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Need to scrape a website? BeautifulSoup is your friend!
Beautiful Soup is a Python library to do screen scraping. I think it is a powerful tool which can be used in many situations. See here for examples where it is used. In this post I will show you two...
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Daily movie digest Spanish TV / Part II – rewrite in Python
To learn more Python I am making up some new scripting exercises these days. I am also rewriting some Perl scripts I made last year. Today my daily Spanish TV movie email script, discussed here:...
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A Python script to import a complete blog to plain text
In today’s post I’ll show you a script I wrote yesterday to import an entire blog based on a (XML) sitemap. It also converts the posts from html to plain text. Allthough it was merely Python practice,...
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Python script to query github code in your terminal
I was using the Advanced Search in Github the other day and thought: what if I could use this in a terminal. So I started to try out some things in Python which led to the following script. Some...
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How to search and copy Stack Overflow data without leaving Vim!
To save time and concentrate as a developer, Vim is the best place to be. But I cannot code everything from memory so I made a tool to lookup stackoverflow questions and answers without leaving Vim....
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Script to email a weekly digest of upcoming and playing movies
To keep up2date with new and upcoming movies, I wrote a Python script to send me an weekly movie digest. It queries themoviedb.org and parses the “now-playing” and “upcoming pages”, it creates the...
View ArticlePython script to clone itunes autofill feature for USB device
I never thought I would autofill my iphone with music, but I recently tried it and I actually like it. You start to appreciate more types of music. In this post a python script to do the same thing for...
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Quick and easy way to know about new books on Safari
Safari Books Online is awesome, many reasons, worth another blog post. For one thing you get to access the latest and greatest titles even early releases. You can conveniently monitor it here. However...
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Project: playing/upcoming weekly movie email (themoviedb API)
Hi again, some more coding today. My original attempt at this broke some time ago, because themoviedb’s page HTML changed. Lesson learned: rather use an API. So I rewrote this script, improving it and...
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