_date))
             
@@ -58,12 +59,13 @@ for filename in os.listdir("Links"):
             # print(name)
             try:
                 # weasyprint seems faster?
+                # but seems to be broken sometimes???
                 if args.backend == 'pdfkit':
                     pdfkit.from_url(link, name)
                 else:
                     pdf = weasyprint.HTML(link).write_pdf()
                     open(name, 'wb').write(pdf)
-            except:
+            except: # Maybe should handle errors a little bit better?
                 print("Error when printing")
                 pass