Bulk deleting spam GitHub Issues
A short article about using GitHub's command line interface tools to bulk-delete spam issues in a repository.
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Cool DOIs in Python
A DOI (digital object identifier) is a persistent identifier used to uniquely identify various objects (usually documents or data sets). DOIs are typically presented as a link consisting of a proxy, a prefix and a suffix: for example: The proxy (here, https://doi.org/) is the location …
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A QR code generator in Django
The following code is the views.py file for the make_qr app behind this QR code generator app. The qrcode Python package generates a Pillow Image object, which is encoded in base-64 for rendering in the template, saving the need for an intermediate PNG file.
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Deleting Gmail messages by label with the Google API
Google's suite of APIs and their Python bindings can be used to delete emails automatically, saving the hassle of navigating page after page of 100 emails at a time. Setting up a Developer project, configuring OAuth access etc. is described on the Google Developers page …
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Scraping a Wikipedia table with Pandas
In my previous post I gave a short script for scraping a particular Wikipedia page for some string-based data in one table. Then the internet had some advice for me. Use pandas.read_html they said. It will be easy, they said; everything will be handled for …
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Scraping a Wikipedia table with Beautiful Soup
The Beautiful Soup Python library is an excellent way to scrape web pages for their content. I recently wanted a reasonably accurate list of official (ISO 3166-1) two-letter codes for countries, but didn't want to pay CHF 38 for the official ISO document. The ISO …
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DOI to BibTeX
The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) resolution service at doi.org exposes an API for retrieving the BibTeX markup for a reference given its DOI. The following Python 3 script takes a DOI on the command line and returns the BibTeX. For example, The code is below. …