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HTTP Basic Access Authentication with Python requests library

If you are using the Python library requests for web scraping, testing or authentication, you might get stuck on different authentication types from time to time. A little less common authentication nowadays is HTTP Basic Access Authentication which you often…

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2020-03-11

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Remove HTML from files with Python

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…

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2019-12-31

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pip install directly from Github with Python 3

A lot of python libraries are more often updated on GitHub than in the “Python Package Index”. So if you want to get the latest of the greatest Python repository you should install Python packages directly from Github instead of PyPi. First, you need to install Git and then add it to PATH, if you are running Windows. Then simply install any Python package from GitHub like so: Of course, you will have to replace https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl.git with the location of your package.

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2018-04-13