I was recently trying to scrape a Japanese static HTML website with Python 3, requests, and Beautiful Soup. The website was a .jp-site, but the text appeared to be in English. DevTools also confirmed that the HTML markup was in…
Google Play Music will be terminated at the end of 2020 in favor of YouTube Music. Or at least that is the tone from Google in the last few weeks. Google Play Music is a music streaming service like Spotify…
Beautiful Soup is a Python library for extracting data from HTML and XML files. If you have ever tried to scrape content from webpages you would know that it can be very tedious without the right tools. Especially if you…
Often, when I write about command line-based software or scripting I will tell you to “add a software to PATH“. But what does exactly that mean? PATH is one of Windows environment variables. If you want to run scripts or…
What is Resilio Sync? Resilio Sync is a free file/folder sync software that allows you to sync folders between different devices. Private use is free while business users need a 30$ commercial license. Let’s say you want to share a…
Got a file with some HTML you want to remove? All you need to do is parse the file with a Python script, using the Python library BeautifulSoup. If that sounds unfamiliar to you, you should watch Corey Schafers beginner…
Web Scraping [web skreɪptɪŋ] – The extraction and copying of data from a website into a structured format using a computer program. – Dictionary.com, 2019 In this example, we will scrape content from the web page Scrape This Site: …
What is youtube-dl? Youtube-dl is a command-line tool that can download videos from multiple websites including Youtube. It can also download audio, subtitles, thumbnails, metadata, and a lot more. It requires the Python 2.6, 2.7, or 3.2+, and it is…
One of the most frustrating things about Firefox compared to Chrome is that syncing does not actually sync all settings. In fact, I haven’t even seen any Chromium browser other than Chrome that has actually got this to work. This…
Forget about exporting data to CSV. 🥱 If you are using PowerShell a lot and want to filter, freezing top rows, adding formulas, and so on – this is what you need! 😎 The module is called ImportExcel and is…
The easiest way to use a Google font in a self-hosted WordPress theme is probably to use a CDN link. That is: you don’t download and host the fonts yourself, but you use a “CDN link” to a Google server…
The problem – Cloning doens’t help If you clone or copy a VM in VMware Workstation Pro, the source files of the VM will not be renamed accordingly. This is oly a “cosmetic” problem, but for some of us, even…